Thatās horrible. Squirrels, cows, monkeys, rabbits, chickens, and dogs are not meant to be food!!
(Cats, of course, however, are.)
Reminds me of my grandfather. He used to call my cat ātaco meat.ā
One of my dadās favorite jokes is to ask people if theyāve been to āthat new Chinese joint.ā When the person asks which one, he says, āThe Golden Retriever.ā
dog, monkey, rattlesnake, rabbit, squirrel, tongue, grasshopper (raw), grasshopper (cooked), goat, kimcheeā¦but no haggis (yet).
My greatest issue with the Clinton Administration is that it was under his watch that the FDA banned haggis importation. As it happened in the infancy of the web, I had to console myself with a stern letter to the editor of the Albuquerque Tribune.
If you havenāt had any haggis yet, you might try this stuff ā Caledonian Kitchens Haggis. Itās tasty, and a look at the ingredients list (Highland Beef, Hydrated Pin Oats, Water, Refined Beef Suet, Liver, Spices and Onions) shows that the more dubious parts of the sheep have been omitted. Indeed, theseās no sheep in it at all, and it beats squirrel hands, or rather, hooves down.
Lamb haggis is scheduled for release this spring, but in deference to Lambchop, I will forgo the opportunity. Or at the very least, I will forgo talking about it.
There is a Scots lady who works at the bakery of the grocery store near my home in South Carolina who has a haggis āconnectionā (as she puts it).
Next January, by God, thereāll be a Burns supper at my house!
They make some excellent haggis. At NTIF they had a food vendor (in addition to their booth) They made a haggis egg that was excellent. Just like a scotch egg but with haggis instead of sausage. Man, mouth watering just thinking about it
Yes, but what does it taste like? Is there any American product close to it? Or even remotely resembling it?
Sounds a lot like meatloaf, if you ask me. Any resemblance there?
Does the meat part, being canned, come out tasting like other canned meats? Canned corned beef hash? Dinty Moore Beef Stew?
Lamb haggis is scheduled for release this spring, but in deference to Lambchop, I will forgo the opportunity. Or at the very least, I will forgo talking about it.
British Poussin otherwise called spatchcock!
MarkB
The problem I have with canned stuff is they either add sugar or salt.
I have enough inane drivel right here to drive up my post count. 
It taste like beef with a slight liver taste. Not too much as I cannot stand liver. I have heard that the closest american dish taste wise is boudin, but i havenāt had enough boudin to really judge.
I see. So, are you wondering what Iām doing posting today? And why Iām not in Orlando?
An old friend, who I havenāt seen for years, once offered me some head cheese. Now, what I had ever seen of head cheese was the awful looking stuff at a local deli which looked like strange shaped meat bound by gelatinous goo, so I stammered a bit. But, knowing that my friend was an absolute fusspot about clean and wholesome food, and that he came from a forest settlement in Northern Louisiana of very interesting folks whose heritage was escaped slaves and Indians, I demurred, as everything he had ever cooked was fantastic. Delicious. Looked nothing like the stuff in the deli but rather, like a flat meatloaf in a roasting pan.
Oh yeah, and I had delicious venison steaks for dinner on Saturday. They looked like lamb shoulder chops, were nearly as tender and required no pounding. Best I ever had. My brother-in-law musta got 'im in one shot so the meat was sweet not gamy (it tastes stronger when they run away and pump blood and adrenalin into their tissue, or so the hunters say).
Squirrel meat? Nevairrrr!
Just make sure your haggis is of the āfree-rangeā varietyā¦
you donāt want none oā thems whats grown on a farm and fed steroids!
Growing up in Phila. we ate scrapple - The Haggis I had in Scotland was a little like scrapple mixed with liverwurst. Actually itās pretty good as a side dishā¦
Well, if heās not I am. Or rather, wondering why you were going to be in Orlando today. Well, maybe best to leave as is! 
Oh, WARNING, if you eat squirrels. I read that there could be the same virus in the squirrels brains that causes that form of mad cow disease in peopleāthat spongiform encephalitis or something. Donāt eat the brains or the spinal cord. Iām not sure the information is correct, but this guy thought he was on to something. I canāt give a citation unfortunately.
I eat crow now and again. I think of my cat as being there just in case.
Yes, that is correct about the squirrel-brain thing. Another prion disease. Thought to be the cause of the ācrazed mountain manā phenomenon in the Appalachians.
See the āTestā forum for the explanation of why Iām not in Orlando.
I donāt see anything there but I wasnāt wondering anyway.