Giant whole corn?

[satx78247]

TRUE. I do NOT eat haggis.

Fwiw, my DNA says that I'm 24% Scot.

yours, satx

 

[Black Hand]

Peeled?... :shocked2:
Rat's...I wanted to try and sprout some. :cursing:

Clyde,
I think what you have there is Hominy... https://www.chowhound.com/post/******-maiz-mote-pelado-advice-724279

 

[Black Hand]

Ach lad,(in my best Scottish accent) no haggis?! Are ye daft laddie?
I don’t know if you ever tried one but it does taste better then it sounds. Looking forward to one on Bobbie Burns birthday.

It is the idea of Haggis that seems to get people.

The modern Haggis is more like a meatloaf (ground meat, liver, onions, oatmeal and spices, mixed and baked in an oven) than the original Haggis (ground sheep liver, lungs & sometimes kidneys & heart, onions, oatmeal and spices, mixed and boiled in a sheep's stomach for 4-5 hours). It was a way for poor people to use the discarded bits (pluck) for a meal.

I've had the modern and would gladly eat the traditional (especially with a fine Scotch). I have a recipe somewhere for Venison Haggis, which I was told was better than the original made from sheep parts.

Traditional Haggis: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/haggis-recipe-1911083

Modern Haggis: https://www.chowhound.com/recipes/haggis-ingredients-14255

 

[tenngun]

I’ve made the original style myself, well it came form Karalee Turneys recipe, and it taste mostly of a sausage. Boiling in a stomach is just cause it’s handy. Pudding was always cooked in a stomach or paunch, cloth pudding bags just came to be used as people were making puddings faster then butchering. I would bet lots of haggis was cooked in cloth bags.
By the by what’s plural of haggis? Haggi?haggiseses?
A Roman walks in to a bar and ask for a martinis.The bartender say you mean a martini. The Roman says no, if I wanted two I would ask for two.

 

[omarick1948]

Clyde, What you bought was a bag of dried hominy my friend. My wife is a 100% certified American born Mexican and has used it in making great soups and MENUDO! She is 71 come this December 1st and was taught how to make it from her mother and grandmother. I like honey comb tripe and the Mexican's love a big bowl of Menudo after a big night drinking and a believed hangover remedy.

It's always comical about someone refusing to try or like some food, but will eat things like eggs, sausages in natural casings, beef or deer tongue, liver and onions, Mountain oysters etc. All fine eating in my 2 cent opinion.
Rick

 

[coloradoclyde]

Thanks....Guess I'll try it in soup....But I swear, If I hear tripe or Menudo one more time I'm going to :barf: .... :haha:

 

[satx78247]

Me TOO.

yours, satx

 

[nhmoose]

You have never been to an Orangeman's dinner in the Nor East when my FIL was grand whatever were the old traditional Haggis. Yuk is the best I can give it.

 

[tenngun]

That’s a trueism. I can’t say I see much difference in eating body part a, and body part b. Now I don’t care for the taste of liver or kidney but chopped and thrown in to a stew pot they make a rich broth. I eat pigs feet and head cheese with equal gusto.
Drop a deer I will make an SOB stew that night. Offal and awful are too different things.

 

[coloradoclyde]

"quinto quarto" The fifth quarter of the animal...

 

[Black Hand]

You have never been to an Orangeman's dinner in the Nor East when my FIL was grand whatever were the old traditional Haggis. Yuk is the best I can give it.

What can I say, I'm an adventurous eater.
Haggis hardly cracks the top 10 of interesting things I've eaten (based upon the American palate). I'll take a Haggis any day over one of those pasty, pink meat-tubes that people seem to enjoy so much - they're nasty.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

By the by what’s plural of haggis

The plural is haggis. Just as you can have one sheep or many sheep.


LD

 

[satx78247]

EXACTLY. = When I was an advisor OCONUS, we were all told to eat what we were served by the local nationals & smile, lest we embarrass the US Army & our nation.

My rule in a developing nation is: IF it tastes good, don't ask what it is.

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

Don’t tell Buffy St Marie, as she sung about ”˜sheeps’ :wink:
I was in south and west pacific in navy and San diago while in states. Was down to TJ and Ensenada a lot. Some of the best food I had in Philippine and Mexico was off street vendors. Never asked what it was.
I recall the man who built the Brendan, small Irish leather ship and sailed to America in it, he spoke of eating sea birds often. His name started with an S and sounds different the it looks but I can’t recall it now. Anyway his crew seem to have liked birds we often don’t think of as dinner :idunno:
”˜All that’s sold in a shambles is good to eat’.

 

[Wes/Tex]

My rule in a developing nation is: IF it tastes good, don't ask what it is.

yours, satx

Yep...never ask. Someone's just liable to tell you, and no one wants that! :rotf:

Like the old joke about the two immigrant who just got off the boat and asked what was typical traditional American food. Hotdogs they were told so went to the nearest vendor and ordered. The first looked into the bun and asked the other, "What part of the dog did you get?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI

 

[satx78247]

ROTFLMRAO!!

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

:rotf:

 

[satx78247]

I've never asked what I was eating again after I asked what the nice "toasted croutons", that decorated the "chef's salad" that I enjoyed eating in an African country were.

yours, satx

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Je weniger die Leute darüber wissen, wie Würste und Gesetze gemacht werden, desto besser schlafen sie nachts.

"The less the people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep in the night." Attributed to Otto Von Bismarck, but origin of that particular version is unknown...though it's correct about not knowing what's in the sausage that you're eating.
:haha:
LD

 

[satx78247]

TRUE. - After reading THE JUNGLE by Upton Sinclair, POTUS Theodore Roosevelt said about the same.

yours, satx