More macho Monday, November 20, 2017  By  kevinharrell (Read 550 times)

I've had chitlins but I won't have haggis, so I guess haggis is more macho but I've also had cows tongue and calves brains and didn't care for them much either.

Haggis smells better than chitterlings, but that aint sayin much.

If you don't like mushy meals, try these Haggis flavored chips.

Uh,wasn't it Malcom that passed? Haggis or no.

Angus just died I think yesterday

Eating Haggis properly is a formal occasion. I don't think chitterlings ever receive a parade, or have poetry read over them.

Parade of the Haggis
The evening's highest bit of pomp. The chef, carrying in the haggis, follows the piper - playing Brose & Butter,or some other appropriate tune - in a more or less dignified procession through the hall (or house, or one bedroom flat). The chef lays the haggis, on it's groaning trencher, before the chairman at the high table.

Address to a Haggis
A previously designated reciter reads this poem over the haggis. A guid whisky gill is offered to the piper, chef and reciter, and with alacrity, the haggis is sliced open with the finely honed edge of a ceremonial dirk (though any old knife will do).

The meal is then served with all its composite courses and copious helpings of guid ale and whisky. (I've seen some flavor their haggis with a dram of whisky, but I prefer both my pudden and whisky neat).

More at the link.
www.robertburns.org/suppers/itinerary.shtml