Haggis...

A traditional Scottish dish..which i wasn't 100% sure of what it contained when i ate it..3 times now in total..haha..

Haggis consists of sheep's lung, heart and liver.. there's oatmeal and other stuff in it too but people usually don't care about the other stuff...haha..anyways.. i knew it was to do with sheep's insides..but i didn't expect it to be heart, liver and lungs............

First time i had it was at the pastor's house and his wife didn't really tell us what it was and i only had a small spoonful of it and it didn't taste disgusting... Second time i had haggis, it was in a pizza.. so small amounts too and it was actually quite nice...

the third time was during Burn's supper, an event celebrating Robert Burns (the guy who wrote Auld Lang Syne) birthday.. i was served a mountain of haggis with mashed turnips and mashed potatoes which is probably the traditional way of having it...

Haggis wi' bashit neeps an' champit tatties -that's what it says on the menu...

It was such a big pile that i couldn't finish it... all the chewing made my jaw tired -.- .. but it was also that day that i found out what haggis really is... *sigh* .. but surprisingly, i wasn't disgusted by what it was.. the first thing i thought about was "wahhhhh! so much cholesterol!!!!" ..haha.. maybe i could be the next Andrew Zimmern ;D .. though i'm pretty sure i won't be trying any animal's testicles anytime soon :/



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