Burns Night - Haggis!

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Who else will be having Haggis today? I tend to eat it throughout the year, not just on Burns Night anyway.

Tonight I'll be having a Ramsay Haggis. It's just a shame that this far south, no butchers locally make kill them fresh so I have to buy a mass produced one.
 
I'm having the last of the haggi I bought from Crombies when I was in Edinburgh last. I'll be having mine with the traditional neeps and tatties with a glass of whisky (not too much - got my offshore medical tomorrow). I don't have any sauce or gravy with mine; simply because I prefer it without.
 
Curious to try, never had it before. Also I assume "neeps" is just turnip? Or are you buying something more specific?

Is a decent haggis easy to find at short notice? I assume supermarket produce wouldn't be the best choice?
 
Egon said:
Curious to try, never had it before. Also I assume "neeps" is just turnip? Or are you buying something more specific?

Is a decent haggis easy to find at short notice? I assume supermarket produce wouldn't be the best choice?
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Neeps are swedes.

If you can find Macsweens in the supermarket that's a passably good haggis. We get them up here in Shields so you might find them in Darlo. The other widely available one is Halls. Personally, I would rather eat my own scrotum than eat a Halls haggis but they're popular so......
 
I should try some Haggis again, I was put off it when at primary school in Scotland we were force fed it every Friday lunch. With salad :(

"If you don't eat your Haggis you don't get your oatmeal biscuit laddie!"

Needless to say the only part of that meal I could stomach at the time was the biscuit!
I do eat a lot of salad these days but still avoid the celery they use to put in.
 
Definitely having haggis tonight, though decisions, decisions. Will it be haggis, neeps and tatties (the butcher next door does lovely haggis) or a battered haggis supper from the chippy in Fishertown (fresh fired while you wait and taste amazing). Only a few hours to decide!
 
Sadly it's not possible to get a haggis supper down here (I do love battered haggis) but I'll do the next best thing and grab a portion of chips from the chippy to go with mine.
 
Nope, haggis down here sucks. When I was hiking in Scotland I had it pretty much every day and some days, several times. Tried it every which way.
 
Some veggie haggis is quite nice, though to me it's more like a spiced mealie pudding than a haggis. Last time I had the veggie version it was used to stuff a portobello mushroom, suprisingly nice.
 
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