On haggis

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I notice it's a thing around here.

Personally, I love haggis. I've had it here in the US. I've had it in Scotland (where I was told that the only people who order haggis in a restaurant are "Americans on holiday"). I've had it in Ireland.

I love haggis.

My stepfather, who embraces his Scottish heritage thoroughly, loathes haggis. And my whole family thinks I'm weird. But I love haggis.

Fight me.

ETA:
I even wrote a blog post about my family's relationship to haggis, http://underpope.com/bloginomicon/2002/09/why-my-family-thinks-im-weird/
 
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I don't mind the taste of haggis, but I don't care for the texture of the spongy little bits of lung.
 

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Oooh, I love black pudding as well.

When I was traveling through Ireland with a friend back in '01, I would always order a full Irish breakfast. And my friend, who was normally one not to eschew unusual foods, would stare at me in horror each time I ate the black pudding.

This same friend once dared me to eat Rocky Mountain oysters when we were in South Dakota. I did, and she stared in horror.
 

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Black pudding doesn't seem like "unusual food" to me. It's just something that you have in a fried breakfast along with bacon and sausage (not the healthiest thing in the world, but nice to have occasionally).

I ate chicken gizzards in Bulgaria. Tasty, but I had to close my eyes to eat them!

When I was in America, I had a corn dog and couldn't finish it. I like hot dogs, and I like corn, but together they are quite stomach-turning.
 

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I can't say whether I'd try haggis, because I've oft thought myself brave enough to try a certain food and then found myself balking when the food was actually before me.

Crickets. Mopani worm. Crocodile tail. I could have nibbled on any of those but didn't. I didn't even try the springbok, and heck, that's just antelope.

I've got Scottish ancestry, so I'm curious about haggis, but my kneejerk revulsion for weird foods is both sneaky and strong.
 

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I've had vegetarian haggis in Scotland, and it is amazing.
 

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My parents gave me two cans of haggis for Christmas one year. One was regular, the other vegetarian. The vegetarian haggis had more saturated fat than the regular. I don't know why.
 

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You know... way back when, I wasn't all that keen about Haggis.

I didn't really have a choice and had to give it go. If you had read as much as I had about Haggis then you would have had been just as leery, but it wasn't so bad. Actually, after awhile, I got quite used to Haggis. Haggis became a pretty regular staple. The best way I found to handle Haggis was with a bottle of 18 year old Laphroaig single malt scotch. A good single malt always seemed to make Haggis more palatable.

Looking back on it I can say that it was good for me to have set aside all those preconceptions. I actually miss Haggis now, and as much as I never thought I would say this... I might just miss Haggis as much as I do Silverfish.

*removes tongue from cheek*

*whistles away*
 

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I've never given Haggis much thought in the past either. But I'm with Kelly on this one... I miss the offal guy..
 

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Yep, a can.

I actually have three cans of haggis in the house: two regular, one vegetarian. But they've been with us since before we moved, ten years ago. Needless to say, I am wary of trying them.
 

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Yep, a can.

I actually have three cans of haggis in the house: two regular, one vegetarian. But they've been with us since before we moved, ten years ago. Needless to say, I am wary of trying them.

That is an abomination.
 

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The trouble with Haggis is catching the wee buggers. They're sneaky, but because their legs are shorter on one side than the other, they can only run one way round a hill. This makes it easier, as you can predict where they'll end up.

They can give you a nasty nip though.
 

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The trouble with Haggis is catching the wee buggers. They're sneaky, but because their legs are shorter on one side than the other, they can only run one way round a hill. This makes it easier, as you can predict where they'll end up.

They can give you a nasty nip though.

I think it's also important to only hunt free-range Haggis.
 

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My stepfather, who doesn't like haggis in spite of his having embraced his Scottish heritage, participates in an online haggis hunt every year. I guess it's a "catch-and-release" thing.