> Kansas City has a Highland Games weekend every year, > and depending on > which vendors come, sometimes you can get haggis and > sometimes you > can get "haggis sausage." There are Scottish > Festivals and Celtic Festivals > like this across the US every year where you can get > decent haggis, or > haggis sausage. Not being able to import it or eat > it in Scotland is no > excuse, at least not for Americans... ;-)
Debbi replied:
I've had something that *purported* to be haggis at a local Scottish festival, but it was made with rice instead of oatmeal, and I think it was lamb instead of mature sheep; in addition it wasn't boiled in a sheep's stomach... It tasted like very bland 'dirty rice,' which is a Cajun dish made of various giblets/assorted undefined animal parts/rice/onions etc.
Well, for sure, not *everything* sold as haggis at these festivals is the good stuff, I'll definitely agree there...
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I couldn't even find *medium* salsa when I worked a couple of near-veggieless months in North Dakota! Standard veggies at people's houses and restaurants in Dickenson: white: potatoes (boiled, mashed & fried), cabbage (pickled or boiled), onions (fried or boiled), navy beans (boiled with salt and maybe some pepper if the cook was adventuresome that day...;} ) and corn (boiled or creamed).
Sounds not unlike British cooking ;-)
Reggie The Spicier The Better Maru
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