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New Re: Shopping Day Again
It's hard to get haggis really wrong. It's basically random organs, eyelids, and arseholes, all minced up, with some starch and other stuff. Add a spice mix that invariably ends up just tasting of salt and black or white pepper, and away you go. Boil it for decades, and serve a bit of the slop with some tatties and neeps.

For all that it sounds quite unappealing, I'm very partial to haggis (and other things made from the bits that usually get chucked away/poured down the plughole, like black pudding - primary ingredient: blood) and will very often have it if available. It's often on the breakfast menu, in the place where black pudding would be in England, and white pudding in Ireland.

I have been to plenty of Burns Nights events both native Scots and elsewhere, and piping the haggis in is unusual at best. At these events food always plays a minor role because it's really all about the whisky.

As you note, your chance of actually getting Scottish haggis from Scotland is effectively zero, so you're probably going to have to chat up a sheep farmer or slaughterhouse to see if you can get the requisite bits.

In Scotland (and the rest of the UK and Ireland, tbh) you just buy it in the supermarket. It's next to the sausages.
New tatties and neeps?
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Drew
New Tatties and neeps.
New Re: tatties and neeps?
That's mashed Potatoes and mashed Rutabaga. Yes, both on the same plate.
New "it's really all about the whiskey"
Ah, yes. Single Malt Scotch - a potion you described (a few years back) as tasting like "paint stripper". I have always wondered how much paint stripper you drank in order to know this.
New Quite a bit.
I can now tell the difference between a Speyside paint stripper and an Islay paint stripper.

The main difference being that Islay paint stripper also tastes like it's been on fire.
     Shopping Day Again - (Andrew Grygus) - (10)
         Re: Shopping Day Again - (pwhysall) - (5)
             tatties and neeps? -NT - (drook) - (2)
                 Tatties and neeps. -NT - (pwhysall)
                 Re: tatties and neeps? - (Andrew Grygus)
             "it's really all about the whiskey" - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                 Quite a bit. - (pwhysall)
         The best haggis - (drook) - (3)
             The main difference I see . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                 Steel cut oats is, AIUI, the stuff... - (CRConrad) - (1)
                     Steel Cut Oats . . . - (Andrew Grygus)

Pavlov would have wanted it this way.
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