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Diana Sinclair Posts: 3605 Joined: 3rd Apr 2008 Location: USA	quotePosted at 21:04 on 7th May 2008 Exactly what is haggis?
Lyn G Posts: 5530 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: United Kingdom	quotePosted at 21:21 on 7th May 2008 Its bits of everything stuffed in a .....ask Ron lol
Sue H. Posts: 3322 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA	quotePosted at 21:21 on 7th May 2008 Diana! You must have heard of haggis, everyone in the free world has heard of haggis. It's a traditional Scottish dish made from a pigs intestine stuffed with minced sheep's liver, heart and lungs mixed with oatmeal, onion, suet, sugar, salt, stock and then boiled.
Sue H. Posts: 3322 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA	quotePosted at 21:23 on 7th May 2008 Wait, I just looked it up on the net, and it looks like they use sheep's stomach and not pigs intestines. My bad!
Peter Evans Posts: 3049 Joined: 20th Aug 2006 Location: United Kingdom	quotePosted at 00:16 on 8th May 2008 I have never seen a haggis fly. Do you pluck it before eating it? And do you have to learn how to play the bagpipes so you can pipe it in. I should think it's a bit dificult to eat haggis while playing the bagpipes.
Andy Edwards Posts: 1660 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: United Kingdom	quotePosted at 08:05 on 8th May 2008 It's even more difficult to play the haggis whilst eating the bagpipes, trust me!!
Andy Edwards Posts: 1660 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: United Kingdom	quotePosted at 08:10 on 8th May 2008 On a more serious note, although the description Sue gives makes it sound awful, it's actually very, very delicious. Mc.Sweeneys are the nicest, but I couldn't find one of those, so instead I bought two Halls haggis. Apparently, they're the 'worlds' favourite'!! I spelt apparently 3 times then, and every one of them looked correct...........a word used often and difficult to spell correctly Peter.
Ron Brind Posts: 2114 Joined: 11th Jun 2007 Location: United Kingdom	quotePosted at 10:31 on 8th May 2008 Apparuntly, aparantly, aparently, well anyhow some of us can't spell apparently or difficult can we Peter? And Lyn, another little swipe at Ron? The posts don't go unotissed, unnoticed, unknoticed, well anyway I read the posts! Andy, I love haggis almost as much as black pudding! Sue H. Lets have your recipe for black pudding as it used to be. Tell everybody what it contains and have them throwing up in the forum!
Sue H. Posts: 3322 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA	quotePosted at 13:25 on 8th May 2008 I love a little black or blood pudding, as it was called in our house, fried up and salted for breakfast. Black pudding is like a very thick sausage made with blood and a filler that is cooked up until the blood congeals. I always wondered what the big white bits were in the pudding, it didn't look like suet, but I'm sure it was some kind of fat.
Sue H. Posts: 3322 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA	quotePosted at 13:29 on 8th May 2008 And now to get onto track, I saw a Nashville Warblers in our tree last evening. Nashville is thousands of miles away, wonder what it's doing here? I took a couple of pictures, most of which are of it's butt, as it wasn't going to stay still for half a second. But I did get a few good shots.