Haggis... fried?

**hkjrb623** · 28th January 12, 10:47 PM

Has anyone found a good place to order haggis in the States? I've seen the canned version on websites and wondered about the quality.

**Mickey** · 28th January 12, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by hkjrb623

Has anyone found a good place to order haggis in the States? I've seen the canned version on websites and wondered about the quality.

Like all food, nothing beats homemade, but for convenience, I keep the canned stuff around and really enjoy it. Like all packaged foods they need a bit of doctoring with a bit more salt, pepper and cayenne, and sometimes some herbs and onions if I'm feeling fancy, but they aren't bad at all.

Out of the canned versions, I actually prefer the Caledonian brand. I can get it locally, but the Scottish Tartan Museum sells it also. Good eats

**hkjrb623** · 28th January 12, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by Mickey

Like all food, nothing beats homemade, but for convenience, I keep the canned stuff around and really enjoy it. Like all packaged foods they need a bit of doctoring with a bit more salt, pepper and cayenne, and sometimes some herbs and onions if I'm feeling fancy, but they aren't bad at all.

Out of the canned versions, I actually prefer the Caledonian brand. I can get it locally, but the Scottish Tartan Museum sells it also. Good eats

Would Alton Brown cover haggis on Good Eats?

**Mickey** · 28th January 12, 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by hkjrb623

Would Alton Brown cover haggis on Good Eats?

He not only would.. he has... http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/a...ipe/index.html

**hkjrb623** · 28th January 12, 11:50 PM

Where do you find it locally. I bounce back and forth between Memphis and Jonesboro, AR. Maybe I could find it between the two.

**Mickey** · 28th January 12, 11:54 PM

Locally, in St. Charles, I get it at either Thistle and Clover or The English Shop. Crap shoot as to which shop has it or when.

**Singlemalt** · 29th January 12, 04:47 AM

My local butcher makes haggis fairly regularly. He always has it around Hogmany and Burn's night. What does not sell right away he slices around half inch think and freezes the slices. He sells them about six in a package and they are my favourite Sunday morning breakfast fried in cast iron pan with the eggs in bacon grease.

I can hear my artieries hardening but it is worth it! Time to get out the pan.

**Rab** · 29th January 12, 07:49 AM

Yeah fried haggis is pretty much standard breakfast stuff, comes in slices from a big long pudding, can be found in most super/mini markets and butchers and anywhere that sell hot breakfast rolls.
Chip shops usually do two types of deep fried haggis, the normal one is a long sausage shape where as a spicy haggis is sort of like a rugby ball shape cut in half, both come in batter.
Haggis balls or parcells can be found quite regularly as a starter in many restraunts and I know of at least 3 indian restraunts that do haggis pakora. My local pizza place does a haggis pizza and theres also one now available in the supermarkets too.
Yum yum

**starbkjrus** · 30th January 12, 01:48 PM

Actually this is the full breakfast at Ferintosh Guest House in Dumfries, Scotland. Note the sliced pan fried haggis.

Mmmmmm. I've really got to get back there soon.

http://www.ferintosh.net/breakfast1.htm

**Tobus** · 30th January 12, 01:56 PM

My local pizza place does a haggis pizza and theres also one now available in the supermarkets too.

Oh, how I wish you hadn't done that. Now there's something else on my list of things to try.

Say, I hear that deep-fried pizza is popular in Scotland. In order to bring this thread full-circle, have you ever had deep-fried haggis pizza?