Haggis, of course, live on Scottish mountains and spend their whole lives running round the mountain the same way. Consequently the legs on one side are shorter than those on the other. This makes them easy to catch during the haggis hunting season (31st November - 1st December) as all you have to do is chase them the other way round. They fall over and roll down the hill to a net held open at the bottom on red deer antlers stuck in the ground.

I do quite like them boiled (and try not to think about the contents, a bit like anything containing spinach) but will have to try baking one.

Neeps, incidentally, are not what I (a nesh southerner) think of as turnips (the white tennis-ball sized roots with purple bits at the top) but swedes (aka Swedish turnips - the much bigger orange ones). I shall now duck while a Scot shoots me down in flames. ('scuse the mixed metaphor!)

Steve