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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Richard Mellish Date: 02 Apr 24 - 05:27 PM Many years ago one of my fellow post-grads, who was a Kurd, declared that they have a similar dish in Kurdistan, but I think he said they use more salt. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST Date: 29 Mar 24 - 11:54 AM "Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 22 Dec 01 - 09:29 AM Regarding the hunting of bagpipers... While studying medieval history in York, chummer of mine was tickled to discover that there is still an old law on the books, that makes it legal to shoot Scots with arrows from the walls of the city..." Not sure if the law that makes it legal to kill any Welshman in the city of Chester at night has ever been repealed either. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST,Rossey Date: 29 Mar 24 - 05:30 AM This novelty was perpetrated on the public during the heights of the Scottish tartan 'heather and hills and haggis', music season, which ran for many decades. You will want to shoot a haggis after, or an accordion player. You will though, be whistling the refrain. Personally, as a Scottish Highlander - I never go near haggis, it is the devil's food. The Happy Haggis - written by Bert Shorthouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEUMEnMp690 |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MudGuard Date: 28 Mar 24 - 04:27 PM as far as I know biological and chemical weapons are outlawed. Thus haggis is outlawed. Btw, I have eaten haggis twice: 1. once, 2. never again! And I still don't know how I survived the first time ... |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Mar 24 - 04:06 PM Haggis season is barbarously cruel and inhumane. It should be outlawed. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Richard Mellish Date: 28 Mar 24 - 09:00 AM Most if not all of the linkss above are defunct, so here are two that do work at present |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST,Steve Shaw Date: 27 Mar 24 - 09:31 PM I have a haggis in the freezer which I shall consume, alone, on the first weekend in May when Mrs Steve will be away for a couple of nights. I love haggis but she can't stand it. I shall have it with tatties and neeps and there will be single malt... The only condition apropos of haggis is that it must be made by Macsween. Their black pudding is bloody good too (see what I did there?) |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST Date: 27 Mar 24 - 11:19 AM That’s quite a humorous and vivid anecdote! It captures the essence of cultural traditions and the sometimes humorous reluctance to embrace them fully. Haggis, being such a traditional Scottish dish, often evokes strong reactions, especially from those who are not accustomed to it. Discover special offers for GraphiSoft ArchiCAD 25 at ProCADIS.com. The St. Andrew’s Day festival and Highland Games are wonderful occasions that celebrate Scottish heritage, and it’s amusing to hear how they can create lasting memories, even through the simple act of serving a dish like haggis. Thank you for sharing this story! |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: maeve Date: 30 Dec 07 - 05:50 PM Haggis ahead... |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Rapparee Date: 28 Dec 07 - 06:34 PM Actually, the correct term for a group of Idaho Haggii is "bunch" as in, "Look at that bunch of sorry-lookin' haggii over there!" I used the term I did earlier because I was afraid that the more technical term wouldn't be understood. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 28 Dec 07 - 06:27 PM I once knew a chap in Fresno, CA, whose father had emigrated from Scotland around 1904 or so. Seeking to keep faith with his forebears, the son, a newly minted architect, attended a St. Andrew's Day festival and Highland Games with his new bride (circa 1940). She told the story on him in the 1960's. As the haggis was being piped in, my acquaintance looked at his bride and whispered, "I'm havin' none of that - I know what's in it and it stinks!" A very large lady with long henna-red hair leaned across and slapped him on the back, saying, "Ah, c'mon Alistair; it'll put some lead in yer pencil!" |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 07 - 03:34 PM A Haggiography indeed. G |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: maeve Date: 28 Dec 07 - 03:31 PM The Haggis' Zoology for your edification and amusement. maeve |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MMario Date: 28 Dec 07 - 12:57 PM Blame it on Cornell - I do. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 07 - 12:56 PM Gee, a brainy haggis from the Finger lakes :) |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MMario Date: 28 Dec 07 - 12:54 PM Huh? Bombyx is silkworms! Do you mean Bombus? |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: maeve Date: 28 Dec 07 - 12:43 PM It was indeed the bumblebee that confusticated theorists, but a bumble can fly and is not a haggis therefore I conclude 'tis indeed time to hunt the haggis. Will anyone join me in that worthy endeavor? maeve |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Schantieman Date: 28 Dec 07 - 12:34 PM It's only bumble bees (Bombyx spp) that can't fly. Honeybees (Apis mellifera) can - otherwise how would they collect nectar and stuff? Steve |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 07 - 12:00 PM Butterflies cause chaos. G Sorry Ilex |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: maeve Date: 28 Dec 07 - 12:00 PM LOL, MMario. "They" said lots of things. Come hunt the haggis with me and we can further discuss the transcontinental haggis possibilities. I just sighted a golden haggis in Edinburgh! Pax, maeve |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MMario Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:51 AM oh, yeah? well they said that mathematically a bee cannot fly! Reality often precludes theory. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: maeve Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:41 AM Nonsense, Sirrah! Click the link provided upthread to learn of the Golden Haggis, whose genetic code lingers throughout all known haggis populations and effectively precludes any such interbreeding with the otherwise prolific woodchuck clan. With all due respect, maeve, gonehuntinghaggistowinaPrize |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MMario Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:35 AM I'll have you know that cross-comparision of mitochondrial DNA between the Haggis (Nova Scotia variety) and the American Woodchuck show that there may well be some interbreeding occuring between the two populations. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: maeve Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:33 AM "Groundhogs keep creeping in the thread..." Gentlemen: Kindly make your own groundhog thread, eh? Back to our regularly scheduled haggis... |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MMario Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:32 AM A ground hog would hog as much ground as a ground hog CAN hog if a ground hog could hog ground...and actually - they can, and do. Amazing how widespread they can make a burrow system. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Goose Gander Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:26 AM So, then, how much ground could a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:26 AM Woodpussy and Whistlepig G |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MMario Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:10 AM but groundhogs *are* woodchucks. The American woodchuck is the largest member of the marmot family - did you know that? |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Goose Gander Date: 28 Dec 07 - 11:05 AM A 'Whistle-Pig' is, I believe, a groundhog rather than a woodchuck: From the singing of Doc Watson . . . "I dug down but I didn't dig deep I dug down but I didn't dig deep There lay a whistle-pig fast asleep O! Groundhog." |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 07 - 10:57 AM Did they leave with the snakes, by order of St Pat? G |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MartinRyan Date: 28 Dec 07 - 10:44 AM That should, of course, have been: Here in hOireland..." Regards |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MartinRyan Date: 28 Dec 07 - 10:43 AM Here h'Oireland, haggis are (happily) h'extinct. We are now reduced to even more surreal forms of 'unting. Having acquired a Green Party Minister for the Environment, our last remaining deer hunt was only granted a license for its annual foray, on condition that the deer used to set a trail was safely retrapped before the hounds were released.... Regards |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 07 - 09:49 AM Nah that wasn't Haggi, they flock. G |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Rapparee Date: 28 Dec 07 - 09:23 AM Saw a herd of them on the way back home from Salt Lake City yesterday. They looked to be pretty scrawny this year, and the paper this morning said that the Dept of Fish, Game and Haggises had closed the season due to "incipient scrawn." |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: MMario Date: 28 Dec 07 - 09:12 AM I prefer my haggis live trapped and fed for a week on whisky and oatcakes. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: maeve Date: 28 Dec 07 - 09:04 AM 2007-2008 Haggis Hunt, with prizes! Fire away, O Noble Hunters of the Haggis! maeve |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST,old git Date: 27 Dec 07 - 11:18 AM I was always taught as a lad that the Haggis hunting season lasted just 2 days...30 and 31 February. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST,Don Meixner Date: 27 Dec 07 - 09:57 AM Hi Giok, Yes he does. MMario and I are nearly neighbors. He lives about 45 miles west of me. Google up a New York state map and search out Jordan(Me) and Penn Yann(MMario). Pamela from Ithaca is also a Finger Lakes area resident. Don |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST,Mad Jock Date: 27 Dec 07 - 05:50 AM No one has mentioned that it is unwise to hunt haggis until after the young have fledged the nest and that only mature beasts may be taken. Thats those over 5 years old who have lost their wings and can no longer fly and thats why they are easy to catch. |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: John MacKenzie Date: 27 Dec 07 - 05:45 AM Doesn't MMario live around the Finger Lakes? G |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: GUEST,DonMeixner Date: 27 Dec 07 - 12:16 AM The debate over the effects of global warming on the Haggis Spawn is just starting to heat up. Haggis Unlimited has started a study but as they are a large committee nothing is expected to come of the effort. The Haggis of central New York are found mainly in the finger lakes region and as such are forced to migrate in a Northern direction. Had they been found anywhere else they would be Westerly migratory as they are found that way through out the civilized world. But the north south lay of the Lakes makes westerly migration almost impossible. I was sick with pneumonia so I missed the round up this year. A bill was passed in the Legislature to use a colored dye to mark the Haggis and the ranches they came from. The traditional branding of the Haggis has proven to be fatal to about fifty percent of the Haggis. There is a move by the traditionalists to go back to branding with the promise to use irons with shorter names. Don |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Dec 07 - 08:58 PM There are certain important threads that need refreshing from time to time. This thread is certainly one of those. Oh, I came across an interesting Website: The Scottish Haggis Website - for those unwilling to make their own. If I read the description correctly, this haggis is "140 years in the making." Yum. Good stuff. What prompted me to refresh this thread is one of today's quotes from igoogle.com:
- Mike Myers 'nuff said. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Dec 01 - 05:38 AM Aye Bill D, I find the Laphroig much too much like lysol for my taste buds. Glenmorangie is distilled about 20 miles from where I live, but do your self a flavour and go about 15 miles north to Brora, and try my favourite Clynelish. Pronounced cline-leash. There are too many lovely malts to name, but I'm not a fan of Glenmorangie original, and haven't tried the various different cask flavourings that they are doing now, I suspect that they may be just a clever marketing ploy. Slainte....Jock |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Hillheader Date: 23 Dec 01 - 05:11 AM The haggis is an ugly bird And hunting it is quite absurd Two long legs and one more short So on the hills it can cavort. You shoot its short front leg away Then watch it try to upright stay Until it falls and bangs its snout Upon a rock its then knocked out But now your troubles just begin How do you kill the ruddy thing? It looks at you with big sad eyes You feel like Satan in disguise So you decide to let it go You lift it softly from the snow And gently throw it in the air But the bastard craps right in your hair. Because you see you sorry lot The haggis is a bloody Scot And if you hurt us in any way We'll get you back the self same day Big Mick, death threats are not our style But I would not close my eyes a-while Or you'll hear as you nod your head Ten thousand pipers by your bed. So let the poor wee haggis be And if you catch one, set it free But if you catch a Scot I think It's better just to buy him drink!!!
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Bill D Date: 22 Dec 01 - 08:26 PM but NO!... here the history and details of the haggis hunt are detailed! With old engraving of the Haggis hunt! ah, scholarship in the digital age is SO rewarding! now...my wife demands the computer for mundane purposes...*sigh* |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Bill D Date: 22 Dec 01 - 08:12 PM is there no shame? Travesties!!! enough! |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Bill D Date: 22 Dec 01 - 07:58 PM you DO need to scroll to the bottom to read about the capture of the young male haggis and find the link to his picture... |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Bill D Date: 22 Dec 01 - 07:55 PM indeed you may, Mrs. C!....but some of them are pretty fierce , so Skye Terriers may be our best line of defense!...(well, except for Talisker breath, which will ward off the meanest haggis!) |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Cobble Date: 22 Dec 01 - 07:47 PM Bill D.. will join you, if I may, with the Talisker... then we can watch the wee haggis dancing in the heather.. thats if my Skye Terriers don't get wind of 'em. *BG* Mrs C |
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Subject: RE: The Haggis season - when does it start? From: Bill D Date: 22 Dec 01 - 07:45 PM tsk...I put that 'e' in whisky! *running quickly behind myself and kicking me in the butt* but now I am even MORE confused, for this picture of the wild haggis has little resemblance to the others! Perhaps an inbred line? |
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