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Pets & Working Animals => Dogs => Topic started by: Alistair on November 18, 2012, 03:59:08 pm
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Just been reliably informed by my 3 dogs that haggis is by far the best food in the world
In fact one of them just said that "it's what they would eat in the wild"
They are now hunting in the kitchen, 2 are hunting haggis on the floor, and I just found one on the work top hunting haggis behind the toaster
I have also learnt that border collies are too big to go on the work tops
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Alistair, you paint a good picture. :roflanim:
I suspect the haggis are canny and keep running away from them. ;D
Sally
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I just have never seen them so very very exited by a single food, it's just the best, they all love their food but not like this, they're still in the kitchen, searching
Mind it was nice haggis, really peppery, took me ages to catch it this morning
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Is the plural of haggis, haggises or haggi?
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:roflanim: the haggis will never be safe again, in your house!
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It's Haggi Alistair. How on earth did you catch it? They are very elusive, and those three legs really mean they can tear about the countryside at a high rate of knots. My dogs love Haggis too, they don't usually get lucky though because I do too ;D.
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I caught it using the traditional method doganjo, using a sprout in lieu of the more traditional bait,
(If you've got it to hand, igor von pressenburgers 1694 publication, der scotlanders haggi dans der Morgan, page 1654, diagram 3)
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Neeps and tatties are better :excited: :excited: :excited:
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Sensible dogs ;D I love haggis.
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could someone reccomend a proper supplier who would post a (preferably dead) one down here for me? cos ive never tried it and have always wanted too!
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I adore Haggis.......and after Burns night loads of reduced ones as I belive they are bred for that particular night, I love the veggie version and believe they are made from Haggis fed only on veg ;)
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Try your local butcher DitW, they might have friends up here who can tell them how to get them. Might even be able to rear them on your smallholding - now there's a money maker :excited: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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i thought they only lived in the highlands? and were untameable? im not sure id cope with raisng them down here, the air might be too salty.
i can get haggis from the supermarket, but id prefer the real thing.
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Mcmessiers almanac of 1892 refers to 'highland haggis farming, grasses and seeds', page 432 is interesting, you could try that, salt does indeed causes immaciation in the kits (according to dr j.b. mcready, haggis and their environs, 1899' p 125' table 4, I prefer the wild ones however, and the hand spun blue wool/ sweet corn method is one of y favourites
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see, i knew i was right :-J
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Try McSweens - they do on-line sales
http://www.macsween.co.uk/where-to-buy-haggis/ (http://www.macsween.co.uk/where-to-buy-haggis/)
Very, very good haggis :thumbsup:
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And they also sell them in tesco
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but they're definitely good even if Tesco DOES sell them!
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thanks for the link, following such esteemed members reccomendations they are the ones i shall try. i will report back!
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could someone reccomend a proper supplier who would post a (preferably dead) one down here for me? cos ive never tried it and have always wanted too!
I will probably get pounced upon for blasphemy but the best way of describing it IMO.....
It's a giant faggot :sofa:
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I don't think I've tasted faggots - what are they like?
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small haggis??? :thumbsup:
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I meant to taste - same ingredients?
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I love faggots and I love haggis :yum:
Any haggis which tastes like faggots is going straight back. :rant:
Any faggots which taste like haggis is a bonus, I think... :thinking:
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if a haggis tastes anything like the cooked ones from that butchers in abergavenny on market day ill be a happ fella!
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Is the plural of haggis, haggises or haggi?
In Scots grammar measured amounts of something don't usually change the noun ending so it would just be 'haggis'.
eg. "Ah ken there's a twa three haggis bidin on the brae ahint ma hoose"
other examples of this grammar would be;
"they cost ten pun a heid"
"the dug jaloused far aboots a hid hid the key fir wir freezer and ait twa haggis, sax hen an a puckle sausage. Ah wis sair pitten aboot and leathered the dug twa mile doon the glen" **
** please note this is a fictional story made up to demonstrate that 'mile' (sco) does not have an s even though there are 2 miles (eng). I don't even have a dog.
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Is the plural of haggis, haggises or haggi?
In Scots grammar measured amounts of something don't usually change the noun ending so it would just be 'haggis'.
eg. "Ah ken there's a twa three haggis bidin on the brae ahint ma hoose"
other examples of this grammar would be;
"they cost ten pun a heid"
"the dug jaloused far aboots a hid hid the key fir wir freezer and ait twa haggis, sax hen an a puckle sausage. Ah wis sair pitten aboot and leathered the dug twa mile doon the glen" **
** please note this is a fictional story made up to demonstrate that 'mile' (sco) does not have an s even though there are 2 miles (eng). I don't even have a dog.
:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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Is the plural of haggis, haggises or haggi?
In Scots grammar measured amounts of something don't usually change the noun ending so it would just be 'haggis'.
eg. "Ah ken there's a twa three haggis bidin on the brae ahint ma hoose"
other examples of this grammar would be;
"they cost ten pun a heid"
"the dug jaloused far aboots a hid hid the key fir wir freezer and ait twa haggis, sax hen an a puckle sausage. Ah wis sair pitten aboot and leathered the dug twa mile doon the glen" **
** please note this is a fictional story made up to demonstrate that 'mile' (sco) does not have an s even though there are 2 miles (eng). I don't even have a dog.
Is your real name Rob Anybody Mac Feegle?
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Actually the real name is Tim Rose which probably doesn't sound very Scottish.
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Is the plural of haggis, haggises or haggi?
In Scots grammar measured amounts of something don't usually change the noun ending so it would just be 'haggis'.
eg. "Ah ken there's a twa three haggis bidin on the brae ahint ma hoose"
other examples of this grammar would be;
"they cost ten pun a heid"
"the dug jaloused far aboots a hid hid the key fir wir freezer and ait twa haggis, sax hen an a puckle sausage. Ah wis sair pitten aboot and leathered the dug twa mile doon the glen" **
** please note this is a fictional story made up to demonstrate that 'mile' (sco) does not have an s even though there are 2 miles (eng). I don't even have a dog.
i have no idea what this means. but its still funny. :roflanim:
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Is the plural of haggis, haggises or haggi?
In Scots grammar measured amounts of something don't usually change the noun ending so it would just be 'haggis'.
eg. "Ah ken there's a twa three haggis bidin on the brae ahint ma hoose"
other examples of this grammar would be;
"they cost ten pun a heid"
"the dug jaloused far aboots a hid hid the key fir wir freezer and ait twa haggis, sax hen an a puckle sausage. Ah wis sair pitten aboot and leathered the dug twa mile doon the glen" **
** please note this is a fictional story made up to demonstrate that 'mile' (sco) does not have an s even though there are 2 miles (eng). I don't even have a dog.
Pure dead brilliant, by the way! :excited:
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Ah ken there's a twa three haggis bidin on the brae ahint ma hoose" = I know there are two or three haggi on the small hill behind my home
"they cost ten pun a heid" = The price was £10 each
"the dug jaloused far aboots a hid hid the key fir wir freezer and ait twa haggis, sax hen an a puckle sausage. Ah wis sair pitten aboot and leathered the dug twa mile doon the glen" **
= the dog worked out where I had hidden the key fro the freezer and ate two haggi, six hens, and a few sausages. I was really angry and smacked him hard for two miles right along the road.
Love it, glad I can still understand my native tongue. :roflanim:
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Ah ken there's a twa three haggis bidin on the brae ahint ma hoose" = I know there are two or three haggi on the small hill behind my home
"they cost ten pun a heid" = The price was £10 each
"the dug jaloused far aboots a hid hid the key fir wir freezer and ait twa haggis, sax hen an a puckle sausage. Ah wis sair pitten aboot and leathered the dug twa mile doon the glen" **
= the dog worked out where I had hidden the key fro the freezer and ate two haggi, six hens, and a few sausages. I was really angry and smacked him hard for two miles right along the road.
Love it, glad I can still understand my native tongue. :roflanim:
Another Feegle!!!!
Doganjo, Oor Wullie, you MUST read the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett!
The Nac Mac Feegle (tiny blue pictsies) speak EXACTLY like that! It took me AGES to work out what they were saying when I read the 1st one :-[ (actually one of the characters is called Daft Wullie...)
Wee Free Men is the 1st one followed by, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith and I Shall Wear Midnight.
My copies ALL have tear stains in them where I have cried laughing!
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I've read one of them, can't remember which one, must look for the others - once my kindle remembers how to wifi with my router again! Stupid thing! :rant: