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Seems Americans have created their own version of Haggis, minus the sheeps' lungs.

Unthinkable! How can anyone even consider eating a Haggis without a bit of sheep lung. Bahhhh!

QuoteAgainst this backdrop, a mini-industry has emerged with American firms from Texas to New England manufacturing lung-free haggis for the US domestic market each January................

"Without the sheep's lung it's not authentic," he says. "It's too sausagey. It lacks the lightness the lungs help create."......................

As it stands, however, lungs are "considered an inedible item" in the US, says a spokesman for the Food Safety and Inspection Service....................

They've even got a vegetarian version!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21128089 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21128089)

Don't know much about eating it - but it can't be hurled nearly as far sans pulmo.

Lungs or no lungs, it's never been hard for me to hurl - but maybe that's the booze.

Quote from: Padma on January 24, 2013, 10:35:49 AM
Lungs or no lungs, it's never been hard for me to hurl - but maybe that's the booze.

Hurl, the bodily function, or hurl the haggis?

???

The former - I throw like a girl :).

The vegetarian ones are pretty good,you can get a battered meat haggis at the chip shops in Blackpool had a few of them with curry sauce.

What's this about hurling hags, am I missing something here?

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


Oh, I think I'm going to barf!  :icon_mrgreen:

Quote from: Shantel on January 24, 2013, 04:16:23 PM
What's this about hurling hags, am I missing something here?

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


Oh, I think I'm going to barf!  :icon_mrgreen:

Alright, now you're getting it!!  :-X

My God, what is the world coming too?

Imitation Haggis?

Vegetarian Haggis?

Next thing will be Scotsmen wearing undies under the kilt!!!

Haggis is a gift from God to my ancestors.

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye worthy o' a grace
As lang's my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o need,
While thro your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An cut you up wi ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
The auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
'Bethankit' hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi perfect scunner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll make it whissle;
An legs an arms, an heads will sned,
Like taps o thrissle.

Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies:
But, if ye wish her gratefu prayer,
Gie her a Haggis

- Bobby Burns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IvCIwo8Wbg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IvCIwo8Wbg)

Ah the fresh air, the excitement. The culture!

Quote from: Cindy James on January 25, 2013, 02:51:10 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IvCIwo8Wbg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IvCIwo8Wbg)

Ah the fresh air, the excitement. The culture!

If you didn't like that, you are really going to dislike this ...

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,134508.msg1071476/topicseen.html#msg1071476 (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,134508.msg1071476/topicseen.html#msg1071476)

And you are invited!

Quote from: Shantel on January 24, 2013, 04:16:23 PM
What's this about hurling hags, am I missing something here?

Having never heard of Haggis, I googled it and discovered that contests in distance-throwing this particular delicacy is a past-time for some folks...

Quote from: Sadie May on January 25, 2013, 09:17:41 AM
Having never heard of Haggis, I googled it and discovered that contests in distance-throwing this particular delicacy is a past-time for some folks...

I'm assuming that we are talking about projectile vomiting!

Yum, but then I'm Scottish.  it appears that America's ban has less to do with public and animal health (the fear of Scrapie) and more to do with a falsely reasoned queasiness.

Haggis is lovely and is a protien-rich, low-fat dish.  The USA doesn't know what it's missing.

Oh and don't they eat squirrel and grits over there?

I really don't see any problem... we love to make all sorts of laws, bans, etc...  but adhering to them is optional.

Quote from: Pippa on January 25, 2013, 09:30:41 AM
Yum, but then I'm Scottish.  it appears that America's ban has less to do with public and animal health (the fear of Scrapie) and more to do with a falsely reasoned queasiness.

Haggis is lovely and is a protien-rich, low-fat dish.  The USA doesn't know what it's missing.

Oh and don't they eat squirrel and grits over there?

Pippa, just pulling everyone's leg here a bit. I've had something similar baked in a sheep's stomach, it's just the thought that makes the uninitiated a bit queasy. I ate wild goat that was sandwiched between big palm leaves and buried on hot rocks in a pit barbecue on a remote island in the South China Sea. So I would imagine that Haggis would be just fine.

Quote from: Pippa on January 25, 2013, 09:30:41 AM

Oh and don't they eat squirrel and grits over there?

And Hamburgers, Hotdogs and Joggers.

But we love them anyway.  :laugh:

Quote from: Shantel on January 25, 2013, 09:51:16 AM
it's just the thought that makes the uninitiated a bit queasy.

I spent 6 months working in a food factory, which turned out Yoghurt and such. It's best not to think too much about these things. If it tastes good, swallow. (Though that doesn't explain why some insist upon Mushroom Soup!).

You know what's really good with Haggis? Black Pudding. It's made with congealed pig blood!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/black_pudding (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/black_pudding)

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fichef.bbci.co.uk%2Ffood%2Fic%2Ffood_16x9_608%2Ffoods%2Fb%2Fblack_pudding_16x9.jpg&hash=d399973b05302fdb7eddc7df214359edd1f5f9b8)

For haggis, I prefer AB's version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuixJaAia84 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuixJaAia84)

For blood sausage, I prefer that other people eat it and that I don;t even have to look at it (my mom and dad used to love the German variety - BLECH!)

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Lung or no lung, I'm not eating that!    And just for reference, I don't eat grits or squirrel either.

  Emelye beat me to it.  I like AB's presentations.  We usually see haggis at the Celtic festivals around here, along with the b->-bleeped-<-ipes and caber tosses.  This stuff was imported from Scotland for those events.  No thank you.

  Joelene

Quote from: spacial on January 25, 2013, 01:16:19 PM
You know what's really good with Haggis? Black Pudding. It's made with congealed pig blood!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/black_pudding (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/black_pudding)

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fichef.bbci.co.uk%2Ffood%2Fic%2Ffood_16x9_608%2Ffoods%2Fb%2Fblack_pudding_16x9.jpg&hash=d399973b05302fdb7eddc7df214359edd1f5f9b8)

Good reason to convert to Kosher Judaism as far as I'm concerned! Yaaack, barf!

I don't get it. People love Italian sausage, bratwurst, kielbasa, haggis is just Scottish sausage, isn't it? I mean, you never know what's in a sausage anyway! It's always a roll of the dice.

That's it though Devlin. A sausage with a good press agent.

The devil in me likes the idea that when I eat it, some people feel like barfing.

As for Black Pudding. How can anyone resist?

Quote from: spacial on January 25, 2013, 05:38:11 PM

As for Black Pudding. How can anyone resist?

Couldn't be any worse than a fecal transplant to cure gastrointestinal disorder.  >:-)