Haggis I'll be On My Way

[steepholm]

Last year, in an appropriately thrifty way, I bought two haggis for the price of one, to celebrate my birthday (also Burns's) that year and this. Yesterday I discovered, on taking it out to defrost, that haggises can only be safely frozen for one month. What a waste!

As it happens, I bought my daughter and her boyfriend entry to a Burns Night supper event last night, and would have joined them had I not had to spend the night in Glasgow for a PhD viva. In Glasgow, of course, no haggis was to be had - at least that I could find - so I ended up eating pizza. No lambs or cows died to make my mess, although I may have inconvenienced a goat. The haggis proper will have to wait for Burns Night proper - which this year happens also to be the start of the Chinese New Year. I'm still pondering the appropriate accompaniment to complement the tatties.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Surely frozen is frozen and therefore safe to use?

[steepholm]

That’s what I naively thought, but apparently not!

[sovay]

That’s what I naively thought, but apparently not!

What happens? I mean, you have mammoths coming out of the permafrost, what's the worst that can happen to a haggis in your freezer?

[steepholm]

Some kind of Jeff Goldblum half-haggis half-human hybrid, I imagine. Or possibly you get indigestion John Hurt style...

[calimac]

General guidelines in the US are that frozen meat will keep for somewhere between 6 and 12 months. I don't know if haggis would be different: genuine haggis is not permitted in the US.

I have had haggis, or what claimed to be, in Scotland, and I'd far rather eat it again in the UK than a pizza of any description. Every pizza I've ever tried there - at least 4 or 5 of them - has been utterly vile.

[shewhomust]

I seconf this belief, and ttreat these dates with cheerful contempt. I will probably get my comeuppance at some point.

[tree_and_leaf]

I've had haggis that had been in the freezer for at least three months.

It was fine.

[sovay]

No lambs or cows died to make my mess, although I may have inconvenienced a goat.

If you had a pizza with goat on it, I am envious.

[steepholm]

I only troubled it for its cheese, on this occasion, although that does sound good! (And at Glasgow airport this afternoon, let it be recorded that I did see haggis pizza on sale. Alas, I was still sated with post-viva institutional sandwiches.)

[cmcmck]

From the people who brought you the deep fried mars bar.......... :o)

[tree_and_leaf]

Haggis tacos are great.