The Scottish Haggis Hunt is On

[MaryH]

Last year I won a really nice Scottish Calendar. Just go out to Haggishunt.com.

They have some really nice prizes but I think you have to live in UK to get them.

I'm going for a t-shirt this year.

[Dr J]

1. You can take our calendars....

but you'll never take our HAGGISES!

:hippie:

[clydefrand]

2. Who would want them? I have oatmeal every morning

as it is. Without the stomach or whatever it's in.

[MaryH]

5. These are little furry animals - not haggis the "food"

[pk_du]

3. Not just UK!

http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/

[MaryH]

6. We can play for some things but I don't think they can send

the booze prizes out of the country - there is some kind of law or something.

And I suppose someone could win the hotel stay - but you would have to get there by yourself.

I play because its fun. I like to check in on the places on the webcams just to see them. I especially like the shots of Oban.

[pk_du]

4. Self Delete

[FuzzySlippers]

7. Oh, I love the Haggis Hunt!

I didn't win anything last year, but I was thrilled just to get an email from Farquar Farquarson.

[McKenzie]

8. superb haggis is made half a mile from my house

local butcher makes 'em and they are lovely.

[FuzzySlippers]

9. I think I'm gonna be........

:puke:

[Ima]

15. Me too.

:puke:

[Padraig18]

10. Haggis, a dish invented by a demented, starving Scot...

...who told himself, "The river will unfreeze next week, and I'llbe able to eat fish again."

:P

[McKenzie]

12. bet some of you lot are descended from...

the reprobrates we booted out of the country a couple of centuries ago...teehee.

love and hugs

[Padraig18]

13. Hehehe...

Most likely, with some Norsemen and Spanish sailors thrown in, for good measure.

;)

[sans qualia]

11. Is the plural of haggis hagges?

[McKenzie]

14. haggii...is the correct term...sniff... ;--) n/t

[SmokingJacket]

16. It's not haggis without the maggots...

according to my grandfather.

I'm only a little Scottish, but I'm so cheap I'm sewing a new zipper into my kid's coat instead of buying him a whole new coat.

And I've never -- really, never -- bought myself a new coat.

I find coats and keep them until they fall apart.

Damn, I love plaid, too.

[vixengrl]

17. Nothing wrong with haggis--unless it's blue (not our kind of blue...)

The Legend of the Blue Haggis



Once upon a time there was a haggis in the back of my refrigerator. I don't know how it got there--it may have been a wedding present (my family is a mite eccentric) or possibly, a Christmas present, a la fruitcake, which is another misunderstood food. And there it sat, a lonely blue haggis (I don't think it was blue when I got it BTW), surrounded by beer and cold pizza and 2% milk--feeling sorry for itself because it didn't feel special. Nobody paid attention to the blue haggis. It was like the blue haggis didn't exist.


But then, one day, it came time for me and the hubbatollah to move to another apartment, and we had to clean out the fridge. We cleaned out the chocolate syrup that would no longer pour. We threw away the Chinese food that we couldn't identify because it no longer smelled like anything we usually ordered. We threw away the baking soda--well, actually, it committed suicide, feeling that it had failed at keeping things nice in there, somehow.


And then we saw it, the blue haggis. We held it up to bask in the harsh light of the fridge.

"Wow," the hubbatollah said--"that's special." (He meant it sarcastically)


But haggis are not book-larned. And it didn't know from sarcasm, or that meat should not be blue. Hubby handed the blue haggis to me, I loaded it in the lead-lined titanium lacrosse stick, and I hurled it into the yard of our neighbors, who I never liked and didn't expect to see again--


And as it flew, if haggis could smile, maybe the blue haggis grinned a little--for there, in the yard, were some nice doggies to play with.