Haggis
Anyone else having haggis today / tonight? Its Burns night in Scotland, and seeing as I am only really a few miles frm their (and to celebtrate Haggis actually being English) I have had some.
Had it with mashed potatoe and turnip (although the turnip is actually a swede, but in my part of the world its called turnip and in america its called rutebega).
Haggis is sheeps heart, lungs and liver minced with pin barley or oatmeal, suet, onions corriander seed, mace and nutmeg and stock all stuffed in a sheeps stomache.
Apparently, because of the lungs, you cannot have real haggis in america. I have also heard all american pork is skinned. WTF?
Had it with mashed potatoe and turnip (although the turnip is actually a swede, but in my part of the world its called turnip and in america its called rutebega).
Haggis is sheeps heart, lungs and liver minced with pin barley or oatmeal, suet, onions corriander seed, mace and nutmeg and stock all stuffed in a sheeps stomache.
Apparently, because of the lungs, you cannot have real haggis in america. I have also heard all american pork is skinned. WTF?
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Who read the poetry?
It stems from our ban on sheep-lungs in food.
No one, Burns night just reminds me how much I like haggis.
Yeah, that was in the OP. Why are sheep lungs banned in food?
Who knows.
It doesn't have to make sense, lol, this is the United States we're talking about.
From http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/Greger122403.cfm
The lung thing in food goes back to the 1970's - way before the big scares over BSE, although haggis was banned from being imported in 1989. Mad cow disease crossing from cows to humans is mostly shit anyway IMH - it has an incubation period of 3-7 years and it is very unlikly any infected animals have been in the food chain in the UK for near 15 years.
Crumbled the haggis and mixed it at a ratio of 2/3 haggis to 1/3 minced beef and mixed it together by crushing it in my hands. Gave it a good grilling - I normally have my burgers quite rare, but mixing cooked offal and fresh meat, I wanted it really cooked through.
Had it in buns with red onion, mayo, ketchup, tomatoe, cucumber and lettuce. I also cooked some slices of streaky bacon and placed them on top of the burgers and put a slice of maaasdam (a dutch cheese) on top and back in the grill for a few minutes.
I will definately be having that again.