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DebbieD Posts: 3,540

I normally go haggis hunting, but had practically forgotten this season til one of my Scottish friends reminded me.   bear_happy   The wee beasties seem to be highly elusive for me this year, but I finally bagged one late last night....

http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/camera.cfm?camera=1   Join in the fun  bear_flower   I love to see the different views of Scotland, and its great fun when you've spotted a haggis....believe me, you can't miss 'em  bear_laugh

Tracy ThimbleBeary Originals
Iowa
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This is cool! bear_thumb I found three of them.....including a golden one! bear_grin It's fun to see the webcam pictures in places such as these.......

DebbieD Posts: 3,540

Wow Tracy!   That's great  bear_shocked   

I know many are concerned for the wee beasties http://www.flyinghaggis.co.uk/haggis/save.htm but this version of 'hunting' does them no harm at all  bear_happy

SunnieOne Sunnie Bears
Ridgecrest, CA
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what is a haggis?

Delartful Bears Delartful Bears
Australia
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I thought it was a bird - that link has me confuzzled (confused)

Danni

SueAnn Past Time Bears
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SunnieOne wrote:

what is a haggis?

Trust me . . . you really don't want to know!!!!  bear_tongue  bear_tongue  bear_tongue  bear_tongue  bear_tongue  bear_tongue

DebbieD Posts: 3,540

What is a haggis??  masthead.gif  The wee fellow in the header there is a haggis!  If you look through the various cameras, you just might see one!  Look at the link I gave above in my first post.

....and some people thought it was sheep's stomach stuffed with oats and barley  bear_laugh

toadbriar ToadBriar
western massachusetts
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I don't wanna hunt for haggis for fear of finding some  bear_ermm

Dunno why someone would cook up a sheep's stomach to eat, when there are much more
delicious parts of sheepses to eat, like the wool or the hooves..... bear_wacko

DebbieD Posts: 3,540

I know, I have a friend from Iceland who was telling me a sheep's head was considered the delicacy...and I'm thinking "what's happened to the rest of it??  You know, the edible parts??"  :crackup:  :crackup:  :crackup:

Densteds Densteds
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I tried some when I was in Scotland on holidays, just tasted like savoury mince...

Stellajella Wien
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I didn´t know that something like a haggis hunt existed!
Remembering the old days when the left overs from animals were delicassees to most of the people in a poor country that was exploited, is quite a good idea. And arranging it with Robert Burn´s Ode to a haggis makes a real cool even....but still...I cannot eat it and I cannot even smell it... :redface:
But I always loved the Burn´s nights that I had the honor to be invited to.
I guess haggis is an attitude to life.

Enjoy your haggis everyone!
Gaby bear_flower

Stellajella Wien
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Sue Ann, LOL, I had to giggle, cause I had the same words in mind, when reading Sonya´s post  :crackup:
But then again: do we wanna know what´s in a sausage? Or in a hamburger? Or in....errrrrrm....cheeses! We better never find out!

Gaby bear_flower

DebbieD Posts: 3,540

....oh yes, I'd forgotten about 'headcheese'!   bear_whistle   Nah, I'll stick to my 'sausages' and never mind what's in them  bear_rolleyes

Don't forget ...haggis hunting ends on Burn's Night...which is this Friday I believe?  So just a few more days of the season left  bear_smile  bear_flower

nettie scotland
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Vegetarian haggis is really nice.Its what I will be having on friday with mashed tumshee (I think you call them swede).
Its got all the taste of haggis minus the animal parts.
I have been veggie for almost forty years now and still find it weird the things people put in their mouths .

Stellajella Wien
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nettie, honestly, I deffinitely CANNOT imagine, that anything tastes like haggis....specially if it is not meat bear_grin
...and I wonder, how veggy haggis is made- must be sort of vegetarian müesli, but in what do you boil it??? Vegetarian sheep stomach? :crackup:

Gaby bear_flower - no burn´s night here- no haggis

New Avenue Crew New Avenue Crew by Debora Hoffmann
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Funny how "haggis" kind of rhymes with "gag us"... bear_whistle  bear_laugh Sorry, everyone. I have just heard that it doesn't taste very good, and I wouldn't want anything to do with the sheep's stomach or other parts. bear_ermm  Diane's version would be the only one I would venture to try! (And Diane, yours is probably quite tasty.) I'll steer clear of all those other animal parts you've all mentioned, too! Now, chocolate, on the other hand... bear_wub

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