Artara & Haggis

[tim atherton]

I see Andy and Artara are giving away a free can of Haggis with their latest Goerz over on the auction site.

Must be for Burns Night or some other strange pagan ritual... :-)

[Kirk Gittings]

Is that Haggis trademarked? I wouldn't dare mention it if I were them. The trademark police are very protective of their Haggis.

[tim atherton]

He does say he smuggled it into the US, so it must be grey market Haggis (isn't all Haggis grey..?)

Doesn't HP hold the trademark for Haggis in the US? No - maybe I'm wrong - HP is that brown sauce stuff - regular or fruity....

[Kirk Gittings]

Grey market Haggis!! The criminal element in this country has no scruples! It is going to ruin the legitimate dealers in this country!

[CP Goerz]

With great regret I have had many an American 'Haggis' and this is one area in which the US is'nt any way #1. You have to go to the source to find the best stuff, namely a small butcher shop off the main street in Selkirk, though I must Say Colin Peat in Haddington has a very fine example. I usually eschew the canned haggis in favour of the fresh but smuggling in fresh haggis is a bit more risky of late. The last three I brought in froze and when I picked my suitcase up at the carousel there were three cannonball shaped frost patches on the outside. Sadly I have been FORCED into criminal behaviour!! ;-)

CP Goerz

[Ralph Barker]

Andy - you should try donning a white lab coat and a stethoscope, so you could try to carry your fresh haggis on board in an ice chest with those nifty bio-medical labels. ;-)

[mark blackman]

*Canned* haggis? It's supposed to be a sheep's stomach, not a metal tin!

[Struan Gray]

I once took a real Scottish Haggis with me on a trip to USA. No problems at all until I got home and the little beggar had to spend his obligatory six months in quaranteen. Despite getting him a place at one of the best boarding kennels he pined piteously, losing over a third of his show weight, and large clumps of his fur fell out. By the end the poor dear looked like that rat-thing Paris Hilton carries around in her handbag. Never again.

[Paul Butzi]

It's senseless to talk about American haggis. Why would anyone want such a thing?

If you're in Scotland, by all means, have haggis.

If you're in the US, have some scrapple. Don't know about scrapple? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Seriously, the first time some told me what haggis was, my response was "Oh, you mean **scrapple**." I know it's not exactly the same, but the sentiment surely is.

Go with the local variety, is what I say. Alas, out here in the Specific Northwet, no one knows what the heck I'm talking about if I ask for scrapple. Or haggis, for that matter.

[Jim Rice]

Chittlins?