I'm afraid Haggis (as a foodstuff) is unknown in my region. At least I've never seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted it.

I have been told by some who claimed "celtic" connections that cooking haggis was a good thing - - - as it removed from availability those "membranous parts" of various creatures that might otherwise be available for the making of ....... bags for pipes.

I can't recall any of those who claimed knowledge of the product in my presence ever commenting on the action of eating it. Perhaps they didn't know that that is it's intended use. It seems that quite a lot of "celtic lore" that circulates here is based on less than perfect knowledge.

Having visited Japan briefly on business, where I learned that the "courtesy" expressed by Japanese businessmen in taking "foreign visitors" to exotic dining places was really to see if they could make the visitors sick so that they would have something to tell jokes about for a few months after, by comparison some of the above descriptions of Haggis sound quite tasty.

The Japanese, incidentally, failed quite miserably with my group. Although one of the younger engineers exhibited some mild "greening around the gills" I suspect it was more due to the "personal attendant" that he - being the only bachelor in the group - was offered. She was not all that pretty, and I'm sure he had no idea what use he was expected to make of her services.

They had no offerings even remotely comparable to our own "Possum on a Plank," or other delicacies I would have offered should they have reciprocated the visit.

Without a good "Tex-Mex" or "Thai" recipe for haggis, I'm afraid it has little chance of penetrating the local purveyers of fine foods in my locale; but I shall keep an eye out for some.

John