Haggis, Born in TheUSA
Wed January 21, 2004 08:22 AM ET
By Trevor Datson
LONDON (Reuters) - A tiny Scottish firm has teamed up with a U.S. company to start the first industrial-scale production in America of Scotland's national dish -- haggis.
Stahly Quality Foods, which employs just four people in the industrial new town of Glenrothes, believes the joint venture with a Chicago-based food processor can move 300,000 tins of the offal-based delicacy in its first year....
posted on January 21, 2004 06:05:57 PM new
"Haggis is prepared in a sheep's stomach and is steamed or baked and served hot, but can also be revived when cold with a dash of scotch. Stahly will initially be offering two varieties from the Chicago plant -- traditional and vegetarian.
The recipes, like the identity of the U.S. partner, are a closely guarded commercial secret, but most traditional haggis contains liver, heart, tripes, oatmeal, suet and spices.
It also traditionally contains "lights," or lungs."
No thank you
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posted on January 21, 2004 06:38:34 PM new"The recipes, like the identity of the U.S. partner, are a closely guarded commercial secret, but most traditional haggis contains liver, heart, tripes, oatmeal, suet and spices."
It seems to be associated with scotch whisky. Maybe it's a good idea to be drunk before tasting it?
With mad cow disease under investigation I don't think that this will be a successful venture...but who knows?
posted on January 21, 2004 09:03:10 PM new
Wednesday, 23 May, 2001
UK Police probe haggis 'hate crime' Greater Manchester Police are investigating the incident
A Scottish woman has had a haggis thrown through her front window in a possible racist attack, police have confirmed.
Christine MacKinnon, 45, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was the subject of verbal abuse telling her to go back to Scotland.
The attack happened on Sunday while Ms MacKinnon was on holiday in Dublin.
Greater Manchester Police say they are investigating the incident.
Her eldest daughter Nicola, 23, who had been looking after her siblings Ashley, 11 and Scott, 15, returned to find the traditional dish in the front room surrounded by broken glass.
A haggis was thrown through the window,
Ms MacKinnon said: "If I didn't feel so intimidated and frightened by all this I would find it quite funny. A haggis in your front room is just too ridiculous for words."
Ms MacKinnon, who moved to England from Glasgow when she was 11, said her family had been victimised for the last two years.
She said: "They chant and shout at me 'f-off back to Scotland'. They tease my daughter, who is deaf, and now she doesn't want to play outside."
A police spokeswoman said they were treating the incident as a "hate crime" and that the haggis had been removed for examination.
posted on January 21, 2004 09:34:12 PM new
I ate Haggis in Scotland....it's kind of bland, for all the "parts" it includes. When I was a kid, the old women used to make a similar, and IMO much tastier Spanish version. "Morcilla de Sangre", or blood sausage, is a lamb or kid goat's stomach, stuffed with the blood collected at slaughter, along with chile peppers, lots of garlic and spices, and thickened with cornmeal. Nobody knows how to make it anymore, and even if they did, nobody but me would eat it.........buncha darn wimps
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posted on January 22, 2004 05:15:30 AM new
thanks for the link plsmith, that sausage is good, but it's in a regular gut casing, not a stomach...makes a difference in taste for sure
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