{"id":93,"date":"2012-08-07T09:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T09:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2020-04-09T05:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:27:53","slug":"haggis-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/haggis-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Haggis (Scotland)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94\" title=\"haggis-scotland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haggis-scotland-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Haggis Scotland\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haggis-scotland-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haggis-scotland.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haggis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You may have heard someone joke about haggis before, but do you know what it is?&nbsp; This dish comes from Scotland and is well-known to be a traditional and popular Scottish dish.&nbsp; To prepare haggis, all you must do is take the lungs, heart and liver of a sheep and chop them up; and then mix them together with spices, onion and oatmeal.&nbsp; After you\u2019ve mixed it up well, pack it into a sheep\u2019s stomach and tie the ends tightly.&nbsp; Next, boil the final product in water for a few hours and voila!&nbsp; You have freshly prepared haggis ready to eat.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re hesitant to put something made of stomach into your stomach, you can always purchase haggis at a Scottish grocery or market.&nbsp; Many of the less expensive brands use artificial casings rather than actual sheep stomachs.&nbsp; But if you want to have the authentic experience, you can get real haggis complete with stomach from many pubs, hotels and bed and breakfasts.&nbsp; At the yearly Burns Supper (a holiday in Scotland that celebrates the poet Robert Burns) haggis is usually served with an accompanying shot of Scotch whiskey.&nbsp; Haggis is often compared to <a title=\"Scrapple\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/scrapple-usa\/\">scrapple<\/a>, and is said to have a similar taste and consistency.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard someone joke about haggis before, but do you know what it is?&nbsp; This dish comes from Scotland and is well-known to be a traditional and popular Scottish dish.&nbsp; To prepare haggis, all you must do is take the lungs, heart and liver of a sheep and chop them up; and then [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[32,26,39,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}