[Sca-cooks] Haggis: [Fwd: News of the Weird]

[johnna holloway]

 Just had to ask:

What color are the haggises ? (plural of haggis..hagges?)
anyway what color are the ones that are thrown at Highland
Scots gatherings where the men toss the cabers or telephone
poles and the wives get to throw the Haggis???
If they are meant to be thrown are they gray? I understood that
most of those were usually left frozen to make cleanup easier.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

"Philip W. Troy & Susan Troy" wrote:
>
> Hullo. the list!(SNIPPED HEAVILY)
>
> While I don't
> consider myself a real authority on the subject, I will state that none
> of the dozens of haggises I have encountered myself have been gray, and
> I would pit my experience against the non-experience of the
> urban-legend-spreading journalists any day, canned-haggis aberrations notwithstanding.
> > Have you ever seen a haggis? Being made, in part, from lungs, they are a
> > characteristically dark russet brown. It makes as much sense to claim
> > that haggis is grey as to claim that black puddings are grey. I confess,
> > though, that there are a fair number of industrial pseudo-haggisses (not
> > haggi, huh?) produced and sold in Scotland, such as tinned haggis (can
> > microwavable haggis be far behind?), and perhaps such products are a
> > little less highly colored than one would want.