Haggis

[Sriram]

Hi everyone,

Is this really a delicacy...a national dish... these days?

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/haggis-scotland-secrets/index.html

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Anthony Bourdain loved haggis. But even the late, great American chef, writer and television host recognized that Scotland’s national dish, with its “sinister sheep parts” wrapped in a shroud of mystery and half-invented history, could be a hard sell.

“Don’t let them tell you otherwise, that’s really one of life’s great pleasures,” Bourdain said on one of his gastro-curious pilgrimages to Glasgow. “There is no more unfairly reviled food on Earth than the haggis.”

A mash-up of diced lung, liver and heart mixed with oatmeal, beef suet, onion and assorted spices, haggis was traditionally made by stuffing these raw ingredients into the stomach of a recently slain sheep and boiling the lot to a state of palatability.

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Sriram

[Gordon]

Sriram

Yes it is - and not just for Burns Night either: we had haggis just last week.

[ad_orientem]

Had haggis before. Liked it. My kind of food. Hard sell? I don't know. If it had come from France or Italy and had a fancy name, people around the world might well rave about it. Same goes for the humble steak and kidney pie.

[Dicky Underpants]

Hi everyone,

Is this really a delicacy...a national dish... these days?

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/haggis-scotland-secrets/index.html

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Anthony Bourdain loved haggis. But even the late, great American chef, writer and television host recognized that Scotland’s national dish, with its “sinister sheep parts” wrapped in a shroud of mystery and half-invented history, could be a hard sell.

“Don’t let them tell you otherwise, that’s really one of life’s great pleasures,” Bourdain said on one of his gastro-curious pilgrimages to Glasgow. “There is no more unfairly reviled food on Earth than the haggis.”

A mash-up of diced lung, liver and heart mixed with oatmeal, beef suet, onion and assorted spices, haggis was traditionally made by stuffing these raw ingredients into the stomach of a recently slain sheep and boiling the lot to a state of palatability.

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Sriram

I like the vegetarian option. Never been brave enough to try the original.

[Sriram]

I like the vegetarian option. Never been brave enough to try the original.

Is there such a thing as a vegetarian haggis? 

[Nearly Sane]

Is there such a thing as a vegetarian haggis? 

https://scottishscran.com/vegetarian-haggis-recipe

[jeremyp]

I think it's been an option for every cooked breakfast I've had at a hotel in Scotland. If you hadn't been told, you wouldn't know which bits of offal are in haggis.