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Perhaps this should go under debates, but we're trying to promote the new forum here.
Who are the DOOM haggis eaters? Out of respect, we'll consider the veg haggis as not true haggis so the participants in Happy DOOM year 2008 don't count.
TQ just confessed to having haggis at Loch Ness. PPFY & HK are haggis connoisseurs, and can recommend the best U.S brands. ED & DM are vegetarian, but if Dm was ever in Scotland, he might try some, just to slake the curiosity inspired by Monty Python.
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c'mon, fess up, you all have been having a secret haggis craving ever since that abomination of a veggie haggis was served, haven't you? Nothing to be ashamed of now...well, OK, it actually is a little shameful, but only a little....
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My parents took a package tour in the UK at the same time as my brother and I were there traveling around on our own. We met them in Edinburgh and their tour director let us into a dinner show (highland dancing etc.) complete with piping in the haggis and the Burns poem.
I thought the haggis was very tasty, kind of like a mutant meatloaf. My father (who loved liver, and whom I once saw eat sour and lumpy milk on his cereal) didn't like it, which I thought was out of character for him. Plus neither he nor my mother like Scotch, so I drank theirs as well. All in all a good night.
But where can you get haggis in the US? Otherwise the question is moot.
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You used to be able to order them from The Ministry of Food in San Jose. HK will know more about this than I. I did have a very good one out of Texas last year. The USDA won't allow them to be imported into the US as they are "unfit for human consumption".
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My brither gets hie haggi from somewheer local, but I dinna knoo wither. No doobt some greet lad wha mekes it a' fra scratch, y'see.
Still an all, "unfit for yon human consumption" right sums it oop, dinna?
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I can't imagine I'd even know about haggis if it weren't for Monty Python. It was such a running joke with them. So I'd probably try it if I were in the Isles. I don't think I'd be up for some American backyard-made stuff and especially not the Texas stuff.
Never ceases to amaze me what America deems as fit or unfit for human consumption. We can eat mcnuggets but not haggis? That's horribly horribly wrong.
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