How true. True haggis uses sheep's lungs and other innards (an American
idiom) mixed with oatmeal stuffed into a sheep's stomach. Both lungs and
stomach are not considered consumable by the US FDA. That's weird since
intestines are considered consumable. And brains. And blood. (I'm eating
breakfast as I write this so I think I will stop now.) It is common in many
cultures to use everything but the oink, moo, baa, cluck, whatever. However,
we now live in a time of plenty (or, rather, excess). We have no shortage of
the good cuts and leave the less desirable cuts for the dog food industry.
There is a group of ladies with the St. Louis St. Andrews Society who gather
each year and prepare many, many pounds of haggis for the Burns banquet every
year. I don't know the recipe but it is all locally sourced (except, maybe for
the sherry). No lugs or stomach here but enough liver to make it necessary for
me to add a dash of gravy (amber bead).
"Weel are you wordy o' a grace as lang's my arm."
Dave Massey
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From: Andrew Uprichard <auprichard at uprichard.net>
To: 'Randall' <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>; 'DAVID MASSEY' <dave1massey at cs.com>;
triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
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Subject: RE: [TR] originally- Do people remember me?
I was a medical student in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the late 1970s. Money
was tight, but the students' union sold an inexpensive lunch of haggis,
fries (chips) and turnips (neaps). (Probably explains why Scotland, at the
time, had the highest incidence of coronary artery disease in the world).
Years later I attended a Burns dinner in Boston where they proudly marched
out the haggis. But it was really just meatloaf. Turns out that most of
the ingredients of the real stuff were offal, and banned from consumption in
the USA !
Andrew Uprichard
Jackson, Michigan
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From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Randall
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To: 'DAVID MASSEY'; triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] originally- Do people remember me?
> Perhaps we need a haggis list? (you know, to go with the single malt)
>
Ah! Suddenly the light dawns! Yes, a wee dram or two (or three) would make
the haggis taste much better!
But we only got served haggis in the morning, and all the taste tests were
in the afternoon.
<G>
-- Randall
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