Ha!

[mbarrick]

No haggis for you!

Comments

[sleeplessknight.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I've never had haggis before. And dispite all the stories I hear about it, I'd like to try it at least once. I enjoy tasting new exotic foreign foods. ^_^

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Depends on if you like organ meat. If you like liver or kidneys then you would probably like haggis. Like Nimrod says below, haggis isn't that different than bangers (which I know you like) but the meat involved is pretty much all organ meat, which personally I don't like. I can't stand the grittiness. I'm not to fond of black pudding (blood sausage) for the same reason... nothing wrong with the taste, just than damned "dirt" texture that I don't like.

Fried Black Pudding

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Probably the worst thing - in terms of being "healthy" - that I have eaten was some deep fried black pudding I had for breakfast in Dublin. Great solution to a night of hard pub-crawling; not a great health solution unless you wish to have a year's intake of carcenogenics and grease/animal fat with every bite. It was so deep-fired that when you tried to cut it, it'd often just shatter into pieces. No small wonder that Irish people are heavy drinkers - they need the booze to soak up all of their fried black pudding.

I have read that in Mongolia, you can get stuffed sheep's rectum as a delicacy.

Overrated

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Haggis is overrated. It's not much different than spicy bangers (English sausages) except not as greasy.

The mystic of haggis is because you KNOW EXACTLY that you're eating something stuffed in a sheep's stomach. With sausages - and especially English bangers or blood pudding - you never quite know what you're consuming... and probably don't want to know.