So, I gotta start out the New Year right and even though we’ve already wandered into February, I thought I’d honor my Scottish ascenters by eating: a can of Haggis!
My wife Victoria gets full credit for putting this concoction into my possession. Now I had hear that actual Haggis, made from sheep’s intestines, was not legal in this country, so I was ready to experience a close-but-not-quite-there replica of actual Haggis, since I doubt highly that my wife is a Haggis-smuggler.
So, I opened the can…..
Can of Haggis with the lid off
Scooped it into a bowl….
Seriously, I'm going to do this!
Popped it into a microwave for 4 minutes….
Doesn't look much different
I went in and sat down in front of the TV and ate this while watching “Shutter Island”. I wished I was on the island.
OK, TOO salty. It tasted like a combination of a dried out casserole and Spam. I know there were life-shortening ingredients in there, but I ate it none the less. Well, most of it.
This is as far as I made it
After a while, all I could taste is the salt. At one point, Lot’s wife walked up to me and said, “Are we related?” OK, too Biblical.
Bottom line: I understand that, in tough times, when this is all you can get, you eat it. I’m not there. I can say I did it, but with a bad Scottish accent.
Tim Hunter
Tim, this is Alice’s friend, Molly. I like your blog and read it fairly regularly. Sad and shocking about Shawn.
By the way Haggis kind of sucks. My husband and I went to Scotland — he always wants to try the real local chow and he like it enough to buy a can and they confiscated it at the airpiort. It was a big hassle. Its a rather dried-out hash-y thing. Maybe if you put it in a wrap or taco shell or iceburg lettuce it would work.
By: Molly Garrison on February 14, 2011
at 10:44 pm