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General Category => General Scottish => Topic started by: Mary on January 24, 2011, 07:29:10 PM

Title: Scots unveil healthy haggis-bid to persuade U.S. to end 40-year ban
Post by: Mary on January 24, 2011, 07:29:10 PM

Here's the article:   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350170/Healthy-haggis-unveiled-end-U-S-40-year-ban.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350170/Healthy-haggis-unveiled-end-U-S-40-year-ban.html)

Title: Re: Scots unveil healthy haggis-bid to persuade U.S. to end 40-year ban
Post by: Parker Thomson on January 25, 2011, 09:34:34 AM

Haggis was originally a survival food anyway.  When all the meat is consumed, you use whatever is left over in order to make a few more meals.  So I find it interesting that there are haggis "recipes", but I am not surprised that they vary.  The original "haggis" would have varied too depending on what ingredients were available.  For instance, here in the USA, I can't get a sheep's stomach very easily. Nor can I get sheep liver, lungs, or heart.  Lately, I have not even been able to get a collagen sack to replace the sheep stomach.  I have had to use calf liver & lamb shoulder in a 2 to 1 ration for the meat ingredients and create a stomach effect out of a metal bowl wrapped in tin foil. There your go- Scots' ingenuity all over it. And it's cheap too!  :-\

Cheers,
Parker
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