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Heads up for free haggis
In todays Glasgow herald there is a voucher for a free tin of Grants Haggis.
The voucher can be found on page 18 and is redeamable at Peckhams until 31 January.
So go on and celebrate Robert Burns birthday on the 25th.
Once you have consumed the haggis you can always use the tin as a billy.
Sorry guys I think this offer is only available in Scotland.
Cheers
JFW
I'm already getting free haggis .:yumyum: I'm guest if honour at my aunt's on Tuesday.
I love having Scottish lineage.
Heads up for free haggis
In todays Glasgow herald there is a voucher for a free tin of Grants Haggis.
"Tinned" haggis? - I prefer to catch my own. The best technique (for the benefit of all you non-scots) is the reverse-chase method.
Haggis (or plural haggi) have one leg shorter than the other to make it easier to run round the tops of mountains, so by chasing them round the mountain top the 'wrong' way, they fall over and are easily caught in a special haggis net. (Like a butterfly net, but bigger).
:wink:
I prefer the other method.
Adult haggis are drawn to a good single malt. You secrete a small 'tapetain' in a heather bush beside trail and when the haggis goes to investigate it the snare traps it ready to dispatch it.
The malt mustn't be too smokey though. They don't like that...and won't touch Bells or Grouse (mind you, no self respecting Scot would!!!)
Yes the reverse chase method is good but I prefer to just sneak up on a haggis and give it a fright, it runs off round the hill and then I just make a brew and wait for it to come from the other direction and bag it. Simple but effective.
Cheers
JFW
giancarlo
21-01-2005, 17:01
heh, when i was in Antigua for my little brother's wedding, we went on a 4x4 safari tour.
The guide was asking us about haggis... "is it true it's a bird with one leg shorter than the other that they chase on the mountains and have to kill it on one day with a special haggis sword"
first time i'd heard of that wind up... very funny... did i set him straight though?? hmmm ;)
another good trapping method is before deepfrying mars bars,add some wood alcohol to the batter mix,deep fry the mars bar ,and dice it into small pieces,then scatter it about a known haggis habitat.the haggis pass out and are easy to dispatch.NB too little wood alcohol and the haggis remains conscious,too much and it will utter the imortal line 'whit you looking at pal '.run.quickly.
Justin Time
21-01-2005, 19:15
The truth about Haggis.....
Haggis Encyclopedia (http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/haggisclopedia.cfm)
You mean the one leg shorter than the other thing ISN'T TRUE!!! :cry:
I'm sueing my parents...next thing you'll be telling me that the jabberwocky doesn't exist. :shock:
:rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao:
I'm sueing my parents...next thing you'll be telling me that the jabberwocky doesn't exist. :shock:
Ah, now there's a memory!
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe"
etc, etc. :-)
Must dig his poms out again. Brilliant guy.
next thing you'll be telling me that the jabberwocky doesn't exist. :shock:
sorry kim but he doesnt... anymore
"One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back."
OK who is the guy and why should he be freed? Mac
Lewis Carol. Wrote some great stuff.
BIG-TARGET
22-01-2005, 11:51
This is one negative about being a Yank!!!
I've heard of haggis, but what is in it????
arctic hobo
22-01-2005, 19:26
You certainly don't know much about haggis if you're asking what's in it... not a question that's wise to ask :shock: :rolmao:
BIG-TARGET
22-01-2005, 19:28
That is why I asked!! :roll:
This will whet your appetite for more: http://www.smart.net/~tak/haggis.html#three
arctic hobo
22-01-2005, 19:31
That is why I asked!! :roll:
Nono, I meant you won't like the answer :lol: But it is nice, you just pretend you don't know what's in it.
Big-Target,
It sounds to me like the Scottish version of scrapple. You being from Cherry Hill should be well versed in scrapple. Philadelphia is the only place in the world that holds a scrapplefest.
Scrapple is made from the... scraps, to put it nicely. Basically when they butcher a hog they sweep up whatever falls off and press it into blocks. It is one of those things you just don't ask about and don't care for unless you grew up not knowing what it was. Mac
BIG-TARGET
28-01-2005, 21:06
Big-Target,
It sounds to me like the Scottish version of scrapple. You being from Cherry Hill should be well versed in scrapple. Philadelphia is the only place in the world that holds a scrapplefest.
Scrapple is made from the... scraps, to put it nicely. Basically when they butcher a hog they sweep up whatever falls off and press it into blocks. It is one of those things you just don't ask about and don't care for unless you grew up not knowing what it was. Mac
Then all I need is some scrambled eggs to go with it!!!! :You_Rock_ :biggthump
I've made haggis properly, and it's not scraps, it's good food. Yes, it's organ meats, but so are the vast majority of sausages (mechanically rcovered somethings). The only truly gross bit is boiling the lights to get the gunk out then it just smells savoury.
Now a singed sheeps heid...... :shock: Actually, I don't think that'd be allowed now, BSE, etc. My grandpa loved the brains and he lived to be 97!
Toddy
Toddy,
Reading the recipes haggis does sound more wholesome than scrapple. Boiled in a stomach... And to think I've been just throwing them away! Mac
Dorian Gra
19-05-2005, 17:01
O well if you are that easily put off by haggis and it's contents i wont tell you how yuo make black pudding (which funnily enough isn't a pudding) :D