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Haggis
« on: October 20, 2010, 08:03:24 PM »
is disgusting.  Post your favorite haggis recipes, and how many times you were dropped on your head as a baby, because you're clearly brain damaged.








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Re: Haggis
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2010, 08:06:09 PM »
Haggis is amazing, and I was not dropped on my head as a child.

I did have a timber A-Frame fall on my head once though.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2010, 08:17:19 PM »
[Homer Simpson voice]  Ummmmmmm, Haggis......[/HSV]

I only tried to make it once.  Mrs. Scout was appalled and couldn't watch.  She tried it, though.  One bite.

It was okay.

I'll have to make the special trip to Duke of Perth and have some real Haggis.



People who don't like Haggis weren't dropped on their head as kids, they were dribbled. :P
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2010, 08:18:29 PM »
I have eaten some very good haggis in Edinburgh.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2010, 08:55:18 PM »
I have eaten some very good haggis in Edinburgh.

Or Dun Eidean  ;)
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2010, 11:47:19 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2010, 11:51:38 PM »
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2010, 11:53:25 PM »
I have eaten some very good haggis in Edinburgh.

Me too.  =)
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2010, 11:56:38 PM »
Or Dun Eidean  ;)

Why does that sound suspiciously like a Tolkien word...isn't that a homonym to the word used for the Rangers?
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2010, 02:58:22 AM »
I have eaten some very good haggis in Edinburgh.

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2010, 05:54:17 AM »

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No....all the cool kids are at the Fruit Cocktail thread.....
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2010, 11:25:17 AM »
Why does that sound suspiciously like a Tolkien word...isn't that a homonym to the word used for the Rangers?

Because Tolkien had to get his ideas from somewhere  ;)

Dun Eidean (Doon A-jenn) or "Edin's Fort" is the Gaidhlig version of Edinburgh.

I'm not sure who "Edin" was, but the name apparently goes back to around the sixth century when the capital of Lothian/Gododdin moved from Trapan Law (or Dun Pelder) to Dun Eidean/Edinburgh.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2010, 03:40:02 PM »
My parents had it when they visited Scotland, my dad said it tasted kind of like meatloaf.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2010, 04:47:49 PM »
My parents had it when they visited Scotland, my dad said it tasted kind of like meatloaf.

Someone in your family makes a decent meatloaf?  Send the recipe ASAP.

Are you folks referring to commercially prepared haggis, or to the traditional version?  Commercial haggis is dreck.  And the stuff that comes in a can?  Fuggedaboutit.

Of course, part of the enjoyment of a traditional haggis is the whisky (notice: no "e" in that word - ever!) that preceeds, accompanies, and follows the haggis.  If memory serves, at one time some water was used to wash the glass, but it did not seem to adulterate the fine samplings of the various distillers art.

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2010, 06:39:48 PM »
This is the stuff I usually have, don't think I have any other brand to compare it to:

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2010, 07:11:40 PM »



I thought Glenfiddich was the Taste of Scotland....
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2010, 09:31:21 PM »
I've had two varieties.  One was just fine with me, but the other tasted too much like rust (Fe2(III)O3) and caraway seeds for my liking.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2010, 10:22:23 PM »
When "Three Sheets" went to Scotland they had Zane try haggis at some high end restaurant.  He claimed it was quite good, and not all that different from sausage/hotdog/bratwurst.  It is afterall made from a lot of the same parts.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2010, 12:49:20 PM »
I've not actually tasted Haggis myself but I've heard that it is offal  =)
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2010, 03:45:56 PM »
I see what ewe did there.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2010, 07:27:18 PM »
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2010, 07:30:05 PM »
We don't have the stomach for those kind of puns....
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