If You Wear a Kilt, You Gotta' Have Haggis!

**Riverkilt** · 22nd January 08, 10:53 PM

Why oh why didn't the Scots invent guacamole instead??

I think a bowl of fresh guacamole would be better than haggis...could be honored in the same way and much more fun to eat...

Thinking the Scots probably did invent guacamole but the English supressed it during the proscription. Recipe stolen by one of the wayward ships of the Spanish armada and eventually taken to Mexico where the locals claimed it.

At least maybe some haggis with guacamole to make it more palatable...

Everyone knows avacados were used to dye wool green in the olden days in Scotland.

Its time the truth be told and guacamole regains its rightful place in Scottish history.

Ron

**berserkbishop** · 22nd January 08, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Why oh why didn't the Scots invent guacamole instead??

I think a bowl of fresh guacamole would be better than haggis...could be honored in the same way and much more fun to eat...

Thinking the Scots probably did invent guacamole but the English supressed it during the proscription. Recipe stolen by one of the wayward ships of the Spanish armada and eventually taken to Mexico where the locals claimed it.

At least maybe some haggis with guacamole to make it more palatable...

Everyone knows avacados were used to dye wool green in the olden days in Scotland.

Its time the truth be told and guacamole regains its rightful place in Scottish history.

Ron

I couldnt agree with you more. I started life in Southern California and moved to Missouri, and I cant seem to get really good guacamole anywhere unless I make it myself.

Bishop

**James MacMillan** · 22nd January 08, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by berserkbishop

I couldnt agree with you more. I started life in Southern California and moved to Missouri, and I cant seem to get really good guacamole anywhere unless I make it myself.

Bishop

Being very close to Fallbrook California, (The self named Avocado Capital of the World) and a participant in their Avocado Festival every year, I think we should strat a new trend. We could just stuff a pigs bladder full of the green quac stuff and we would be happy...... and of course the chips to dip into it!!!

By the way, you really need to try deep fried avocados sometime.

**druid** · 23rd January 08, 12:44 AM

I've had Haggis before and can't say that I'm a fan...but it's not too bad with a good hot sauce

**berserkbishop** · 23rd January 08, 03:36 AM

Originally Posted by James MacMillan

Being very close to Fallbrook California, (The self named Avocado Capital of the World) and a participant in their Avocado Festival every year, I think we should strat a new trend. We could just stuff a pigs bladder full of the green quac stuff and we would be happy...... and of course the chips to dip into it!!!

By the way, you really need to try deep fried avocados sometime.

hmm. Deep fried avocados, that sounds tasty. sorry for hijacking the haggis thread with guac.

BACK TO THE HAGGIS!!!!

**McGurk** · 23rd January 08, 06:07 AM

Well, after reading this thread I couldnt stop myself, so at lunch time I headed for the chippy and got a haggis and chips (chips in the UK mean, steak fries in the US)

I know that around this time of year, it is customary pipe the haggis in and to to adress the haggis with the words written by Burns, but forgive me, I did neither. Much as I would have like to visit a burns supper this year, I didnt think poetry would be apreciated by a creature that had recently been ground up and stuffed into its own stomach.

However, It was filling and tasty and left me wishing I had more!

**scoutniagara** · 23rd January 08, 06:43 AM

Opies on the "Mountain" in Hamilton, Ontario makes a delicious haggis and supplies the Niagara Peninsula and beyond, all year.

**Pour1Malt** · 23rd January 08, 06:48 AM

'merica has nay real haggis... it is against the USDA rules...

the 'Oatmeal Savage' (in Oregon) makes a guid substitute.... but ai found it a bit heavy oan the 'liverish' meat and no enough oatmeal ar spice... so ai always opened his oop and stuffed in maire oatmeal an spices when ai made it....

if it tasted like liverwurst it wasnae made richt.... if it tastes bland- it wasnae made richt!

REAL Haggis is terrific stuff... it is very spicy...very oaty... wunnerfool!

ai cook slices o it every mornin' for breakfast at Ferintosh an eat it a couple times a week mysel....

the tinned stuff ai'm afeart o' an have no tried it....

oor butcher has won many awards fair his haggii (an other meats)

ai hav a amazin'ly tasty recipe fair cooking a 'hale haggii... (w/ prunes and apricots and lots o whisky ....) which ai cook fair Burns Suppers.... everyin (an ai mean everyyin) who has tried it has luv'd it!

**Pour1Malt** · 23rd January 08, 06:49 AM

hare ya gae!

6 o' the 9 haggii ai wuz fryin oop this mornin'....

mmmmm.... tasty!

**Pour1Malt** · 23rd January 08, 06:50 AM

some haggii ai'v had has been maire like pate or liverwurst... no enough oatmeal...

if you buy yin like this- dae yursel a BIG favour-

make some Skirlie to go along with it...

here is my recipe....

Skirlie Ferintosh…

Serves 4-6

2 large onions, roughly chopped
85g (6 tablespoons) drippings or butter
200g (1 cup) medium oatmeal
finely grated zest of 2 lemons
juice of 1 lemon
10ml (2 teaspoons) chopped fresh thyme
2 shakes of Tabasco
5 ml (1 teaspoon) nutmeg
pinch salt
lots of black pepper

1. Melt fat in frying pan, add onion and cook till browned.
2. Stir in oatmeal. Then add lemon zest, thyme, nutmeg, Tabasco. Continue to cook and stir for about 7-10 minutes. Serve hot. Can be kept warm in oven for up to an hour.