# Anyone for Haggis hunting?

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**Created:** [November 28, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-haggis-hunting/215730 "2003-11-28T15:17:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-haggis-hunting/215730/21 "2003-12-06T06:28:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Antiochus \*  
> \*\*For what it’s worth, the online M-W dictionary defines haggis as:
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> “a traditionally Scottish dish that consists of the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep or a calf minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings boiled in the stomach of the animal”
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> Maybe I should have left well enough alone. \*\*

You’ve merely scratched the surface, omitting the ceremonial. If you happen to have a piper handy, the haggis is piped into the dining room, piping hot and steaming. The [Address to the Haggis](http://www.rabbie-burns.com/the_poems/addresstoahaggis.cfm) is read. The server plunges his _sgian dubh_ into the haggis, slitting the stomach poach and letting the innards tumble out. The server serves portions to the assembled multitude, often with oatcakes, and a dollop of Scotch on the haggis.

At least, that’s how we do it in the **Piper** household. One epicure insists that it needs a bit of Dijon mustard to finish it off, but he’s obviously non-traditional. The Scotch and oatcake suffice.

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