# My Day of Haggis \*or\* Walking With Deth At My Side **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253 "2002-07-22T18:42:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/21 "2002-07-23T11:41:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flamsterette\_X \* > \*\*Ah, haggis. I remember trying it just once. My brother went to Scotland last August with the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra. They’re always going on these rather exotic trips; a couple of years ago, they went to Russia to play at some festival. > > \*\* It is very hard to think of Scotland as “exotic” I think this tells me more about Vancouver than I needed to know. Anyway; sweaties (people of a caledonian persuasion) don’t eat haggis as its far too healthy. Square suasage, and deep fried mars bars washed down with tenants extra straight from the tin (or Irn-bru) is more authentic. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/22 "2002-07-23T11:44:06Z")
[sub]big guys…big burly guys…big burly guys named chuck…oh wait…that was big burly guys chucking stuff…big burly sweaty guys chucking stuff…big burly sweaty guys chucking stuff and drinking beer…big burly sweaty guys chucking stuff and drinking beer and eating haggis (ulp!)…big burly sweaty guys…and beer…big burly sweaty guys…and beer…can’t keep mind on anything else…beer…big burly sweaty guys…[/sub] Oh **Rue** , how was the cookie? [sub]big burly sweaty guys…and beer…and big burly sweaty guys[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/23 "2002-07-23T11:49:37Z")
**swampbear** , do I need to turn the firehose on you? Sheesh, you drool worse than I do… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/24 "2002-07-23T11:54:06Z")
Now look what you’ve done, we’re going to have to turn the hose on **swampbear**. And **sb** , I hope that cookie reference wasn’t what I thought it was. Just my evil imagination, I hope. On the positive side maybe this’ll incent you to come up and visit (sweaty) Southwest Ohio sometime. Big burly sweaty guys we got in spades. 'Course they’re all down visiting from Wisconsin or somesuch place. Maybe we can take you to Norwood or Hamiltucky. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/25 "2002-07-23T11:54:49Z")
[sub]big burly sweaty guys…beer…big burly sweaty guys…beer…big burly sweaty guys[/sub] **huh? wha?** you say sumpn’ **FCM**? [sub]big burly sweaty guys…beer…big burly sweaty guys…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/26 "2002-07-23T12:24:12Z")
Hey, **swampbear**. What about… big burly sweaty guys and FREE beer? Betcha blow a gasket now. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/27 "2002-07-23T12:50:11Z")
big burly sweaty guys…and FREE beer…big burly sweaty guys…offering me FREE beer…big burly sweaty guys… \*\*BOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIING!!! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/28 "2002-07-23T13:28:45Z")
_is privately convinced that **Rue** is Dave Barry in disguise_ Man, that was gold. ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/29 "2002-07-23T13:53:54Z")
Hey **Daerlyn** , have you ever seen a pic of **Rue**? Your theory might be more credible than you think. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/30 "2002-07-23T14:02:08Z")
Ya know **Daerlyn** , I have been told I look something like Dave Barry. And Steven King. And Fred Flintstone. And none of these people have ever been seen in the same room as me either. Then again, neither has Batman. Hmmm… And it’s just mean to tease **Swampy** like that. You should all be ashamed of yourself. (But it is funny to see all the hair on his body stand straight up like that.) -Rue. (don’t make me separate you!) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/31 "2002-07-23T14:09:52Z")
I don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade (though what better, given the shitty summer we’re having), but Ireland isn’t in any way part of Britain. Northern Ireland’s part of the UK, but that’s as far as it goes. Unless of course it was a “British Isles” fest, in which case, ignore me. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/32 "2002-07-23T14:25:50Z")
[sub]big burly sweaty guys…and FREE beer…with cookies…big burly sweaty guys giving me FREE beer…and feeding me cookies…big burly sweaty guys…FREE beer…cookies…big burly sweaty FREE beer…and cookies…guys…burly sweaty cookies…FREE beer…and guys…and…sweaty FREE cookie beer…burly cookies…sweaty FREE guys…and burly beer[/sub] **AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH!!! BRAIN OVERLOAD!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/33 "2002-07-23T15:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*This is a traditional Scottish food. I use the word “food” loosely here because haggis is Scottish for “grey paste made of sheep bits”. \*\* Haggis is made from offal, just like your hamburgers. Except it has oatmeal and various spices as well. > [@](#): > > **I was looking at some of the Scottish Sock Knives** It’s called a Sgain Dubh. Literally means ‘black knife’ and pronounced Skee-ann Doo. > [@](#): > > \*\*Only, they were all mad that there were other people there in the same outfits and they tried to whack each other with sticks. There was a guy playing the accordian too. That seemed pretty English. \*\* Totally. It’s called Morris Dancing. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/34 "2002-07-23T15:22:33Z")
**Rue** , I hate to break it to you, but if you bought it from a vendor at a Scottish/British festival in the USA, then you didn’t have haggis, you had ground liver with some random spices that tastes nothing at all like the genuine article. You should’ve just bought a couple of meat pies - they, at least, usually taste good. Real haggis is tasty. Real haggis is basically a loose sausage with some oats and barley in it with the spices. The taste is somewhere between what meatloaf is _supposed_ to taste like (but rarely does) and summer sausage, with a hint of oatmeal. Like any “exotic” food, it’s a lot easier to make bad pseudo-haggis than to make a good example of the real thing. Find a Robert Burns Night supper in January to go to and you’ll probably get real haggis as part of the meal. Oh, and it isn’t supposed to be grey. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/35 "2002-07-23T15:25:33Z")
**jjimm** - I raised the same objection when **Rue** first mentioned this fest in another post but was informed that it is indeed a British Isles Fest. As for whether we have a US Fest. Uh… no. It’s US day here every day. Macdonalds and Burger King! Baggy pants! 5ive and Barbara Streisand and Eminem! Friends and Frasier and Seinfeld! All America, all the time. It’s inescapable. **Rue** - I can see where the Steven King comparisons come from. But I think I prefer to think of you as Fred Flintstone, caveman extraordinaire. **Swampy** - do try not to make a mess on the carpet, dear. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/36 "2002-07-23T15:33:21Z")
OK since my last nitpick died, how about the horrifying fact that 5ive are English? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/37 "2002-07-23T15:39:35Z")
Are they? Oh dear god. I’m… uh… Canadian. Yeah, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/38 "2002-07-23T16:12:24Z")
**Burly Cookies** Band Name! ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/39 "2002-07-23T16:49:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Futile Gesture \* > \*\*Totally. It’s called Morris Dancing. \*\* They were all dressed alike _and_they were all named Morris? Too weird. Had I known that _I_might have hit them a couple of times with sticks. If I were to ever travel abroad, I’d tell people I was from Canadia too. Just not if I actually went to Canadia. They might catch on. -Rue. (Yabba dabba rue!) ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253/40 "2002-07-23T19:34:39Z")
I got about 1/3 of the way through **Flamsterette\_X** ’s initial post and realized she had out-Rue’d Rue. And that is an accomplishment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-day-of-haggis-or-walking-with-deth-at-my-side/120253.md?page=3)