haggis

     

Haggis is a traitional Scottish dish.

Trivia about haggis

  • American hog maw is similar to this Scottish dish
  • Onions, oatmeal & sheep innards are stuffed into a sheep's stomach to make this Scottish taste treat
  • Burns called this food item, sheep's heart & liver minced with suet, "great chieftain O' the pudding-race!"
  • A New Year's celebration, Hogmanay features this national dish, presented to the accompaniment of bagpipes
  • In 1993 chefs from Glasgow's Hilton & others used 80 ox stomachs to make the largest this on record--668 lbs.! Och aye!
  • This Scottish entree may derive its name from the Old French for "haguier", to chop or hash