Burns Night - Haggis!

WJA96 said:
So that’s a synthetic casing and the length of the ingredients list would suggest it’s quite a synthetic haggis!
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I don’t see a problem here :confused:

Ingredients: Lamb Offal 25%, Beef Fat 12.5%, Haggis Seasoning (Salt, Rusk (fortified wheat flour (calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamine) salt), Spices (black pepper, coriander, ginger, allspice), Spice Extract, Flavour Enhancer E621), Onions.

www.gallowayfamilybutchers.co.uk

Whole Haggis Stick (sliced) - Galloway Quality Meats

Whole Haggis Stick Sliced - our own made Haggis made by our skilled butchery team. Scottish Haggis made in the heart of Burns town of Dumfries.
www.gallowayfamilybutchers.co.uk www.gallowayfamilybutchers.co.uk
 
WJA96 said:
I‘m sure it tastes lovely but it’s a gigantic lamb sausage, not a haggis. Haggis is minced mutton pluck with oatmeal stuffed into the distal stomach of the sheep.
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Oh my word, what a food snob. Basically the same ingredients but because one lists more details, it’s automatically worse :rolleyes:

We normally buy the individual 500g Galloway haggis but the large 1.6kg version in the synthetic casing was £10 compared to £5 each for the 500g versions. Same thing, difference casing. The 500g MacSweens have been in a synthetic casing for a few years. By your reasoning, that’s not a haggis either, right?

I’m not trying to be a Scotsman by proxy, I may bump this thread each year but we eat a lot of haggis, it’s not just a once a year thing for us.

Rather than try and be superior, why not be supportive that the Burns Night tradition is being actively followed and promoted?
 
I give up.
~Divine~Wind~ said:
Late to the game but as long as its not a Halls or a Vegan one you should be good :p
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I haven't see a Halls for years, they used to be supermarket staples down here. I'd actually rather have a Halls than a Simon Howie. Out of the literally dozens of different haggis I've tried, the Simon Howie one is the only one I've ever not liked.

Our haggis was excellent, really good.
 
WJA96 said:
Not a food snob at all, and if you really want to promote the Burns Night tradition, buy a haggis, not a big lamb sausage. If you can’t see the difference between something made with oatmeal (a haggis) and something made with fortified wheat flour rusk (a sausage) then knock yourself out on the MSG.
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I contacted Galloway about this.

"For every batch of Haggis we make, only 3% of the whole batch is seasoning. This seasoning contains the rusk etc. We by law must show that this contains rusk. As our Haggis is a 'proper' Haggis it does contain Pinhead oatmeal and Medium Oatmeal"

As always, it was damn good.
 
Hedge said:
I just had haggis with my Wetherspoons breakfast this morning
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That's what I miss about not being in Scotland, haggis with my breakfast. I spent a few weeks working in Corby, years ago and because of the huge numbers of Scots there, the hotel had it as part of the breakfast menu and I never tired of it.
 
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