Burns Night - Haggis!

Muban said:
A bit late replying, can't say I've noticed any weird smells when boiling a haggis. I had MacSweens this year, If you can't get to the butcher it's the best of the ones you can easily get n a suprmarket. Though I do like a Haggis supper from the chippie or the traditional haggis, neeps and tatties I have been known to have haggis nachos :D
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Haggis Nachos!?!?!

Now this is something I'm gonna have to try!
 
I don't like the Simon Howie one either as I had it once and that was enough! Yuck!!

I've not heard of Halls haggis so just went looking online for it as haggis is one of my favourite meals. I found this and no way I'm going to try it but maybe one of you will be braver?!

Irun Bru Haggis!! :eek:

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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.
 
Feek said:
I give up.

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.
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Halls of Broxburn went bust in 2012 having been bought and sold by a variety of venture capitalists before being run into the ground by Dutch pork mega-company Vion. The brand and intellectual property of Halls is now owned by Scottish pork mega-company Brown Brothers. I worked at Halls in the summer holidays in 1982, 1983 and 1984 and made black pudding, haggis and sausages. I liked Halls haggis although it was cracked-barley based rather than oats.
 
Feek said:
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.
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So why isn’t oatmeal on the list of ingredients? Oh-oh! What else is in it that they’re not declaring?
 
“For those who don't know, haggis is made by putting the internal organs of a sheep inside of its stomach"

Dear god :( that put me off straight away. Disgusting.
 
Philtor said:
Im sure the sheep are ever so grateful :D
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You’re lucky to live in a world where you can choose what you eat and have your diet supplemented with synthetic vitamins, minerals and concentrated plant proteins. When haggis was invented people were so impoverished they couldn’t get the nice bits of the sheep. They doubtless fantasised about getting a bit of leg or shoulder or even neck. No, the best they could afford was the really cheap bits - not even the kidneys or the liver. They got the heart and lungs and the smallest of the sheep’s 4 stomachs. And they mixed it with the oatmeal and barley they usually ate as porridge. And it’s really nutritious. And they were REALLY grateful. Because they were just alive and just that was something to celebrate.
 
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