Posted on 01/25/2010 10:54:02 AM PST by C19fan
Smuggled and bootlegged, it has been the cause of transatlantic tensions for more than two decades. But after 21 years in exile, the haggis is to be allowed back into the United States.
The "great chieftan o' the puddin-race" was one of earliest casualties of the BSE crisis of the 1980s-90s, banned on health grounds by the US authorities in 1989 because they feared its main ingredient ‑ minced sheep offal ‑ could prove lethal.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
....and jamón serrano from Spain.
And certified trichinosis-free fresh pork. It's delicious.
First they came for haggis, but I had never eaten it... so I said nothing. Then they came for sausage....
Actually, it may be my Scottish blood, but I would like to try it, once.
If Obama continues to wreck our country, we might be stuck with eating far worse. Can haggis be made with rat gut?
We only deal in cows. Sheep is for them brokeback mountain boys.
Pelosi.
Well no wonder, you left out the turnips and oats.
A dram is 0.125 fluid oz. So between 24 and 48.
Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay
Horace ate himself one day.
He didn't stop to say his grace,
He just sat down and ate his face.
"We can't have this his Dad declared,
"If that lad's ate, he should be shared."
But even as he spoke they saw
Horace eating more and more:
First his legs and then his thighs,
His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes...
"Stop him someone!" Mother cried
"Those eyeballs would be better fried!"
But all too late, for they were gone,
And he had started on his dong...
"Oh! foolish child!" the father mourns
"You could have deep-fried that with prawns,
Some parsley and some tartar sauce..."
But H. was on his second course:
His liver and his lights and lung,
His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue;
"To think I raised him from the cot
And now he's going to scoff the lot!"
His Mother cried: "What shall we do?
What's left won't even make a stew..."
And as she wept, her son was seen
To eat his head, his heart, his spleen.
And there he lay: a boy no more,
Just a stomach, on the floor...
None the less, since it was his
They ate it – that's what haggis is.
(Courtesy of Monty Python's Big Red Book)
1.
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang’s my arm.
2.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hudies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
3.
His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An’ cut ye up wi’ ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reeking, rich!
4.
Then horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
‘Bethankit!’ hums.
5.
Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi perfect scunner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?
6.
Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As fecl;ess as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Tho’ bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit.
7.
But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll make it whistle;
An’ legs, an’ arms, an’ heads will sned
Like taps o’ thrissle.
8.
Ye pow’rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware,
That jaups in luggies;
But if ye wish her gratfu’ prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!
—Robert Burns
At the bottom of the link is step by step directions on how to make it, along with pictures.Enjoy.
......Can haggis be made with rat gut?....
Of course not!
Everyone knows Rats are gutless
Do we really need a ban on haggis? Aren’t the ingredients enough to scare most people?
Scottish cuisine, English Cuisine, Jewish Cuisine, why can’t I find any fine dining establishments featuring these culinary concepts?.................
I would put haggis right up there with scapple in the unedible meat leavings category. We have a lot to be grateful for from our Scots-Irish ancestors, but culinary delights aren’t one of them.
Perfect... ;>)
......why can’t I find any fine dining establishments featuring these culinary concepts?.....................
Some time when you have noting else to do, you can hunt a place that serves Kosher Haggis
Fortunately the liquid portion of the Celtic diet makes up for it.
Fortunately the liquid portion of the Celtic diet makes up for it.
Good thing, that, now if we could only convince them to see a dentist.
100%?
They’ll probably serve kosher cheeseburgers, too!..............
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