Have you ever eaten haggis? If so, did you like it?

Mmmmm...haggis. It's best with mashed neaps and tatties and a wee bit of skirlie.

I wish I weren't squicked about food so easily and were more willing to try things like haggis.

BLAH!! Kind of reminds me of circus peanuts.

I don't know if I have had it. My parents have a tendency to give me food without telling me what it is. That's how they got me to eat raw eel.

Yes, I think I liked it but I don't really remember. I was a little girl.

I ate jellied eel a lot as a small child. I loved it.

Really? I didn't know there was a such thing as jellied eel. Sounds very... different. I would be willing to try it though if I ever ran across it.

No, and I'll never try it. Nasty!

No, but I've served it at my job on many occasions.

No thanks. (As delicious as it sounds)

It was pretty good. Not something that I would order every day but I definitely think that it gets a bad rap.

No, and I don't plan to eat it. Ever.

I've never had it, but I've had chitterlings. Fried is better than boiled, and cajun-style is the best of the three. Not that they are that good to begin with...

Today and tomorrow our town holds its own version of the Scottish Highland Games. We are going to check it out...mainly for the beer, the sheepdog exhibition and authentic Scottish meat pies...

They are having a Haggis throw except instead of using a real Haggis(which I feel would have been very entertaining) they are substituting a cloth bag. What's with that?

I've never found any kosher haggis. Oh darn.

I think the veggie haggis in a can is kosher.

That doesn't sound quite the same, somehow (thank goodness.)

Fear not: the tinned veggie haggis is in a sheep's stomach. That probably makes it non-kosher (and certainly renders it non-vegetarian).

Phew! Saved again!

Would this one be kosher?

Baked onions with vegetarian haggis
(from Lisa C. Ferguson, filmgal@magicnet.net)

        6 medium unpeeled onions, trimmed
        50g sunflower margarine
        50g organic rolled oats
        50g pinhead oatmeal
        50g chopped mixed nuts
        1 onion, finely chopped
        100g mushrooms, finely chopped
        1 carrot, finely chopped
        200g can red kidney beans, drained and chopped
        50g vegetable suet
        1 teaspoon yeast extract
        1 teaspoon ground black pepper
        2 tbs. chopped mixed fresh herbs
        pinch of grated nutmeg
        juice of 1 lime
        1 tbs. whisky
        seasoning
        chopped fresh chives and parsley, to garnish

Cut a slither from the bottom of each of the onions, so that they stand upright. Cut a cross in the top about three quarters of the way down. Place in a large pan, cover with cold water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 15 minutes, drain and refresh under cold water.

Preheat the oven to 190C (375F). To make the haggis, melt the margarine in a pan and add the oats, oatmeal and nuts. Cook over a gentle heat, stirring, for about 3 minutes until toasted and golden. Transfer to a bowl.

Melt remaining margarine, add the onion, mushrooms and carrot and cook gently for 5 minutes until softened. Stir into the toasted oat mixture with the remaining haggis ingredients. Season.

Snip out the center of the onions with kitchen scissors, leaving the skin and 3-4 outer layers intact. Stuff with haggis and bake for 40 minutes.

Serves 6.

(from http://www.smart.net/~tak/haggis.html#eight )

Yes... but it has kidney beans in it, which although kosher are just yucky. So still no go.

I've never had it and certainly never will. Organ meat disgusts me.

Scottish meat disgusts me. I'll never eat it again.
*turns green and shivers*

So just leave the kidney beans out. Or replace them with a similar bean.

I've heard it's rather woody...

I take it you mean the Hammond variety?

Yes!

...very crunchy. I hate getting splinters in my tongue.

I've not eaten it, but I wouldn't mind it.

I seem to remember it tasting like it smelled, which didn't do much for me, but that was a lot of years ago. I'd try a bite or two again if I was in a place that had some.

My dad is scottish so I was plied with all the traditional food like haggis, fruit pudding and black pudding when I was little. It's a good job I like the taste!

mmmmm black pudding..........

Yes, once and I didn't like it.

Yeth! Ith maketh ith very hard tho thpeak.

Hey, I was just at my sister's house Saturday and played the old family Hammond organ that we grew up with. That thing is over 35 years old, and it still sounds great.

& autumnlight -- Do I even want to know what's in black pudding? Sounds scary...

Last March in Ireland I got black pudding with my breakfast. I asked the waitress what is was. She said: 'You don't wanna know'. And she never told me what was in it!

You really don't want to know...but it's fukkin' delicious!!!!

Yum. I like black pudding. I wish the markets here would sell it.

I'd like to make my own, but first I'll have to find a butcher who is willing to sell blood by the quart.

It is illegal (in Massachusetts) for a butcher to sell you blood. If you can find a willing butcher (such as O'Driscoll's in Northborough), you can give them your recipe and have them make some for you.

That's ridiculous. But then Massachusetts seems to specialize in passing restrictive laws whenever it is brought to the attention of the legislature that there's some ``potentially dangerous'' activity that hasn't been banned yet. I think it's the official state pastime.

Probably not, but I'll tell you anyway : Blood, and... umm... more blood?

How I miss the Blood and Tongue sausage from my youth as the child of an immigrant.

Oh, yum. I thought that was called blood pudding.

Ewwwwww

I think this is called goetta where I am from, but I've never had it. I've been told that Cincinnati is the only place that calls it that.

Mmmmmmmmm. Oh yes, i certainly agree with you there. Haggis is tops