Posted on 01/25/2010 10:54:02 AM PST by C19fan
Smuggled and bootlegged, it has been the cause of transatlantic tensions for more than two decades. But after 21 years in exile, the haggis is to be allowed back into the United States.
The "great chieftan o' the puddin-race" was one of earliest casualties of the BSE crisis of the 1980s-90s, banned on health grounds by the US authorities in 1989 because they feared its main ingredient ‑ minced sheep offal ‑ could prove lethal.
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Every last one of them. Plus one more.
This great news because if Haggis is outlawed, only outlaws........
Warning... we have incoming
I did notice that it’s traditionally served with a belt of whiskey - hopefully a good single malt.
Gee I thought haggis was being marketed as scrapple in Philly.....;^)
You can find raw cheddar; a place like Whole Foods Market would carry it. I believe cheese has to be aged a certain number of days to be sold in the US if it’s not made from pasteurized milk.
oatmeal and organs stuffed in a stomach - just an oversized specialty sausage if you ask me. Parts is parts!
Scotch is available in drums?
Good thing. /s
Boomp Ta Tha Toop!
Last year was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns and despite being of mostly German Swiss pedigree I decided to have make the souncy dish—bought a can exactly like that (still proudly displayed on my kitchen cabinet bulkhead) only, being a good Pennsylvania Dutchman, I stuffed it into a hog maw and baked it like we (Dutchmen) would bake a hog maw stuffed with sausage, potatos, parsley, and onions.
It was excellent!
I have consumed many drams of scotch and have never once considered eating haggis.
ewe r so baaaaa-d
Ox Bung . .. . that’s what I was missing . ..
As comedian Mike Myers once said in a movie... “I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare...”
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
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:Thy micturations are to me
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:As plurdled gabbleblotchits
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:On a lurgid bee.
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:Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
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:And hooptiously drangle me
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:with crinkly bindlewurdles,
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:Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon
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:See if I don’t.
There's always head cheese.
haggis?
What are they talking about and in what language?
haggis, is that an ugly broad misspelled?
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