Haggis
 

Does anyone know anywhere in the U.S. you can buy canned Haggis, or a web sight that you can order it from Scotland?
We brought some home with us last year from Scotland and my husband really likes it. (I know it's not as good as the real thing.)
Thanks for your help.
Bri

Bri, what part of the U.S. do you live in? There are British import stores in my area but it's a big country! You can also order haggis from www.expatshopping.com. If you'd like the addresses of some British import stores in the Los Angeles area, email me at [email protected] & I'll fill you in.

You can order online from
www.weescots.com

I ordered Oatcakes ,shortbread etc made in Scotland and the order was recv. in 5 days shipped from Charlotte, N.C.

They have a good selection os Scott products.

Bri, this web site has a list of British food stores in the US.

http://www.british-expats.com/bfood.shtml

You can't import real haggis because the meat can't be imported. The stuff on the expatshopping site is vegetarian, but it's made by the best haggis maker, Macsween, so it's probably very good. The weescots site has "haggis" made from beef. I think that if you eat this, you will be denied entry to Scotland forever!

However, if you find a store on the list near you, you may find that they have real haggis made locally.

Barbara
Good point. Never thought about the meat and import restrictions. Never had veggie hagis!!!

MacSweens vegetarian haggis is first class

Thanks to everyone for their help.
Daisy54, I will be sending you a email. We live in the Midwest, but will be in L.A. in December.
We will prbably have to go back to Scotland. My husand likes haggis and a whiskey he found over there(Murray's Scottish Highland Liqueur). I have tried to get some of the liqueur sent here, but it is 150.GBP to have a bottle sent to the U.S. Yes, that is the right price,I even called them.
But maybe the haggis is obtainable.

Thanks, Bri

For more information on Haggis, I suggest this helpful article...

http://www.electricscotland.com/haggis/haggis1.html

:) :) :)

I'd be interested if you find a good haggis in the U.S. I brought some canned haggis home (bought in the grocery section of Selfridge's) and found that it was enhanced with a lot of filler. Filler as in rice or potato or something. Still, it wasn't too bad to eat for breakfast! Just don't expect the "wow" you get from regular haggis!

Regular haggis has filler too- oatmeal. Really good haggis (Macsween's) doesn't have too much, though.

This cracks me up, too, lol....especially the last line.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3240190.stm

Happy Haggis Day to Sheila.
(One more turkey saved from death's row.)

On a more serious note, this Oregon business says it makes traditional, tried-and-true Scottish haggis:

http://www.oatmealsavage.com/aboutus.ivnu

http://www.oatmealsavage.com/Haggis.ivnu

Here's another haggis link. This should be easy for Fodorites!

http://www.haggishunt.com/

When I hunt haggis (with my pack of specially trained wombles - small but viscious critters) I like to take a hipflask of scotch. My favourite is Glen Hoddle.

There was an article about haggis hunting in yesterday's Times.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFr...910315,00.html

And David, you should know better than promote an English Glen.

David, my favourite is Glen Campbell - but it does tend to be rather soupy. Also, I believe that these wombles are to be found in Milton Keynes as well now.

Wombles in Milton Keynes, too? I seem to recall Milton Berle having once had an attack of the wombles.

Yup, in Milton Keynes. Mind you, you have to go to a hockey pitch to find them (and they're such a crazy gang). They used to eat sheep's brains but that's another story now being heard in Cardiff.