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Had haggis, it was ok I guess...

I think I threw up stuff that looked like haggis.

Never had haggis.

And biscuits and gravy are delicious.

Great White wrote:Never had haggis.

And biscuits and gravy are delicious.

Especially at camps. I don't know what they put in them. But dang are they good. (Nor do I want to know haha)

Why do you think its called sausage gravy?

Obviously because it has steak in it.

Melissia wrote:I think I threw up stuff that looked like haggis.

Fair game. I probably vomited over some biscuits and TAH-DAH!



Why don't you like our Bourbons? Or Ginger Nuts? Or Hobnobs?

WHY DO YOU HATE CRUMPETS?!

Haggis, Neps and tatties is amazing. If you like Black Pudding, (Blood sausage) then Haggis is amazing, so nice and filling and real cultural food.

A traditional British Food is (You won't believe this) called "Fa.ggots"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)

Having grown up in the upper Midwest I thought grits were something made up for TV or Movies, and never even considered biscuits anything other than dressing for my sausage and eggs at McDonalds. The D-Fac ladies in the south convinced me that Biscuits and Gravy are the bee's knees: and Pecan Pie is jawsome. (Grits are still aggressively mediocre.)

mwnciboo wrote:Haggis, Neps and tatties is amazing. If you like Black Pudding, (Blood sausage) then Haggis is amazing, so nice and filling and real cultural food.

Moose Blood Pudding from Norway is delicious. Why do Europeans seem to enjoy eating solidified blood?

BlapBlapBlap wrote:

mwnciboo wrote:Haggis, Neps and tatties is amazing. If you like Black Pudding, (Blood sausage) then Haggis is amazing, so nice and filling and real cultural food.

Moose Blood Pudding from Norway is delicious. Why do Europeans seem to enjoy eating solidified blood?

Cause of the purified rage.

Bromsy wrote:

BlapBlapBlap wrote:

mwnciboo wrote:Haggis, Neps and tatties is amazing. If you like Black Pudding, (Blood sausage) then Haggis is amazing, so nice and filling and real cultural food.

Moose Blood Pudding from Norway is delicious. Why do Europeans seem to enjoy eating solidified blood?

Cause of the purified RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE! and resourcefulness of them.

Fix'd.

Castiel wrote:Why did Americans have to rename everything? It confuses me.

Biscuits v cookies comes down to a language difference, really. Provincial latin v Dutch.

Biscuit comes from the latin via French for "twice cooked", and cookie comes from the Dutch for "small cake" (koekje) - because the Dutch originally had the New Amsterdam settlement and it spread from there. Originally, the cookie was more like a scone.

Somehow, the "Biscuit" in the US took on the traits of the English scone, whereas the "small cake" became a twice cooked hard thing that became either a cracker or cookie (savoury v sweet?)

mwnciboo wrote:Haggis, Neps and tatties is amazing. If you like Black Pudding, (Blood sausage) then Haggis is amazing, so nice and filling and real cultural food.

A traditional British Food is (You won't believe this) called "Fa.ggots"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)

Yeah you still get them in Morrisons, and they come in gravy!

Edit- And dakka even censors the picture link..

Americans call our biscuits cookies.

Weirdos.

Grits is only the US version of Gruts.

But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak it whissle;
An' legs an' arms, an' heads will sned,
Like taps o' thrissle. - Address to a Haggis - Robert Burns

Haggis is awesome. It needs said.

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Corpsesarefun wrote:I'll eat anything I like the taste of, I just dislike the taste of liver and kidney. Cheeks and trotters are good.

Same here, I like to try all kinds of food, but if I cant stand the taste thats it, I wont try it again for a number of years. Because sometimes your tastes change and you discover bad things are now good. Me......cannot stand liver, tried it many times, and it seems to just get worse and worse with age

Thank god you weren't served hagis like I was in Brisbane that was the most disgusting thing I've had ever!

Ive had haggis before, it was actually pretty good minus the liver.

Gravy? Thats not gravy. Gravy is brown and made from concentrated roasting juices and stock. That is white sauce with bits in.

Also, don't write off liver. Its normaly overcooked and not all liver is the same. Pigs liver tastes realy strong, where as lambs liver and calves liver is much milder taste.

If you don't know how to flash fry it safely then do liver with onions and bacon slow cooked. Fry the liver and bacon, sweat the onions, cover in stock (to make a real gravy ) put in a bay leaf and cook on 160C for two hours. Have with mash with lots of butter and some nice green veg. Much less chance of ending up with inedible dry gak.

There's more than one kind of gravy.

Aye the Yanks make white gravy and brown gravy and a few others, don't let the colour put you off, it tastes great.

Like white sausage!

BlapBlapBlap wrote:It looks like a mix of bread, crumpets and vomit 0_o

it may look like that (as kids we called it S.O.S.(s*** on a shingle)) but damn is it good


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BlapBlapBlap wrote:

Sgt_Scruffy wrote:

BlapBlapBlap wrote:It looks like a mix of bread, crumpets and vomit 0_o

Shun the non-believer. Biscuits and gravy is a staple of Army chow halls. Also known as gak-on-a-Shingle, or SOS for short. Seriously, a fresh (mom-made) biscuit with chipped beef gravy is fething divine.

That's gravy?!

OHHH for feths sake you don't know what chipped beef is no wonder we rebelled

Liver is the devil. Gravy is saintly. Haggis is bland sausage. Knowing is half the battle.

mattyrm wrote: Aye the Yanks make white gravy and brown gravy and a few others, don't let the colour put you off, it tastes great.

Like white sausage!

I'm not sure how to take this.

Amaya wrote:

mattyrm wrote: Aye the Yanks make white gravy and brown gravy and a few others, don't let the colour put you off, it tastes great.

Like white sausage!

I'm not sure how to take this.

I meant you know.. like Venison Sausages and that?

Well, and cock.


....

No no.. just venison.

Amaya wrote:

mattyrm wrote: Aye the Yanks make white gravy and brown gravy and a few others, don't let the colour put you off, it tastes great.

Like white sausage!

I'm not sure how to take this.

You might wanna reword that....

Amaya wrote:There's more than one kind of gravy.

Yes, beef, chicken, pork, veg. Lord knows what animal your roasting to get that colour gravy.

mattyrm wrote: Aye the Yanks make white gravy and brown gravy and a few others, don't let the colour put you off, it tastes great.

Like white sausage!

"Gravy is a sauce, made often from the juices that run naturally from meat or vegetables during cooking. In North America the term can refer to a wider variety of sauces and gravy is often thicker than in Britain."

There you go. Wikipedia says that its a sauce and if its on wikipedia it must be a fact! Yanks are wrong, the British are right, God Save the Queen!

Also, do you meen white sausage as in Weisswurst, or white pudding as in the black pudding stuff from scotland?

Electro wrote:

Amaya wrote:There's more than one kind of gravy.

Yes, beef, chicken, pork, veg. Lord knows what animal your roasting to get that colour gravy.

mattyrm wrote: Aye the Yanks make white gravy and brown gravy and a few others, don't let the colour put you off, it tastes great.

Like white sausage!

"Gravy is a sauce, made often from the juices that run naturally from meat or vegetables during cooking. In North America the term can refer to a wider variety of sauces and gravy is often thicker than in Britain."

There you go. Wikipedia says that its a sauce and if its on wikipedia it must be a fact! Yanks are wrong, the British are right, God Save the Queen!

You are basing a factual statement on wikipedia. FAIL

ohh and its white because of the flour. sausage gravy is actualla brownish tinge. hmmm... better go see my Great Aunt Grace i need me some chipped beef gravy and biscuts

chromedog wrote:

Castiel wrote:Why did Americans have to rename everything? It confuses me.

Biscuits v cookies comes down to a language difference, really. Provincial latin v Dutch.

Biscuit comes from the latin via French for "twice cooked", and cookie comes from the Dutch for "small cake" (koekje) - because the Dutch originally had the New Amsterdam settlement and it spread from there. Originally, the cookie was more like a scone.

Somehow, the "Biscuit" in the US took on the traits of the English scone

The American biscuit is tthe proper, actual biscuit derived from hardtack (and its roman forebearer, the buccellum) The british confectionary biscuit came later on..

captain collius wrote:
You are basing a factual statement on wikipedia. FAIL

You do know that was the joke... Infact the whole post was tongue in cheek?