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Wednesday, January 25. 2023

Haggis, for Burns' Night


I've visited Scotland a couple of times, and we are headed there again this year. May I say that Scotland (England too) is not known for cuisine?


OK, they do cook good fresh fish, and mutton. Clootie pudding is ok with ice cream, and kippers are fine but too big. Haggis is not terrible as part of a breakfast, but it's not the greatest. 


Haggis Recipe.  A chef friend recommends barley instead of oatmeal. Where do you buy a cow or sheep stomach? 


It's Bobbie Burns' birthday. What's the Highland Fling?



Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 13:22 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Perfect footwork. I'm 80 and I kept thinking I can barely walk to the bathroom when I get up in the morning and these young ladies were jumping around with perfect balance. It sucks to grow old.
#1 JustMe on 2023-01-25 14:43 (Reply)
If you’re in a bind, we have cow and sheep stomachs around, among other things
#2 Jon from Illinois on 2023-01-25 17:12 (Reply)
re Tripe

A grocery store that caters to hispanics might have it.

If there is a local locker plant that custom slaughters livestock, you might be able to find either cut there.
#3 feeblemind on 2023-01-25 17:18 (Reply)
Menuo in the supermarket was $4.00 per can ten years ago. Now it's $10.00 and the cans are smaller.
#3.1 snopercod on 2023-01-25 20:31 (Reply)
Haggis. Yummy! And I am not kidding.
#4 Stargazer on 2023-01-25 18:31 (Reply)
The girls make the Fling look graceful, the gents make it look like a tractor pull. At least the ones I knew did. Then, again, they were likely wearing jump boots or Red Wings.
#5 Mike-SMO on 2023-01-25 22:34 (Reply)
Never barley in Haggis. Not only does it change the taste but the barley pops like hell when making patties from a leftover Burns Supper!
Mike-SMO Maybe because I am a girl, I prefer to watch the guys do the fling and the sword dance. They just exude strength.
#6 missred (Link) on 2023-01-26 17:04 (Reply)
It's Time To Legalize Haggis

QUOTE:
An American medical doctor and author has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture, asking the agency to lift a decades-old rule banning the use of lungs in food. The petition, filed this month by Jonathan Reisman, argues the ban is unscientific.

The sale of authentic haggis has been illegal in the United States for decades, I explain in an entry on food bans that appears in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food & Drink in America. The ban has been in place since 1971 when a USDA study found—despite pushback from "[c]ertain interested parties"—that the lungs of livestock were unhealthy and could not be served as human food.

https://reason.com/2023/01/28/its-time-to-legalize-haggis/
#7 feeblemind on 2023-01-28 15:31 (Reply)

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