Has anybody had haggis this week ?

[TheTecknician]

Or at any other time ? Admittedly it's a delicacy I've never tried, whether traditional or vegetarian but I'm interested to know if haggis has much reach into Mumsnetville.

I don't remember Burns Night (or Week) being an event in the hospitality calendar until the last decade or so. Then again, I'm in Yorkshire so I expect it's different in Scotland. It's a way for the trade to start making some post-Christmas brass in the traditionally lean month of January.

Apart from the vegetarian option, is there only one true recipe for haggis or are there variations according to region, chef, clan, family and so on ?

We had a lovely veg haggis yesterday, with swede and potato mash and cabbage and whisky cream sauce. Bloody lovely.

Then we watched the excellent Two Doors Down Burns Night episode.

Yes. With whisky sauce (DH makes great whisky sauce!). Plus a dram of whisky too.

The dogs got leftover haggis for breakfast!

Love a bit o’ huggis.

Yep! Veggie one yesterday.
Delicious!!

I can't think of much worse than haggis

I'm Scottish

I live in Scotland, and we eat haggis year round, not just for Burn's night. Not weekly, but we all love it. We have chicken Balmoral, traditionally with mash and swede, in a carbonara. My favourite way of using up leftovers is haggis pakora. I sometimes buy a haggis I know is too big on purpose so we have the pakora with a prawn curry.

@TheTecknician black pudding very popular here too and Simon Howie sell sausages and bacon etc all year round and macsweens sell haggis all year round, used to be a successful butchers shop in Edinburgh when I was little ( not sure if that so still exists).

We do a Sunday brunch sometimes. So full English. Sausage, bacon, egg, baked beans and haggis. It's yummy.

Apart from the vegetarian option, is there a single traditional recipe for haggis, or are there variations according to region, chef, family, clan and so on ?

DISREGARD. I've already posted this post!

Who remembers baked potato and haggis in the St Enoch centre?

I had vegan haggis last night, sign of the times.

No @MorrisZapp?

It was bloody lush! Back in ye old fashioned food court days.

Then of course I gentrified and took up veggie haggis baked potato on Cockburn Street in Edinburgh 👌

Yes we had haggis last night, English but in Cumbria so not too far from haggis's homeland.

My daughter had veggie haggis with oven chips, a green salad and some sliced orange peppers. She turned down the bashed neeps and tatties.

Not Scottish but I have Scottish in-laws, and I adore haggis. Haven’t had any yet this year but I thought it would be nice to have this weekend in lieu of Burns night (with mash and garlic broccoli), and now I’m struggling to find a haggis in a (Welsh) supermarket! Tell me they’re still selling them?!

Eat it all year round.

Yes we had it yesterday and have it fairly regularly. We’re all very English in the south of England for what it’s worth! Love haggis.

My Tesco in Surrey sells it all year round.

Had me haggis, neeps and chappit tatties yesterday. Braw!

I love haggis especially in a cooked breakfast!
Vegetarian haggis - bought it once in error and it's DELICIOUS

For further balance, I'm also Scottish and have never eaten it. When at Burns' nights , I always just ate the neeps and tatties. I've eaten around it inside balmoral chicken served at weddings too. Im not vegetarian, but it's not for me.

DH had haggis, and I had McSweens Vegetarian haggis for dinner last night.
DH is Scottish. I am not. We live in England.

Yep we had our belated burns supper tonight. Tomorrow we’ll do what we usually do and have the leftovers on pizza.

I generally prefer white pudding (chip shop choice) or black pudding (breakfast food choice) to haggis at other times, but a bit of balmoral chicken is an always a delight.

We went to a Burns Night with a local Anglo-Scottish group. Lovely evening and DS2 was the drummer for the reeling afterwards.