Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge! Each day in April (except Sundays) I’ll be posting about unusual and exotic foods.
I know some of you have eaten haggis. What did you think? It’s a Scottish dish, made of sheep’s heart, liver, and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock and cooked, traditionally, in the sheep’s stomach. served with “neeps” (turnips) and “tatties” (potatoes), it appears on the plate like a crumbly sausage. It’s traditionally made with the sheep’s organs, but can be cooked with lamb, beef, pork, or rabbit.
Historically, the hunters would return with their game kill, and the organs that would go bad the earliest had to be cooked. The animal’s stomach was used to hold all the ingredients. You simmer it in a pot for hours, but you don’t want the stomach lining to burst, now do you? No, you don’t.
So, would you eat a hot steaming plate of haggis? And if you have, how was it?
Martha Reynolds Writes 
I’ll pass thank you
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I’ve read so much about haggis from books set in Scotland. I think I’d give it a try.
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This do not sounds awful, why not give it a try? ;D
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When I was in Ireland, my friends had haggis and I ordered a vegetarian version, which was very good (at that time, I was a vegetarian, so I jad a good excuse!)
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I really like vegetarian haggis. Not tried the real thing though.
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I have not had Haggis, I am more likely to try it now than I wouldhave previously , because your description of haggis was actually very appetizing to me.
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I have eaten haggis when we went to Scotland and Ireland on an anniversary trip. It wasn’t that bad! Really. I suppose it’s one of those dishes “it’s all in how it’s prepared”. Not sure. But we both ate it and finished it off our plates. I will admit that I focused on other things and not what I was actually eating. And least there were no insects!!! lol
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OK……Count me as another person who has at least heard of it! Is that progress?
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Progress! 👏👏👏
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Had it. Wouldn’t go out of my way…but wouldn’t turn it down if offered by hosts.
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I guess if I were someone’s guest, I wouldn’t want to offend. But like you, I wouldn’t seek it out. Thanks, Steve!
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That actually sounds pretty tasty!
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Well, Deb, you can try it first!
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Well, at least this is something I too have heard of, but NO again. I’m gonna go bake some cookies.
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HAHAHAHA! Love you, Denise!
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No and no. Life is too short.
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I’m with you, Linda
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No way! Hear Gordon Ramsey talk about it on his show sometimes, but I don’t think I could eat it even if it were prepared by a great chef!
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Same here
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