haggis claims

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

You would have to think that most cultures / countries, would of had some form of "haggis", not wanting to waste any part of an animal etc...

Don't worry about the haggis, worry about them bloomin aussies trying to steal our pavlova...

[Rex_Tremende]

You would have to think that most cultures / countries, would of had some form of "haggis", not wanting to waste any part of an animal etc...

Don't worry about the haggis, worry about them bloomin aussies trying to steal our pavlova...

In Cincinnati, we have goetta, which is sort of like haggis, but without the organs; porcine, rather than ovine. German in origin, I suspect it probably had a more everything-but-the-squeal peasant history. Like haggis, oats are used to stretch the meat that you have. When I first tasted haggis, I thought it might have been goetta, that is until I bit into something distinctly iron-rich.

Regards,
Rex.

[McClef]

I read that someone asked if this was the case why hadn't Shakespeare written about it?

This cook book appeared in 1615 and Shakespeare died in 1616 so he may not have heard of it in time. Had he done so he may well have beaten Rabbie to it and popularised a dish which cannot really be said to have taken off in England, whatever its origin.

Forsooth! This pudding of our sceptr'd Isle!
This seat of Kings! Yet who dare'st deny the smile
On English lips, when thereupon they taste
And knowing that t'was o'er the Scots outpaced!
Let them prattle! Let them waste their breath!
But there is no Haggis in Macbeth!

[kscaddo]

I kid you not. I am watching Fox news w/Sheppard Smith and he says; that someone has found an English recipe that predates anything in Scotland. I just can't believe it.

[Phogfan86]

I think this verifies what liberals have said all along: Fox News just makes stuff up.

[Woodsheal]

I think this verifies what liberals have said all along: Fox News just makes stuff up.

Yeah, unlike those paragons of objectivity over at MSNBC....

Anyways, it kinda makes sense, as the "border" between England and Scotland was hardly an actual border for centuries....

[Tim Little]

World champion haggis maker Robert Patrick doesn't buy it.

"As simple as apple pie is American ... haggis is Scottish," he tells Melissa Block. "End of story."

Well said.

[vmac3205]

You would have to think that most cultures / countries, would of had some form of "haggis", not wanting to waste any part of an animal etc...

Don't worry about the haggis, worry about them bloomin aussies trying to steal our pavlova...

There was a great article in this month's Saveur food magazine about Pavlova. According to them, it is definately a New Zealand dish.

[macwilkin]

In Cincinnati, we have goetta, which is sort of like haggis, but without the organs; porcine, rather than ovine. German in origin, I suspect it probably had a more everything-but-the-squeal peasant history. Like haggis, oats are used to stretch the meat that you have. When I first tasted haggis, I thought it might have been goetta, that is until I bit into something distinctly iron-rich.

Regards,
Rex.

Aye, Rex...I think most every group has a Haggis-like dish. The Cajuns, for example, have boudin blanc, which is essentially Haggis with rice instead of oats.

T.

[Peter C.]

Aye, Rex...I think most every group has a Haggis-like dish. The Cajuns, for example, have boudin blanc, which is essentially Haggis with rice instead of oats.

T.

I think you are right there Todd.

Maybe the English had cook books before the Scots.

I think with the availability of food today, most countries no longer eat their haggis-like meals regularly.

Is haggis used in everyday meals in Scotland? I have only had it offered to me on Burns night.

Peter