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Re: who's got the hagus?
Sat, May 1, 2004 - 8:22 PMYou mean haggis? I do have Jackie Stewart coasters. -
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Thu, May 6, 2004 - 3:28 PMoops, hes Irish though?
If your want to talk like jackie Stewart, just put the letter l infront or words beginning with "R" or in place of "r"
example " oh its a gleat day , and its a gleat lrace, glreat dlrivers,>____- -
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Mon, May 1, 2006 - 4:08 AMDo you guys n gals honestly think that we Scots eat only haggis? Cos we don't.
I think I can safely say, it's something "we" only eat once or twice a year. It's not part of the national diet.
If you look at our health stats, you'd see we are the heart disease country of Europe. Why?
Because a lot of Scots eat out of fish and chip shops. This food is cooked with lard or beef dripping, and isn't good for the heart.
I can assure you, we aint running around scoffing on haggis. It's more like scoffing on Big Macs.
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Mon, May 1, 2006 - 11:29 AMI get so tired of people making jokes about the haggis, the bagpipes, the kilts... you'd think someone could come up with something more original than that.
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Thu, March 15, 2007 - 6:15 AMScotland, the home of the fried Mars bar.
You've got to wonder where we come up with this stuff. I mean who first thought of making a haggis? Do you think they ate all the "normal" parts of a sheep and then thought "well, what do we do with the left over bits?". Was there a period in history where the Scots were walking around with little sheep stomach balloons? -
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Fri, March 16, 2007 - 12:37 AMI think it might have had something to do with poverty ?
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Wed, January 10, 2007 - 10:02 AMHaggis. I find that if I prepare myself with an adequate amount whisky-a small amount of Haggis is tolerable about once a year. Haggis, like lots of fatty foods, is a food that kept people going who did hard physical work everyday. They burned the calories up each day. My paternal grandfather was a farmer who ate bacon,eggs, biscuits made with lard and poured hot bacon grease on his grits (we are Southern) everyday but worked it off. He was 91 when he died. I think our sedentary ways are as much to blame as not changing our diets. Of course, alcohol provided quick calories and relief from chronic pain. Since people did not often live past 30, the results of alcohol addiction were not so obvious.
Of historical interest, the records of the Lewis & Clark expidition showed that the men were starving despite consuming over 14,000 calories a day becuse they were only eating the lean meat of wild game. With no fat in the diet, the human body begins to consume itself. As they learned the small game that was fatty, their health improved.
As far as the hearts of Scots, I'll offer the opinion that perhaps Scots are the only one's who have hearts. As the late, great Lewis Grizzard said, "Hell, Spain could beat beat Vanderbilt". -
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Sun, March 11, 2007 - 3:15 AMHaggis isn't fatty though..Its oatmeal and blood. Oats are now the wonder grain for heart disease and fighting cholesterol. Its only when it covered in batter and deep fried that it becomes fatty..
Everything becomes fatty when cooked in this way.
My husband is scottish and we always have haggis, turnips and potatoes at New Year and on Burns night. This is more for our kids though.
My FIL pours the grease from the pan over his breakfast too..He is 70, his father (he lived on the western isles) so plenty of physical labour died 2 years ago aged 98. He did the same with the grease and he also drank a bottle of whiskey a day!
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Fri, October 26, 2007 - 3:19 PM...I wonder if anyone has come up with a vegetarian haggis.... -
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Fri, October 26, 2007 - 9:52 PMYes, you can find recipes for it by googling. And kosher haggis, too. -
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Sat, October 27, 2007 - 8:58 AMAwesome! Robert Burns feast, here I come, ready or not!
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Sun, November 4, 2007 - 1:17 PMMcSweens of edinburgh do a fabulous veggie haggis! -
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Sun, November 4, 2007 - 1:42 PMUnfortunately, MacSween's does not ship haggis to the US, only to EU countries. See www.scottishfoodoverseas.com/mac...html -
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Sun, November 4, 2007 - 2:24 PMJust to add a bit more to this topic I went to Wikipedia to get the the true definition for Haggis and a few other fun facts about Haggis.
From Wikipedia
Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish.
There are many recipes, most of which have in common the following ingredients: sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach for approximately an hour.
Because food safety laws in some countries outlaw some of the ingredients in haggis (for example, United States law forbids the sale of any animal's lungs for human consumption), expatriate Scots and Scots descendants overseas have been known to engage in 'haggis smuggling' to obtain true Scottish haggis. At least one American company produces haggis for the U.S. market. The Caledonian Kitchen, a Dallas, Texas,-based gourmet business, began producing both a Highland beef and vegetarian haggis commercially in 1999. In 2006, the company added a USDA lamb version of the product as well. Its haggis is in wide distribution throughout the U.S
There were 4,691 irradiated haggis in the cargo hold of the mining ship Red Dwarf
david
who enjoyed eating haggis while in Scotland and hoping to get back in 2009; by then the pound should be less than it is today.
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Sun, November 4, 2007 - 2:54 PMThanks for posting this. I went to the Calendonian Kitchen's site www.caledoniankitchen.com/catal...aq.php and found their vegetarian haggis. It's expensive, $8 for a 14.5 oz can, but something to do for Burns supper.
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Re: who's got the hagus?
Mon, November 5, 2007 - 5:56 AM...Well...haggis has existed at least since Robert Burns in it's current form--"Ode to a Haggis" shows that...so 1700s at least!
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