So haggis, classic or dud?
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:54 (nineteen years ago)
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:55 (nineteen years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:57 (nineteen years ago)
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:57 (nineteen years ago)
I'm having a Burns themed party on Sunday. Because my housewarming party last year was on Burns night, the one year anniversary will also involve whisky, neeps and tatties (curried) and perhaps poetry. Who knows.
― The Whistling Bus (kate), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)
Might not be my first actually, as a nipper in Scotland I was probably weaned on the stuff until we moved away and left a baby with a strange craving for black pudding.
xpost: vegetarians how on EARTH do you have a veggie haggis?! Quorn stomachs?! That's more repulsive than the idea of, of, actually I can't think of anything - oh yes, QUICHE!
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 25 January 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)
(it's great from a chip shop with brown sauce)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)
*Optional.
p.s. veggie haggis is surprisingly good.
― jimn (jimnaseum), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)
― The Whistling Bus (kate), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:07 (nineteen years ago)
(I might be thinking of hogmanay but whatever..)
We cooked a massive one (had it broiling while we were out and about, but by the time we got back to base, there was only five of us left, and they all went er and ew.
So I took it to a different friends house the next night, and we scoffed most of it on toast. Were we ill? No we were not.
Today: Whole family really love it (including miss picky amber) so will be out .. presumably Sainsbury's will have some.
xpost he's a good dunfermline lad himself! (David Byrne, that is)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)
Yep. You still have to catch them by putting salt on their tails though.
― C J (C J), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:11 (nineteen years ago)
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:13 (nineteen years ago)
I think I am a rockist about this - a vegetable mash in a man-made casing aint a haggis! I'm not saying it isn't tasty, or that I wouldn't eat five of them, and in fact a dinner of all the haggises would be the best thing ever - but, you know.
Well I'm starving now so HOPE YOU LOT ARE ALL HAPPY.
xpost: madchen I hope you will be FLINGING.
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:16 (nineteen years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)
might get a veggie one this lunchtime. i'll see.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:23 (nineteen years ago)
― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)
One of my enduring memories is standing on stage at The Burns Club reciting Tam o'Shanter to a smoky room full of ruddy faced old men in kilts.
A few years before I graduated onto the hardcore Burns I performed 'Ally Bally Bee' in front of the same crowd, clutching a tartan adorned black dolly.
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Vampires Eat Christians (The GZeus), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)
my mum is from edinburgh (corstorphine) and when i was a little kid i happened to be good at calligraphy and would write out burns poems as little gifts... awww...
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2006/03/06/crash372.jpg
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Friday, 26 January 2007 01:26 (nineteen years ago)
and then we watched celeb big bro, v. trad
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)
no haggis at tesco ;_;
none in sainsbury's either, so i changed tack and made chicken with courgette and broccoli in a creme fraiche sauce with tomato couscous. it were fuckin' lovely.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:12 (nineteen years ago)
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)
the noo.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:24 (nineteen years ago)
We had veggie haggis, tatties, and spinach. Yum I love spinach. Then Mister Monkey made a whiskey cocktail, because I don't like whiskey. It had whiskey, lemon juice, kahlua, and triple sec in it. It was really good, but a little sweet.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:30 (nineteen years ago)
Glenn Wool - Canadian - very much more my sort of thing.. More a performance. He started out with 2 tester jokes. The one about liking the band Franz Ferdinand but thinking about assassinating them just to see how it got reported.. Only Dawn and I laughed. Conversely, the joke about a-sx brought the house down. So it went that way for a while until most of the audience got more and more uncomfortable (which was the aim..) Excellent stuff..
Adam Bloom - More the classic altcom style, handled heckles as suggestions and worked them in no problem. Also bril.
I used to go see a lot of comedy night such like this, back in the day, but got bored to death when the edgy/different stuff went out, and the 'observational comedy' ruled. OK, so girls use more bogroll, I don't need to talk about it for 15 mins!
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:44 (nineteen years ago)
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)
"Ally Bally Bee" always makes me cry a little bit, I think it's the tune moe than the words
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:17 (nineteen years ago)
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/122/369717414_7ec26460d0.jpg?v=0
― Ed (dali), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)
― The Whistling Bus (kate), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)
there was an interesting article on haggis (i can't believe i just typed that) in the metro area in the dining section of the times on weds. as far as burns dinners go, it only mentioned private clubs but there were interviews with several butchers in kearny, nj who make and ship haggis if you want to do your own meal. i suspect that kearny might be the place to go if you really want to find a place that serves it.
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/369599451_8816679387.jpg
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)
xpost re: kearny
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)
i really love haggis (i haven't looked for it in here though. it's gotta be around.)
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)
that's what it looks like to me. it was available as a jacket potato topping in glasgow, but i chickened out due to severe hangover.
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)
it still is. it's all a friend of mine ate for a week once because safeway had their own brand on sale for 99p. he was in our office a lot at the time, and you do not even want to know about the digestive fallout.
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)
There's yr problem, in a nutshell. Romanticised views of "the old country" abound, perhaps best summed up by the woman who runs a winery Ned drank a bottle from at a recent meal. She describes her heritage as coming from "the glen village of Falkirk". Yes, Falkirk. The Falkirk that Arab Strap come from.
When I was growing up we had haggis maybe once a fortnight, basically because it was cheap.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)
hahahhahahahahah FUCKING HELL.
you sure she didn't say "the glum spillage of falkirk" or something?
growing up in blackpool, the child of highlanders, i ate haggis at least once a week. marks and spencer sold the stuff, for fuck's sake. i never knew there was anything particularly romantic/burnsian/whatever about it until i was 14; it was just a nice dinner we had. better than chicken kievs; not quite as good as mum's fried fish.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)
bought my haggis for Monday.
― Isambard Kingdom Buñuel (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:21 (sixteen years ago)
I won't be eating any but I will in fact be in the same room as a haggis tonight.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:27 (sixteen years ago)
Monday! Thanks for the reminder, always forget this.
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:48 (sixteen years ago)
no haggis to be found in the immediate vicinity, cockaleekie perhaps...
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 22 January 2010 00:01 (sixteen years ago)
dudes what the hell is in vegetarian haggis and is that really haggis?
― thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Friday, 22 January 2010 00:55 (sixteen years ago)
Djing a Burns' Night thing. Supposed to be a mix of trad and modern pop. No idea how I'm gonna manage it. Still, free haggis for me.
― grobravara hollaglob (dowd), Friday, 22 January 2010 01:35 (sixteen years ago)
By which I mean: Help! I don't think I can mix the Alexander Brothers into Glasvegas into Jimmy Shand into Goodbye Mr Mackenzie...
― grobravara hollaglob (dowd), Friday, 22 January 2010 02:23 (sixteen years ago)
a block of trad and then a crowd pleaser of modern pop and that will keep the dancefloor full of the easily scared and then into DJ's choice. Do the opposite to go back and maybe see if there are any Modern pop songs that you can dashing white seargeant to.
lol at Goodbye Mr Mackenzie though.....
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 22 January 2010 13:55 (sixteen years ago)
I'll be okay if I never do the Gay Gordon's again, I think.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Friday, 22 January 2010 14:45 (sixteen years ago)
blast this bad jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojpy8yYTU6w
― Isambard Kingdom Buñuel (jim in glasgow), Friday, 22 January 2010 16:38 (sixteen years ago)
i love laurel in a kilt itt.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 15 January 2011 05:53 (fifteen years ago)
I've never eaten it, I have one in the fridge and intend to try it over the weekend. Should've had it on Tuesday really, but didn't realise it was Burns Night till after I'd eaten. Should I bake my haggis or boil it?
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 28 January 2011 14:42 (fifteen years ago)
Boil.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:48 (fifteen years ago)
Wrap in foil and put in a dish of water in the oven.
― ailsa, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:57 (fifteen years ago)
So it's completely immersed?
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:01 (fifteen years ago)
I had a bag of haggis flavored chips the other day but I think it was just 'pork flavoring' according to the bag
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
Not completely immersed, no.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 January 2011 15:10 (fifteen years ago)
Just a couple of inches of water in the bottom of the dish. 45 minutes per pound. I tried doing it in a steamer last time and it didn't work as well. I think boiling it would run the risk of it going too watery.
― ailsa, Friday, 28 January 2011 15:12 (fifteen years ago)
The haggis was nice enough, but not my favourite thing ever. It reminded me most of a more offally black pudding. I think I overcooked it a bit though, and it was only a three quid one from Sainsburys.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 4 February 2011 00:04 (fourteen years ago)
haggis shouldn't = black pudding. should be spicier, meatier, moister.
― hoisin crispy mubaduck (ledge), Friday, 4 February 2011 12:36 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/1I5hQkj.png
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:07 (nine years ago)
now i'm hungry
― i do not sense the entity ted (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:38 (nine years ago)
me sorted for thursday
https://i.imgur.com/0SGI1Dz.png
― mark s, Monday, 22 January 2024 15:48 (two years ago)
sorry. no haggis. the nearest approach I could make would be a bowl of oatmeal.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:25 (two years ago)
BELCH! BURP!
― mark s, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:53 (two years ago)
im on a keto diet right now so neeps & tatties will have to wait a few weeks 😔 but its poetic haggisday and here we are (see image above for rare footage of me for the rest of the day)
― mark s, Saturday, 25 January 2025 15:00 (one year ago)
an image search for 'wild haggis' or 'haggis animal' now turns up a load of ai shit :(
― birming man (ledge), Saturday, 25 January 2025 16:52 (one year ago)