Special for Burns Night

[siestatime]

I was looking for haggis recipes for Burns Night, as you do, and found "Holy Willie's Prayer", described thus:

The poem is a piece of forensic psychology, as it diagnoses the dangerous, self-regarding mindset of the religious fanatic.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/events...ng/index.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/events/burns/reciting/index.shtml)

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

You like Haggis? I think it is is offal. ::)

[siestatime]

That's a typical visceral reaction ::)

[Legaleagle]

Apparently it's the "Great Cheiftan o' the puddin' race" but I wouldn't recommend it for pudding personally.

[siestatime]

Apparently it's the "Great Cheiftan o' the puddin' race" but I wouldn't recommend it for pudding personally.

Not with custard, anyway :tongue:

Has anyone here tried haggis, apart from me?

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

That's a typical visceral reaction ::)

I do actually love the taste of Haggis, but I thought I better get that joke in first.

Veggie haggis can also be very tasty, but I've tasted more disgusting ones than nice ones. In the end you can't beat the real thing though.

One of my summer jobs was actually in an abbatoir which specialised in lambs/sheep, so I am particularly well acquainted with the ingrediants ;). Contrary to popular opinion, that particular job just made me crave meat even more, as opposed to turning me off it.

[siestatime]

One of my summer jobs was actually in an abbatoir which specialised in lambs/sheep, so I am particularly well acquainted with the ingrediants ;).

Just as long as the boss didn't tell you to bury yourself in your work :cheesy:

That must have been an experience. Care to go into detail?

I worked for six months in a bakery and hated the sight, smell, taste and texture of cream cakes after three weeks.
Which was a shame, as we got half-price cakes and pastries.

I wish I knew how to do multiple quotes. :sad:

[brodski]

Not with custard, anyway :tongue:

Has anyone here tried haggis, apart from me?

I love haggis myself.

Unfortunately for burns night this year, Ill be in a nation where real haggis is (apparently) illegal. :(

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

I love haggis myself.

Unfortunately for burns night this year, Ill be in a nation where real haggis is (apparently) illegal. :(

England?

[Nudles]

England?

Probably (US of) America, sheep stomach is illegal to consume there.

Eat some "Americanised Haggis". ^-^

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

Just as long as the boss didn't tell you to bury yourself in your work :cheesy:

That must have been an experience. Care to go into detail?



Emmm, maybe a bit. >:D

It was just a summer job with the council, they offered me a post in the abattoir and I took it. It was an old fashioned building, a new place was being built elsewhere, so the only animals being slaughtered were sheep, apart from the odd pig or boar.

First day, I was given a shovel and a wheelbarrow. As the slaughtermen pulled out the innards (intestines, organs etc), I would scoop them along with the heads into the barrow and wheel them to a chute down to a skip. They went to a dog food factory I believe.

I must have done that quite well, because I was soon handling the hides and stomachs as well. O0

The hides would go to a different skip, and someone would come and colect them. The stomachs were cut open to empty them of the contents - a horrible green grassy liquid, and that smelled real bad - and then they were boiled into tripe, and that was sold, mainly as dog food again I think.

In my first week some sheep escaped and we were chasing them up the road in amongst traffic, it was quite comical to be honest.

After a while I started putting stunning the animals with a bolt to the head, and eventually was cutting their throats as well. Neither of which I should have been doing without a licence.

So you could say it was an interesting job, perhaps not for the squeamish, but then again, how do people think meat ends up in the supermarkets. it doesn't grow in a plastic tray ;)

It was maybe the beginnings of my skeptical awakening though. Seeing so many animals cut open and dismembered into their component parts, you really started to understand just how much of a machine we really are. Every animal was exactly the same inside - I know that sounds obvious, but laid out in front of you, you start to lappreciate just how similar every living being is. So after a short time it becomes normal, the same way that a surgeon has no qualms about cutting your skin or sawing your bones.

[siestatime]

Wow FarSide, (Not)licenced to kill ;)

As for the plastic tray comment, IMO some people do, to judge from their reactions when faced with the reality of how animals are dispatched and prepared for the supermarkets.
Or maybe they'd prefer not to think about it.

Did you see "Kill it, cook it, eat it?" or "Jamie's Fowl Dinners?"

The beginning of your skeptical awakening in an abbatoir. Conjures up some lovely images.

[Cuddles]

Veggie haggis

Vegetarian haggis? Now I've heard everything. How can you possibly have a vegetarian version of giblets boiled inside a stomach?

[siestatime]

Vegetarian haggis? Now I've heard everything. How can you possibly have a vegetarian version of giblets boiled inside a stomach?


It's amazing what you can make with TVP:

Quote from the Vegetarian Society:
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/soya.html

Textured Vegetable Protein

Textured vegetable protein is basically defatted soya flour which has been processed and dried to give a substance with a sponge-like texture which may be flavoured to resemble meat. Soya beans are dehulled and their oil extracted before being ground into flour. This flour is then mixed with water to remove soluble carbohydrate and the residue is textured by either spinning or extrusion. Extrusion involves passing heated soya residue from a high pressure area to a reduced pressure area through a nozzle resulting in the soya protein expanding. The soya protein is then dehydrated and may be either cut into small chunks or ground into granules.



Yummy ::)

[brodski]

Vegetarian haggis? Now I've heard everything. How can you possibly have a vegetarian version of giblets boiled inside a stomach?

No no, you misunderstand, it’s a haggis which as been raised on a purely vegetarian diet. It does improve the taste but unfortunately it does stunt their wing growth.

[siestatime]

;D;D;D

[Legaleagle]

I worked for six months in a bakery and hated the sight, smell, taste and texture of cream cakes after three weeks.
Which was a shame, as we got half-price cakes and pastries.

Funny, I worked for 2 months in a brewery when I was 18 just after I had done my O'levels. It didn't stop me liking beer at all. In fact, I can report that I am still addicted to the stuff.

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

Vegetarian haggis? Now I've heard everything. How can you possibly have a vegetarian version of giblets boiled inside a stomach?

Giblets refers to fowl only if I'm not mistaken 8)

[Cuddles]

Giblets refers to fowl only if I'm not mistaken 8)

Well, haggis is foul.:smiley:

[Mongrel]

Well, haggis is foul.:smiley:
The secret's in the Whisky gravy

You should have already polished off most of the bottle before making the gravy ;)

[siestatime]

You don't have to eat it if you don't want to.

Just eat the neeps and tatties.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Rather like veggie haggis meself. Takes all sorts, I dare say...

By the way, Burns really had it in for Holy Willie:
http://www.robertburns.org/works/59.shtml

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

You don't have to eat it if you don't want to.

Just eat the neeps and tatties.

Yuck. Neeps is by far the worst bit, haggis is gorgeous!