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BaronJ said:
Haggis have longer legs on one side so they can graze on slopes !
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That explains why their guts are the only parts people will buy.

Might explain why cars over there drive on the wrong side of the road too. Wheels on the right side are prolly bigger.
 
Hi Susquatch, Guys,
Poor old Norman, he would be laughing his socks off now ! Another Sassenach to take a rise out of, he would say. Surprisingly many fell for it.
One of his favorite jokes was to tell newcomers about his haggis breeding. How you would have to train them to run clockwise so they didn't fall over, and you had to keep them in sheds with sloping roofs so they could stand up straight.
Sadly now pushing up daisies. RIP Norman.

HAGGIS.
Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish made with sheep's heart, liver, lungs, and stomach, mixed with oatmeal, spices, and stock. It is often served with neeps and tatties (mashed turnips and potatoes) and whisky at a Burns supper, a celebration of the poet Robert Burns.

Not legal in the USA, I don't know about Canada.
 
BaronJ said:
Hi Susquatch, Guys,
Poor old Norman, he would be laughing his socks off now ! Another Sassenach to take a rise out of, he would say. Surprisingly many fell for it.
One of his favorite jokes was to tell newcomers about his haggis breeding. How you would have to train them to run clockwise so they didn't fall over, and you had to keep them in sheds with sloping roofs so they could stand up straight.
Sadly now pushing up daisies. RIP Norman.

HAGGIS.
Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish made with sheep's heart, liver, lungs, and stomach, mixed with oatmeal, spices, and stock. It is often served with neeps and tatties (mashed turnips and potatoes) and whisky at a Burns supper, a celebration of the poet Robert Burns.

Not legal in the USA, I don't know about Canada.
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Britain is the worst country for butchering the English language. I can understand scouse and Yorkies but Birmingham is another level. How is it that a country the size of Rhode Island can have 17 dialects?

I was more familiar with Robert Service, the cremation of Sam McGee? Robert burns I don't know really
 
BaronJ said:
HAGGIS.
Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish made with sheep's heart, liver, lungs, and stomach, mixed with oatmeal, spices, and stock. It is often served with neeps and tatties (mashed turnips and potatoes) and whisky at a Burns supper, a celebration of the poet Robert Burns.
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And definitive proof of Scots being cheaper than Jews.

I mean, we've got deli.
 
I take it that you guys have never eaten Haggis, and I don't mean the plastic packaged muck sold in the supermarket called Haggis !
Its a very tasty meal. A lot of local butchers make and sell Haggis year round, you can recognise the recipe mix in the different areas. The more North that you go the spicier, the Whisky isn't mandatory but does compliment the taste, however it is needed for the toast to the Bard.

Before anybody asks, I am a Yorkshire man and proud of it !
 
BaronJ said:
I take it that you guys have never eaten Haggis, and I don't mean the plastic packaged muck sold in the supermarket called Haggis !
Its a very tasty meal. A lot of local butchers make and sell Haggis year round, you can recognise the recipe mix in the different areas. The more North that you go the spicier, the Whisky isn't mandatory but does compliment the taste, however it is needed for the toast to the Bard.

Before anybody asks, I am a Yorkshire man and proud of it !
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I googled it. According to Google Haggis is pudding made from minced sheep's heart, liver, and lungs, mixed with oatmeal, suet, onions, and spices.

Ain't happening. Zero interest in eating that.

I also read that it is illegal in North America because of the health risks.

I have no clue what a "Yorkshire Man" is much less why anyone would be proud of it. But I've heard of Yorkshire pudding, so I'm thinking it must be like Haggis with even more organ parts in it. Hoping that isn't true. Please educate me.
 
Hi Susquatch, Guys,
A Yorkshire Man, is someone that has been born in Yorkshire and brought up here !
I won't repeat the Yorkshire motto, you can look that up for yourself.

If you like pancakes then you have eaten Yorkshire Pudding ! Its simply the same batter cooked in a different way. Pass the Maple Syrup...

One common way of eating Yorkshire puds, is baked with mashed potatoes and having pork or beef sausage's in it then gravy poured on it !
Almost a Yorkshire delicacy ! A common and popular meal particularly in the North of England.
 
Susquatch said:
I googled it. According to Google Haggis is pudding made from minced sheep's heart, liver, and lungs, mixed with oatmeal, suet, onions, and spices.

I also read that it is illegal in North America because of the health risks.
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While I can't speak specifically to the haggis case, and though there may be grains of truth to what you say, sweeping statements like that are almost always bullshit. For a start, food safety regulations are set nationally, not continentally, and with something like this the restrictions are normally on importation, which itself has more to do with the possibility of moving foreign pathogens into local livestock and crops. That's why customs is going to nick that black/blood pudding that you try to bring back from the UK, not because they give a toss about your health.

As far as making (and consuming) it yourself, I don't think the government has any say in the matter. We've learned that there are some things that just aren't a good idea to eat, among them brains (for the risk of prion transmission). But I don't think I've ever heard of problems stemming from consumption of the organs named (after all, nothing at all weird about eating beef heart - that's just a muscle - and beef liver is perfectly normal), so I can't see the sheep version getting singled out for special treatment. And though lungs seem a little stranger, prolly nothing wrong with that - unless the sheep had a pack-a-day habit. So I'm sure anyone who wants to make it would just have to visit a proper country butcher to have no trouble at all getting the necessary bits.
 
BaronJ said:
If you like pancakes then you have eaten Yorkshire Pudding ! Its simply the same batter cooked in a different way. Pass the Maple Syrup...
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All very boring. I didn't see animal guts in that recipe anywhere except maybe the sausage casings.

For the record, my Italian wife makes better yorkshire pudding than you yorkshire boys have ever tasted. Makes her own batter, toasts them up brown, fluffy, and full of gravy pockets, add butter to melt in and then her own beef or turkey gravy. AMAZING. There was a reason the Brits and Roman's kept raiding back an forth and it had nothing to do with religion. It was all about Italian women and their cooking......
 
someidiot said:
While I can't speak specifically to the haggis case, and though there may be grains of truth to what you say, sweeping statements like that are almost always bullshit.
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First and foremost, I was having fun! This was never meant to be more than a humour filled poke at our limey buddy in Yorkshire! If it was on the web and sounded bad, I copied it. Nothing more or less intended.

If my post pissed you off, then I FAILED MISERABLY!!! And I apologize for my badly aimed pokes. I promise to try much harder to make you laugh!

On a serious note, as I recall, it is not allowed to be imported into North America (Canada, US, and Mexico) for health concerns related to animal lungs which can carry certain pathogens harmful to human consumption. Seems to me that I also read that a newer formula that does not contain lung tissue is allowed.

In any event, I don't eat animal guts. That stuff all belongs in a gut pile in the bush. (Another try at making you laugh).
 
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