I'm cooking a haggis...
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Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
The possessive fanny? Never heard of her. Buy then again, Im always confused between the American and British use of the term fanny. Hmmmm, maybe not the possessive. If you don't know about apostrophes you may well have capitalized incorrectly as well. This is just gross, in the American sense, that is.
snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
You are Patrick Stephen and ICMFP.
You Sir are a genius, I have a little left over haggis in the freezer. I know what we are having on Sunday.
growingvegetables
Guru
- Location
- Leeds
That reminds me - off to Asda tomorrow to buy their remaining tins of haggis. Great for heating up on a stove on a camping trip. 
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Potato wedges?
FrankCrank
Old layabout
...aren't they just glorified faggots?......
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
No neeps and tatties, the shame.
The mash was neeps and tatties. Is that wrong, threeblancsmcginty?
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Yes. Too mashy.
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Pentlands & West Lothian
From Wiki, faggots appear to be mostly pig and to include some actual meat.
Haggis, the chieftain of the pudding race, are from sheep, heart, liver and lungs, wrapped in the stomach. No actual meat.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
When my kids were younger we took them on a holiday to Dumfries and Galloway. Part of the entertainment was telling them to look out for wild haggis, and of course the explanation that they live on hills and have evolved to have shorter legs on the left hand side because they only ever run anticlockwise round the hill. This makes hunting them easy, all you have to do is put up a fence to make them turn round and run clockwise, whereupon they tumble down the hill and can simply be netted at the bottom.
They loved the story of course, but last week Cubester had some fun with one of the girls at college. An outspoken vegetarian she occasionally locks horns with Cubester due to his passion for pest control and shooting. He mentioned that he had managed to get a permit to shoot Haggis in Perthshire, at which she became a bit cynical but Google images came to the rescue with photographic evidence of a wild haggis. He knows how to play his opponents, and assures me that she is more interested in "sticking it to the man" rather than actually seeking facts in her beliefs and values, so realised he was onto a winner. He therefore explained that although wild haggis are endangered, hence why a lot of the supermarket ones are actually lamb or mutton, there is a need to cull wild haggis to keep the population healthy. In order to make sure they cull them ethically they now use fences with gaps in them to turn the haggis, and start at the top of the hill. The younger, more agile haggis can escape through the gaps, but the older slower haggis cannot. Although it is permissible to use a rifle, it is considered more sporting to use a shotgun rather than putting the animals through the stress of being netted.
She was forced to agree this was a more ethical source of meat than farmed haggis or mutton substitute.
They loved the story of course, but last week Cubester had some fun with one of the girls at college. An outspoken vegetarian she occasionally locks horns with Cubester due to his passion for pest control and shooting. He mentioned that he had managed to get a permit to shoot Haggis in Perthshire, at which she became a bit cynical but Google images came to the rescue with photographic evidence of a wild haggis. He knows how to play his opponents, and assures me that she is more interested in "sticking it to the man" rather than actually seeking facts in her beliefs and values, so realised he was onto a winner. He therefore explained that although wild haggis are endangered, hence why a lot of the supermarket ones are actually lamb or mutton, there is a need to cull wild haggis to keep the population healthy. In order to make sure they cull them ethically they now use fences with gaps in them to turn the haggis, and start at the top of the hill. The younger, more agile haggis can escape through the gaps, but the older slower haggis cannot. Although it is permissible to use a rifle, it is considered more sporting to use a shotgun rather than putting the animals through the stress of being netted.
She was forced to agree this was a more ethical source of meat than farmed haggis or mutton substitute.
FrankCrank
Old layabout
....sounds offal to me......
machew
Veteran
I remember when Will Smith was in Birmingham with the premier of MIB 2, Jenny Wikes had an interview with him and asked the Radio WM listeners for a question to ask him and the most popular was "Have you ever tasted a faggot". Will Smith walked when asked that questionI love haggis and faggots*. I tend to buy haggis when they're going cheap post Burns night and freeze them**.
*oh do behave, children....
**makes note to self to check in Waitrose tonight.
