HAGGIS

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I founD hAGGIS in the supermarket the other day and ive never tried it before and have always wanted to try it so i bought it and kooooked it and had it with mash potato and diced swede. And very ARW YOM it was too. Anyone else tried/like the Haggis?

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i even toook a photo of it for posterity.

[Weyland]

Aug 24, 2010 12:26:37 GMT @costal said:

i even toook a photo of it for posterity.

I love haggis, Costy. In fact you've reminded me that there's one in the freezer. That's what I'll have for dinner. Don't have any neaps, but what the hell.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

What exactly is it? Variations on a theme, but is the supermarket brand the same as the genuine article?

I'm hungry. (not eating properly because of tooth abscess)

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Don't often see it in the shops here Weyland.. or maybe i just forget to look for it , one or t'other.. ENNEEWAAAY it just sort of leapt of the shelf at me the other day, so i went for it. i knew it was probly the sort of thing i would like, and i was right. Enjoy your haggis tonight.. take a photo of it, if possible. photos of haggis meals are al the rage doncha know.

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Aug 24, 2010 13:56:21 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

What exactly is it? Variations on a theme, but is the supermarket brand the same as the genuine article?

I'm hungry. (not eating properly because of tooth abscess)

i'm still not entirely sure.. a scots lady on another board said she was going to tell me, but only after i ate it.. but she still hasnt told me yet. i believe it to be bits of animals insides n stuff, with oatmeal n spices n other bits n pieces that they don't like to speak of. ;D

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from wiki:

Haggis is a dish containing sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally simmered in the animal's stomach for approximately three hours. Most modern commercial haggis is prepared in a casing rather than an actual stomach.

Haggis is a kind of sausage, or savoury pudding cooked in a casing of sheep's intestine, as sausages are. As the 2001 English edition of the Larousse Gastronomique puts it, "Although its description is not immediately appealing, haggis has an excellent nutty texture and delicious savoury flavour".[1]

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Aug 24, 2010 14:03:46 GMT @costal said:

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Haggis is a dish containing sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally simmered in the animal's stomach for approximately three hours. Most modern commercial haggis is prepared in a casing rather than an actual stomach.

Haggis is a kind of sausage, or savoury pudding cooked in a casing of sheep's intestine, as sausages are. As the 2001 English edition of the Larousse Gastronomique puts it, "Although its description is not immediately appealing, haggis has an excellent nutty texture and delicious savoury flavour".[1]

Oh dear. I reckon I'll have cheese on toast. (off work) Although I'm prepared to accept it's delicious and no worse than any sausage we might consume. Depending on the sausage.

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as a meat eater, it doesnt do to be sqweamish, thats for sure.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

How are things btw Costal? Hope life is treating you well. Are you still in Hastings?

(sorry but this is the only chance we get to chat)

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hey chris, yeah im still in hastings.. im thinking about staying here now.. probly cos i've lost all enthusiasm and motivation to do anythink else. :/
hope your tooth issue is sorted out soon, btw.. toothache is the worst.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Aug 24, 2010 14:43:21 GMT @costal said:

hey chris, yeah im still in hastings.. im thinking about staying here now.. probly cos i've lost all enthusiasm and motivation to do anythink else. :/
hope your tooth issue is sorted out soon, btw.. toothache is the worst.

Things can change for the better mate. Believe me. So long as you are ok. I've been at your age and wandering through cities and towns and villages and ending up in dense countryside mapping out my next move.

It's never dull. But I hurt along the way.. ( a series of failed romances...lost my footing with closest family)

Best of luck my friend.

[riotgrrl]

Haggis is the dog's bollocks . .. not literally of course.

It's succulent, it's spicey, it's taste-filled. It's good for stuffing into chickens, it's good with mashed potatoes, it's good deep-fried with chips.

Haven't had it much recently; trying to eat more healthily and that.

But it's great.

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thankyou

[Patrick]

An increase in your fluffiness is in order Costal for the deft bit of forkwork on your Mashed Potato. I can only guess that you were laying out the ground work for a bit of "Mash Art". Splendid!

[Weyland]

Aug 24, 2010 13:57:37 GMT @costal said:

Don't often see it in the shops here Weyland.. or maybe i just forget to look for it , one or t'other.. ENNEEWAAAY it just sort of leapt of the shelf at me the other day, so i went for it. i knew it was probly the sort of thing i would like, and i was right. Enjoy your haggis tonight.. take a photo of it, if possible. photos of haggis meals are al the rage doncha know.

I'll see what can be arranged.

Marks'n'Sparks is where I got my haggis. It was on BOGOF, and there's one left.

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Hehe cheers Patrick

[everso]

When were were in Edinburgh recently, visiting our son, we went to a lovely restaurant in the Leith area called "The Shore" (definitely recommended). Anyhow, for the main course I had haggis, neeps and tatties. I'd had haggis before, but usually only in small amounts (like, say, chicken breast stuffed with haggis - again, delicious) but I liked it even more in larger quanities!

[aubrey]

I've had vegetarian haggis, which was good: though probably nothing like the real thing.

Most vegetarian imitation meat isn't really like real meat: but the meat eaters who live with me (not the cats) quite like it - mainly because you don't get those tubes etc that you sometimes get in real meat.

I remember, as a child, sometimes having real trouble eating meat - actually swallowing it. The more you chewed the worse it got. Just couldn't get it down, sometimes.

[alanseago]

Did you have clockwise or anticlockwise haggis?