honest to god, i dont think a country that puts yoga mat ingredients in their food should be picky about any thing any other country makes. Half the chemicals your country allows in your food is ridiculous but your not allowed to eat organ meat of an animal, instead you throw it away to rot. Plus only two of those were British food.
Ya know, spray cheese isn't nearly as common or popular as non-US citizens think. I don't eat it, nor can I think of one person who eats it. You can buy it, but it's honestly not that ordinary. So there's that.
AND eats GRITS omggg i spat that out, quick smart. It was tasteless and the texture ughhh!!!!. Plus, nearly everything has GMO's in it or made with the use of. As for the spray cheese, i have to admit, it was the only thing named cheese that sort of, kinda tasted like cheese. Probably due to all the chemicals lolll. Their actual cheese is so mild it's tasteless. I could talk all day about what we experienced in 3wks, food wise alone loll
Haggis was originally created as a food by poor Scottish farmers who were struggling to make a living, so they were forced to use every bit of animals that they could. So they used the offal minced it up and added oatmeal and spices to make it more palatable and stuffed it into a sheep's stomach for cooking (can be boiled, baked or fried - boiled is best for my taste). Little did they know they were actually creating one of the tastiest foodstuffs known to man. Knowing what goes into it puts a lot of people off, but believe me it tastes absolutely lovely. Basically a case of don't knock it until you've tried it. It's traditionally eaten along with mashed potatoes and swede. Known as "Haggis, neeps and tatties" here in Scotland. I will say it can be bad for causing indigestion in some people though, especially if you eat too much or have alcohol and/or acidic drinks with it.
Not true. It predates farming when hunting was dominant and organ meats were prepared straight after the hunt to be eaten and preseved as highly nutritionally dense food. The world over Hunter-Gatherers use every part of the animal and there was rarely waste; Scotland was no different really. Look up The Good Scots Diet article by Westing Price Foundation and how such traditional and simple fare was responsible for the 'strapping' Highlander!
@@lindsaymckeown513 - That may be true about "nutritionally dense food" in general, but the dish we know today as haggis definitely originated from farmers in south-west Scotland in the 17th to 18th centuries. Anything similar around before that was not true haggis. Haggis has never been a traditionally highland dish. It's a traditionally southern Scottish dish - originating in Ayrshire.
@@bobsteele9581 Sorry, Bob, that is a misconception! Haggis as we know it today, accomapnied by neeps and tatties was obviously recorded by Burns in Address to a Haggis and would have been from his experiences in Ayrshire, for sure. However, there are Medieval, written references to haggis with both Old English and French spellings (which I can't recall!) so can't even be claimed to be Scottish. I did not connect it to the Highlands, but referenced you to the Highland diet and the importance of offal and it's nutritional profile rather than it being a meal of the poor forced into eating it. There is evidence across the whole of Northern Europe and beyond of offal with grains etc being bundled and cooked within either the stomach linings or intestine casings of various animals.Haggis with neeps and tatties has become a Scottish national dish since the time of Burns due to his ode but I can't recall how important the accompianment of the veg and tuber were before the work and acclaim of Burns. Haggis by itself is highly unlikmely to be of singular Scottish etymology at all in the same way that the various traditional use of rendered fat, and urine for softening animal skins can be.
@@lindsaymckeown513 - Yes I know the references your referring to and you are certainly correct about that, and they were certainly part of the evolution of the modern dish, but they were almost certainly not referring to haggis in the modern sense. There was no fixed recipe for the mix of meats oatmeal and spices (particularly the specific mix of spices that give modern haggis it's flavour) until the 17th Century (possibly the 16th at a push), and that was certainly developed in south-west Scotland. Anyway regardless of it's history - the main point is - it tastes great 😁👍
Haggis containing liver, lung and heart is about using every part of the animal and not wasting any. In olden times especially, every part of the animal is used, be it food, clothing, glue, whatever. Plenty of american food has heart and liver in it, they just dont mention it in the ingredients and call it "beef"
I was born in The UK and grew up here. In my 63 years have never eaten Haggis or Caviar. And guess what, I hate tea. Much of the things that the media say about what people eat are exaggerated or are myths. Can’t beat a good Cornish pasty though.
I haven't eaten anything on this video. To be honest watching this makes me very thankful to be a vegetarian, almost a vegan as I only eat cheese, everything else is plant based.
@@shelleyjackson8793 Well I hope you eat 'Vegetarian Friendly' cheese (i.e. cheese that doesn't use natural rennet,) otherwise you're not even a vegetarian!
@@JulesLumley Well he's not very smart then lol regardless of how he feels about it, British = English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish along with the channel islands. Ain't even up for debate, that's just a matter of fact lol
For those who don't know, Surströmmimg is fermented herring. As in rotten. There are lots of videos on YT of folk attempting to eat it. The results will make you split your sides laughing.
@@cogboy302 I've also seen natives annoying it. It's like the century egg.. if its not eaten with the right complements to balance the fermentation its gonna taste rank. Sustroming is usually eaten on flat breads with pickled sourcroaut (probably spelt that wrong)
Beluga caviar. So disgusting that Americans couldn’t stop eating it, causing the over fishing that resulted in the ban. Clearly not disgusting is it. Also, there’s nothing offensive about haggis. I guarantee a lot worse goes into cheap sausages and hot dogs.
I'm pretty sure Haggis is made in a synthetic casing now days,It traditionally used to be made in a sheep's stomach , im sure sausages used to be made in an intestines but are also made in a synthetic casing now ?
Depends where you buy haggis from. Supermarkets, e.t.c tend to use synthetic casings, but most butchers stick with the traditional sheep's stomach as a casing.
If you are going to eat an animal, it is respectful to be open to eating every part, and not leave what are actually the most nutritious parts to waste. Not only nutritious but quite tasty too. When my sons were little, I thought I would introduce Burn's Night as an experience as they had a Scottish grandmother. I didn't tell them too much about the haggis, but they ate it quite happily along with the neeps and tatties.
Haggis is bloody lovely, as is black pudding. You can have either or both of them sliced and fried as part of a fry-up for breakfast - black pudding is normal with a full English when haggis and Lorne (square) sausages are normal on a full Scottish breakfast, along with bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, fried bread, toast and anything else you want.
You can buy a gun at Walmart, but not without the same checks and regulations of buying it in a gun store, good grief. Try to just walk out with a shotgun in your shopping cart and you're in for disappointment.
My paternal grand father always waited till his Stilton cheese had maggots crawling in it. The smell was awful. He lived without electric light in a 4 room cottage and had a single cold tap in his "kitchen". My grandparents raised 8 kids, 7 boys and a girl, in this small cottage in a farming village in rural Lincolnshire. He died at the age of 94. He'd been retired from work for just a year.
Not a very British list! Haggis is good and they can be any size, Haggis was originally a way to use up every part of an animal and leaving no waste, but it's really tasty! You have to have it with mashed potato (tatties) and turnips (neeps), and I also like it served with whisky sauce.
@@Gavthelegend Bacon, haggis, Lorne sausage, white pudding, fruit pudding, tattie scone, mushrooms and a goose egg. But I'm a farmer and am always hungry after the morning milking.
Only Haggis, which is really tasty, raw milk and kinder surprise are eaten in the UK. I have not heard of half of these foods. Haggis was developed in a time when people used every part of the animal, people could not afford waste. The huge one in the film was at a Burns Night supper, which is a holiday in Scotland. The Haggis is piped into the room, someone will read Robbie Burns poem "Ode to the Haggis", before it is cut into and shared. The outside casing is not eaten.
most pople forget that there are people around middle age who remember sheeps head stew, because thier grandparents still used every part of an animal, it wasnt banned until the BSE epidemic and finding it was probably based behind certain things being passed down in processed animal feeds made from bits of various animals, including brain and bones
Raw milk is now illegal to distribute in Scotland...grrr! This stems from an outbreak of something, can't remember what, which was actually proven to be from pasteurised milk. The Dairy industry was very powerful and wealthy back then and used this to constantly badger politicians, blackmail farmers, influence media, probably grease palms, to blame the raw milk sector by inference and repetition. You can still get it sent up from England or Wales, but the postage costs more than the milk which is expensive as it is. I grew up drinking milk from the cow.
Only food native to UK is haggis, which is wonderful, raw milk is readily available though, as are Kinder eggs (Italian?). definately with you on the rest JT - could not go near that cheese.
Many foods (such as Haggis, Black Pudding, Caviar, oysters and others) were originally eaten by peasants, or the poor, or during economic troubles. Rather than throwing the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, blood etc away, they were eaten to get nutritious, filling food when nothing else was available or affordable. Like many peasant foods they were initially disregarded by the middle and upper classes until much after the initial need was in the past. Just like many poor areas in cities that go from slums, to 'Artist Quarters' and then gentrified as time goes on. Haggis (as an English woman who has travelled a lot) is delicious. Often bought now in plastic instead of a Sheep's stomach.
Originally eaten by hunter gatherers where the internal organs were prized due their nutritionally dense profile. Only when trade brought more exotic foods and a network of nobles increasingly contolled the land and had serfs that it became looked down on as a 'poor' food.
I grew drinking untreated milk from a nearby dairy farm in the UK and never got ill from it. You can only sell it here if the herd is certified disease-free and examined regularly, but most farmers drink their own milk untreated anyway. The risk to adults is minimal so long as the cows are well cared-for.
Haggis sounds disgusting, but you'd be pleasantly surprised at the taste. I have had a couple when I've been in Edinburgh and it's delicious with mashed potato and gravy.
Never needed to bother with gravy, but mixed up in mash potatoes, it is a lot better eating, the haggis adds flavour, the mash adds a lot less itself in flavour but does cut the flavour of haggis to something your palette likes. Eating neat haggis would be like drinking neat hot sauce, mixing it with tatties is like eating hot sauce on chicken.
I love the vegetarian Haggis from Sainsbury’s I find the meat ones have too much pepper seasoning in them. Shouldn’t be a problem to import the veggie one into the US as it doesn’t have any offal in it. I have had very good Haggis in the USA made by a Scottish hotel chef on Burns Night in Norfolk Va.
I only tried haggis for the first time this year (my local butcher makes it in-house around Burns Night) and I loved it. It is like a very rich and savoury sausage; I have a good appetite, but when served with a creamy whiskey sauce and the traditional sides, it is incredibly filling - I suppose that was rather the point, though, making a small amount of food go a very long way! But it is truly delicious. As for shark fin, you may have spotted a clip of Gordon Ramsay in the video - he made a fantastic documentary on the shark fin trade, well worth watching!
Lived in Scotland nearly all my life, over 40 years, love haggis. Never ever heard it called a pudding until this video. They seem to be confusing it with Black Pudding or White Pudding, which are also in casings a bit like haggis and have pudding in their names but other than those and Yorkshire Puddings, pudding means dessert in the UK. Also never had one that came in a sheep's stomach. That's the traditional way but you don't typically see it in supermarkets. Maybe if you buy it from a traditional butcher but I have never done that.
Haggis is the great chieftain of the pudding race. Robert Burns christened it that in his poem ` Address to a Haggis` and why we eat it on Burns night, and every other day of the year . Here's the first verse. Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang ‘s my arm. Its in Scots😁
As has already been mentioned: It's the "chieftain of the pudding race" and the word pudding is defined (in the OED,) as: "'A boiled, steamed or baked dish made with various sweet... or savoury ingredients added to the mixture"; Also, if you'd lived in Scotland for 40 years, you'll have experienced 'black pudding' and 'white pudding', so I find it hard to believe you'd never heard Haggis being classed as 'a pudding'!
You would love Haggis JT! It is served across the board from the humble fish & chip shop to high end restaurants. Its rich, gamey & slightly spicy. Yes, it contains Offal (Sheeps Lung, known as "Pluck" is what is banned in the US). In the UK, farming standards are such, that all Offal is safe for human consumption & is actually very tasty when prepared correctly. The Haggis itself doesn't always come in a Sheep's stomach) only the most expensive brands or large ones for ceremonial banquets. In commercial settings it is encased either a vinyl or cellulose casing to help it steam when it cooks (You don't eat the outside casing regardless of what you get). As the video suggests, its normally served with Mashed Potatoes, Mashed Swede/Turnip/Carrots and a whisky based mustard & cream sauce. You could consider this dish as the national dish of Scotland and Edinburgh's most popular dish. We would normally have it more in the Winter months, due to its very rich hearty taste and specifically on St Andrews Day (30th November), A Hogmanay Banquet at New Year (31st December) & Burns Night (25th January). Its normally brought into banquet halls accompanied by a Bagpipes and an "Address To The Haggis" poem (Robert Burns) is recited as the Haggis is carved before serving by the Toast Master. Everyone also raises a toast to the Haggis as it is being sliced open for good luck and prosperity. When it comes to fast-food haggis - in Fish & Chip shops & curry houses. you will find it served as nuggets, slices and in pakora. You can also buy it as a pizza topping in some Scottish-Italian Pizza Restaurants & topping for Poutine (Canadian Dish)
The big haggis called a Chieftain. For Burns Night the day that celebrates Robert Burns, Scotlands nation poet or Bard. The ban in the USA made celebrating Burns Night harder in the White House, but previous administrations got around this by importing Chieftain Haggi under diplomatic bag via the Canadian embassy or that of other countries. There is a shop in Portobello, Scotland that is famous for making haggis and is the source of the Haggis consumed in the White House. The shark fin thing is worse.. the dish is called Putrefied Shark Fin, part of its ban and status as a delicacy, but yuk
OMG, how did you get so old and not know about Louis Pasteur? I learn about milk pasteurization while I was at junior school. If you are wondering he was French.
I grew up on unpasteurised (raw) milk in Ireland. It's not homogenised, so if left to sit a while, it settles out with the cream on the top. It's delicious. My Mum also used to make me drink eggnogg as a teenager, to try put some weight on me. Pint of raw milk, two raw eggs mixed in, sugar & brandy. One every day. I wasn't complaining, as it had brandy in it.
Here in the north of england Haggis is quite rare for most of the year, (the canned variety is always available, but tastes disgusting.) I look forward to the times when one of my local supermarkets haa a large stock of Haggis, because I know that it isn't going to sell too well. All I have to do is bide my time for about a week, when the stores cut the price of all their remaining stock (usually lots!) then I can get all I need at a bargain price, and stock up my freezer!
@@DaveBartlett Agree I bought canned type it was horrible. Sainsburys sell fresh ones coming up to Burns night they are nice. Look like large sausages they are tasty do original and vegetarian
I found out in Thailand they feed cats coffee beans, and wait for them to come out the other end, and use them to make coffee. Also in China they soak eggs in young boys urine.
Nice video thanx. I've had Haggis a couple of times, its really nice, it tastes like a slightly spicy minced meat. Like a lot of older foods, it was eaten by the poor who did not want to waste the offel, eg: lungs, liver and hearts, so found a way to use them. I've not had Cavier, but I have had cod roe, (which are much smaller fish eggs), we often have them in the UK in Chip Shops, eg: a Cod Roe deep fried in batter and its very nice. Shark fin soup? Nah mate, thats just rank!!! 8-)
14:47 I was taught that you place a napkin over your head, when eating ortolan, so you can hide your shame from the eyes of God. I was also taught something about the flavour that isn't mentioned. Other than the fatiness from being overfed, and the armagnac, another key element to the flavour... is your own blood. When you bite into the tiny bird, the bones shatter & lacerate the inside of your mouth while you're chewing. Tasting your own blood, along with the bird, is an important part of the dish.
Hello! I've lived in England my whole life and I just wanted to say , I've never had ANY of these except for the kinder surprise eggs and maybe the plum
You have got to try haggis JT, its like a nicely spiced sausage and it's so versatile. I love having a full Scottish breakfast, more even than a full English
Haggis is indeed delicious, but some are better than others. Usually in the form of a sausage cut into slices for traditional breakfasts. My recommendation to you is, before trying it, look for good reviews first. Haggis, neeps and tatties, (Haggis, turnip and mashed potatoes) with a whisky sauce is delicious, (or "fire" as you would say, lol) but do try the haggis on it's own, as you like spice, this peppery delight will go down well.
"neeps" in Scotland are known as turnips in the north of England, but are commonly known as 'swede'. 'Turnips' generally are the small green and white varieties, whereas 'nepes' are the larger orange fleshed (with purple skin) type known in the USA as rutabega.
I’ve never heard of Cayenne being put in Haggis. I’m pretty sure that it’s mainly ground pepper, ground coriander and mace. I’m also pretty sure that it’s imported Haggis that’s banned and that you can get Haggis that’s been made in the US because it’s literally just the consumption of lung that’s banned. Just think of it as a form of crumbly meatloaf that has been made with some spices. As that’s what the texture is reminiscent of. I’ve not had the meat version since some time in the 80’s when I was young as I became a vegetarian in that decade as a teenager but I will tell you that vegetarian Haggis is great and if you did get too nervous to try the meat version you can always try the vegetarian one first to get an idea of the flavour profile (only an idea, as the recipe will vary slightly from butcher to butcher). There are also many recipes available online, though don’t go for the one’s that contain cumin in the recipe as the flavour profile is all wrong. But it might be an idea for you to try and make a vegetarian Haggis for Burns Night (January 25th) next year as Haggis is what is traditionally served at a Burns Supper. You might also enjoy the traditional Scottish New Years meal of Steak Pie (sometimes containing sausages too) served with mashed potato and vegetables.
You turn your nose up at Haggis ? have a look at whats in your hot dogs lol Meat from an animal's head, feet, liver, fatty tissue, lower-grade muscle, blood, and MORE can be included in what is described as “meat trimmings,” or the primary source of meat for hot dogs
Lung is a big part of what gives haggis it's flavour... but yeah, it's no longer boiled in a sheep's stomach (at least not typically). It's also variable in size... usually about the size of a softball, but some places make larger ones. They are also insanely flavourful and yummy.
If it’s banned in the uk means the world shouldn’t eat it and if people argue with me then what would you rather real food or American standards 😂 Uk has the best and longest history with virus and making many many many medicines to counter new threats daily , Uk is the go to for anything to do with safety with food and outbreaks like ebola
@@garibaldi54 you are right as many rules in farming are bad and should be managed by actual farmers . Also the wildlife situation and laws as example the badger which causes many problems for livestock but Yh I agree with you there mate 👍🏽 And Yh foot mouth disease true it takes time but also hard to combat but yes they cause many risk which scientists combat daily and now with Ai they are able to do research more accurately and a little by faster .
@@As.11.11 Farmers are the ones who set the rules as far as livestock goes, thats the problem they only care about maximizing their own profit which is why these issues occur. Modern farms are basically a breeding ground for zoonotic diseases. And pumping animals full of antibiotics poses a serious threat to humanity. Also Badgers are responsible for like 9% of all cases of TB.
@@garibaldi54 right well you seemed very informed so thank you I learnt quite a bit but yes farmers do try profit which is how life goes sadly but it’s the ones who truly mean good who are the ones to support . Thank you man and 9% good info I’ll deffo check it out !!!!!! 👍🏽
@garibaldi54 This is not strictly true. Farming is risky and expensive. Rules are broken mainly out of desperation (farmers are also likely to commit suicide). Some large farm owned by conglomerates break rules for pure profit, while some small farms bend the rules to prevent losses, it is rarely to make massive profits. It might be that they want cash to mitigate risk in another season. Regulation is less in more remote areas
Im english and i love haggis. People were pourer years ago so nothing went to waste i like braun which is pigs brain in jelly. The offal is the best part of the animal i.m.o
Only one British food on this list. American food is processed crap full of additives and preservatives. Have you eaten yoga matt recently the same chemical used in the production of yoga mats is put into your food as a preservative. You look in disgust at the ingredients of Haggis but you'll gladly eat a hotdog.
I think the title is a little misleading. Only one of these is actually British and that’s Haggis. God know we don’t need more people seeing this video and further convincing themselves that our food is crap 😂
So what’s the name of the island you live on, it’s a geographical name not a country, also Scotland was a major player in the British empire owning most of the slave plantations in the Caribbean. The most popular name in Jamaica is Campbell. Most of the Protestant settler in northern island are from Scotland
The US banned Beluga because it's primary source outside the USA is Russia. To be more accurate the Caspian Sea bordered by Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan. If they were so protective of it why was the United States the 4th largest exporter of caviar in 2019
When people had less money to spend poor people would eat various parts of cattle ,sheep and pigs that were cheaper ,my father would eat parts of the animal I would never touch like Sheep's brains ,not unpleasant,pigs trotters, Ok ,you need to know to cook them ,this was .
@@trevorlsheppard7906 why do you think the Chinese eat bugs, when nothing's is left you eat what you have... It's now normal to eat them... It's not choice, it's desperation that drives extreme food choices. You think eels, welks, cockles and muscles were a culinary choice in London?
The unpasteurised milk I had of a farmer we were staying at his farm was the best tasting milk I've ever had ,like the USA UK farmers can sell unpasteurised milk ,advice is not to consume if you're aged over 65 , pregnant ,young children and people whose immune system is compromised,like cancer patients ❤❤.
@@daveofyorkshire301 Can on one comprehend what is being said/written ,you need lessons in comprehension,that is exactly what Is exactly what I was saying,my father ate these cuts of meat because when he was young his family had little money,this would have been in the 19 20s /30 s in the great depression,he enjoyed them so he kept eating them . Happy Now ,go away and learn how to understand what's written.
@@trevorlsheppard7906 The Great Depression was the USA, the world is bigger than that. Germany collapsed due to the USA reneiging on promised WWI aid which crashed the Germany economy. But the Great Depression wasn't worldwide it was a US event. Other than that the reason people start eating certain items is because it's the only thing available to them. In time it may become normalised like some of the weird delicacies out there. Apart from that I have no idea what your post is about... Where's this "happy now" bit come from? Annoyed I replied or that you didn't want me too? Why this is an open forum and a thread I started...
You can make Haggis without the Heart and Lungs. This is done by using the liver and other cheap offcuts of lamb or beef. It must always be equal portions of the meats. There are recipes online at Rampant Scotland.
Little fact for you. Most of the States in the USA do not allow to sell raw milk for human consumption. But they can sell it for animal consumption. As long as you say your buying it for your animals you can buy it and drink it yourself. It's how Homesteaders are getting around the law. I know people that do this lol raw milk is nice that's all I'm going to say lol
Years ago I had Shark Fin Soup at a Chinese restaurant in Spain. Ethically I wouldn't eat it now (I didn't know better back then) but OMG it's absolutely delicious. Sort of like a mushroom soup with a hint of the sea (think fresh breezes on the ocean) and the texture of the fins was a little like mushroom too. Haggis is great sliced on a burger. Works for black pudding too.
Tip for you if you try Haggis: mix it up a LOT with mashed potatoes. Then cut back to less mash with haggis as you prefer it. NEAT Haggis is, lets say, unfortunate. Myself it is nice mixed about half haggis and half neeps/tatties, but your mileage may vary. It is too spiced and "robust" if it isn't mixed up with at least some mash, but if you like your food more spicy, you might put less mash in the mix.
Haggis, is hard to get in UK outside of Scotland, except from butchers just before Burns night. When you visit, go to Edinburgh to try it. Beluga caviar comes from Russia that is why its banned (since when has US cared about a spices), you can buy sturgeon spices (there are 28 Sp. several of which are critically endangered) at most shops that sell goldfish, for your pond here in UK The thing about raw milk, it has a short shelf life, should really be used the same day, but many recipes (especially cheeses) need unpasteurized milk, yes it tastes different why does abusing the animals we eat, seem like a deliberate world policy. "oh yes, lets keep it in such confined spaces, it cant move and never let it see the sky" i don't eat meat much i am never going to Sardinia! named after sardines (which make me feel ill) with that attitude to cheese, i would not eat anything there traditionally shark is good meat and feeds many people, the fin was the cheap cut (not good for anything but soup), because poor people and people with good money management, had nostalgia for it, the popularity rose (like frog legs in France)
Haggis comes in lots of sizes. If 8ts a big event like Burn night youll likely see thrm bigger. It comes from a time when not a lot of food or meat was available, so people used all parts of animals. Its usually a synthetic stomach lining now. Haggis is amazing. I do have it often.
I LOVE Haggis, and I'm English! When I was a young apprentice back in the sixties I lived with a Scottish family, and they introduced me to Haggis, neeps and tatties, and I have been a great fan ever since. Delicious!
Ive been lucky enough to try real beluga caviar many years back at a champagne and caviar boutique for my 25th birthday, over all its ok.. but JT if you like salmon and trout - i recommend trying their roe (caviar/eggs what ever you wanna call them) salmon and trout eggs are orange and have that lovely creamy delicate salmon taste not strong at all, trout roe is the same but the eggs are slightly small.. then you have tobiko - the flying fish roe which are teeeny eggs, all are nice and i would pick them over beluga or even the cheap lump fish caviar you can get now in the super markets. Salmon and trout roe is still abit pricey per gram but way more affordable like 50g jar for around 30 uk pounds
I used to drink so much milk, just like you JT! I loved it. Grew up drinking it with meals too. Sadly, about 7 or 8 years ago I suddenly became lactose intolerant, so now I can't drink it at all. I can have dairy in small amounts with a lactase supplement, but drinking milk is out :(
My Wife is Scottish & I've tried Haggis. I'll be honest I'm not a massive fan but I know plenty of people who love it. Ackee fruit is delicious 😋 a Jamaican Café in our village in England. Sells a Saltfish and Ackee Wrap 🌯 I'd completely recommend trying it if you're ever in a position to.
Haggis is basically peasant food. Cuts that would otherwise be discarded. All regions of the UK have their local specialities. Haggis is very tastiest.
I had a friend when my kids were small. Her husband was a farmer and they fed uñpasteurised milk to their kids including a six month old baby. He went on to develop a dairy allergy and it made him very ill.
In olden times pudding meant food that was steamed or boiled in some sort of covering for example muslin, suet or animal intestine. It could be sweet or savoury. Homemade Steak and kidney pudding is encased in suet and steamed in a muslin bag. Various types of sponge pudding, like spotted dick, were steamed in a muslin bag. As time went on sweet puddings were consumed more than savoury puddings so, the UK, the word pudding is more used to describe the desert part of a meal.
1 tip about cats JT, they DO NOT LIKE doors being closed. I have 4 cats and even if they are sleeping, if you close a door, they immediately want to go though it.
Yeah, it's called making full use of the animal. Something everyone but the richest used to do at all times. There's nothing wrong with them, it's just we have become so accustomed to only eating the 'best' cuts. Some dishes still use them, liver & onions, steak & kidney, etc. I'm assuming heart & lungs maybe don't have the nicest textures so are only used minced up like in haggis.
@@Orion3T Liver & Onions is one of my favourite meals. I also love Lambs hearts roasted as well. Like you say, in days gone by, people couldn't afford to waste anything.
I'm ok about eating any part of an animal, inside or out, from Ox Tongue to Pig's Trotters, I might decline something on terms of taste, flavour or texture, but never for reasons of being squeamish. I will never eat tripe though - there I do draw the line. Not only is the taste and texture bloody awful, but it also smells so bad while cooking it, that it's impossible to develop an appetite for it!
I am surprised that haggis has not been banned in England and Wales, it is discusting! I tried it once, never ever again and that was before I knew what it contained!
honest to god, i dont think a country that puts yoga mat ingredients in their food should be picky about any thing any other country makes. Half the chemicals your country allows in your food is ridiculous but your not allowed to eat organ meat of an animal, instead you throw it away to rot. Plus only two of those were British food.
Yes lol there was a study done recently on US fast food, actual wood chipping were found in some 😆
@@HelloRando good ruffage that!
A country that produces spray on cheese has no right to say anything negative about European food.......
Ya know, spray cheese isn't nearly as common or popular as non-US citizens think. I don't eat it, nor can I think of one person who eats it. You can buy it, but it's honestly not that ordinary. So there's that.
dude we literally put soft cheese spread in toothpaste style tubes all over Europe
@@topsanger7219 Indeed, in the UK we have Primula Cheese Spread in a toothpaste style tube.
AND eats GRITS omggg i spat that out, quick smart. It was tasteless and the texture ughhh!!!!. Plus, nearly everything has GMO's in it or made with the use of. As for the spray cheese, i have to admit, it was the only thing named cheese that sort of, kinda tasted like cheese. Probably due to all the chemicals lolll. Their actual cheese is so mild it's tasteless. I could talk all day about what we experienced in 3wks, food wise alone loll
But its not artificially created 😂😅@@topsanger7219
These foods are banned in america, but bleach and rat poison in McDonald's fries are allowed, and don't get me started on American hotdogs.🤢🤮🤷♂️🤦♂️.
I'm just going to say it. Hotdogs suck compared to a normal sausage or link as some Americans seem to say in the same bun.
@@matthewtalbot-paine7977 Why you would eat hotdogs WILLINGLY over pork sausage i will never know, the cheapest sausages are still better than hotdogs
@@Llama_charmer Yay I found a sensible person!
@@matthewtalbot-paine7977especially when you go to Germany and have a currywurst it is a million miles better than any American equivalent
I'm not taking culinary advice from a country that has to bleach it's chicken to make it safe to eat.
Or a country that uses the word salad and twix in the same sentence.
We use chlorinated water on our fruit, veg and salad
American has no food of its own.
@@shaunrye7740 Chlorine is used for cleaning our water mains.
@@shaunrye7740 That doesn’t cover up terrible living conditions for the chickens though.
16:24 maggot cheese is also banned over here in the UK and the EU
Haggis was originally created as a food by poor Scottish farmers who were struggling to make a living, so they were forced to use every bit of animals that they could. So they used the offal minced it up and added oatmeal and spices to make it more palatable and stuffed it into a sheep's stomach for cooking (can be boiled, baked or fried - boiled is best for my taste). Little did they know they were actually creating one of the tastiest foodstuffs known to man. Knowing what goes into it puts a lot of people off, but believe me it tastes absolutely lovely. Basically a case of don't knock it until you've tried it. It's traditionally eaten along with mashed potatoes and swede. Known as "Haggis, neeps and tatties" here in Scotland. I will say it can be bad for causing indigestion in some people though, especially if you eat too much or have alcohol and/or acidic drinks with it.
It's also very balanced nutritionally. Love it.
Not true. It predates farming when hunting was dominant and organ meats were prepared straight after the hunt to be eaten and preseved as highly nutritionally dense food. The world over Hunter-Gatherers use every part of the animal and there was rarely waste; Scotland was no different really. Look up The Good Scots Diet article by Westing Price Foundation and how such traditional and simple fare was responsible for the 'strapping' Highlander!
@@lindsaymckeown513 - That may be true about "nutritionally dense food" in general, but the dish we know today as haggis definitely originated from farmers in south-west Scotland in the 17th to 18th centuries. Anything similar around before that was not true haggis. Haggis has never been a traditionally highland dish. It's a traditionally southern Scottish dish - originating in Ayrshire.
@@bobsteele9581 Sorry, Bob, that is a misconception! Haggis as we know it today, accomapnied by neeps and tatties was obviously recorded by Burns in Address to a Haggis and would have been from his experiences in Ayrshire, for sure. However, there are Medieval, written references to haggis with both Old English and French spellings (which I can't recall!) so can't even be claimed to be Scottish. I did not connect it to the Highlands, but referenced you to the Highland diet and the importance of offal and it's nutritional profile rather than it being a meal of the poor forced into eating it. There is evidence across the whole of Northern Europe and beyond of offal with grains etc being bundled and cooked within either the stomach linings or intestine casings of various animals.Haggis with neeps and tatties has become a Scottish national dish since the time of Burns due to his ode but I can't recall how important the accompianment of the veg and tuber were before the work and acclaim of Burns. Haggis by itself is highly unlikmely to be of singular Scottish etymology at all in the same way that the various traditional use of rendered fat, and urine for softening animal skins can be.
@@lindsaymckeown513 - Yes I know the references your referring to and you are certainly correct about that, and they were certainly part of the evolution of the modern dish, but they were almost certainly not referring to haggis in the modern sense. There was no fixed recipe for the mix of meats oatmeal and spices (particularly the specific mix of spices that give modern haggis it's flavour) until the 17th Century (possibly the 16th at a push), and that was certainly developed in south-west Scotland.
Anyway regardless of it's history - the main point is - it tastes great 😁👍
Haggis containing liver, lung and heart is about using every part of the animal and not wasting any.
In olden times especially, every part of the animal is used, be it food, clothing, glue, whatever.
Plenty of american food has heart and liver in it, they just dont mention it in the ingredients and call it "beef"
'Pasteurised' has nothing to do with a pasture - it's a process of heat treatment to kill bacteria/pathogens named after Louis Pasteur.
JT's mind works in mysterious ways. Unpasteurized milk = milk from a cow that grew up in the ghetto. I never would have even thought of that.
How is this titled 'British foods that are banned in the US' when only one of the foods mentioned was British?
Yeah agree
I was born in The UK and grew up here. In my 63 years have never eaten Haggis or Caviar. And guess what, I hate tea. Much of the things that the media say about what people eat are exaggerated or are myths. Can’t beat a good Cornish pasty though.
I haven't eaten anything on this video. To be honest watching this makes me very thankful to be a vegetarian, almost a vegan as I only eat cheese, everything else is plant based.
@@carlruss4821 Haggis is yummy AF to be fair, if you ever go to a Burns night party they'll likely be serving that. With Neeps and Tatties!
@@shelleyjackson8793 Well I hope you eat 'Vegetarian Friendly' cheese (i.e. cheese that doesn't use natural rennet,) otherwise you're not even a vegetarian!
The magot cheese is also banned in the uk. the only dish in this vid that is British was Haggis.
Haggis is Scottish not British
@@JulesLumley yee i know i was putting it the context of the video as the video stated British.
@@JulesLumleyScotts are British so, technically haggis is indeed British. Not that I want to take credit/ be accociated for/with that monstrosity.
@lfcmike12 if I said to my m8 (who is Scottish) that he is British, World War 3 would kick off.
@@JulesLumley Well he's not very smart then lol regardless of how he feels about it, British = English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish along with the channel islands. Ain't even up for debate, that's just a matter of fact lol
If you think the rotten maggoty cheese is bad, look up Swedish Surströmming
I'd still pick the surströmming over the maggot cheese
Open the tin and take a deep breath
@@101steel4 I've seen even cats refuse it lol
For those who don't know, Surströmmimg is fermented herring. As in rotten. There are lots of videos on YT of folk attempting to eat it.
The results will make you split your sides laughing.
@@cogboy302 I've also seen natives annoying it. It's like the century egg.. if its not eaten with the right complements to balance the fermentation its gonna taste rank. Sustroming is usually eaten on flat breads with pickled sourcroaut (probably spelt that wrong)
Beluga caviar. So disgusting that Americans couldn’t stop eating it, causing the over fishing that resulted in the ban. Clearly not disgusting is it. Also, there’s nothing offensive about haggis. I guarantee a lot worse goes into cheap sausages and hot dogs.
Haggis is very tasty, with mashed potatoes and mashed turnip, followed by a wee dram. Delicious !!!
Brits don't eat maggot cheese. Some places in Italy eat maggot cheese.
I'm pretty sure Haggis is made in a synthetic casing now days,It traditionally used to be made in a sheep's stomach , im sure sausages used to be made in an intestines but are also made in a synthetic casing now ?
The store bought ones are, but butchers use intestines.
Depends where you buy haggis from. Supermarkets, e.t.c tend to use synthetic casings, but most butchers stick with the traditional sheep's stomach as a casing.
Don't buy it from a supermarket. Go to a good butchers. It is 1000% better.
Haggis is delicious! Seriously don't knock it until you've tried it!
Yeah haggis is delicious, I am English born and Australian reared but I get to try it once a year due to our village's highland games YUM!
If you are going to eat an animal, it is respectful to be open to eating every part, and not leave what are actually the most nutritious parts to waste. Not only nutritious but quite tasty too. When my sons were little, I thought I would introduce Burn's Night as an experience as they had a Scottish grandmother. I didn't tell them too much about the haggis, but they ate it quite happily along with the neeps and tatties.
Haggis is bloody lovely, as is black pudding. You can have either or both of them sliced and fried as part of a fry-up for breakfast - black pudding is normal with a full English when haggis and Lorne (square) sausages are normal on a full Scottish breakfast, along with bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, fried bread, toast and anything else you want.
you forgot white pudding lol.
@@lupaswolfshead9971 I've seen that in Germany, but hardly ever here in the UK.
@@chrisperyagh Usual part of a Scottish Breakfast when i am in Glasgow. Or Lanarkshire. Usually a choice of black pudding or white pudding.
I’m a Scot… Don’t knock Haggis, till you’ve tried it! 😋😊
I'm English and I love haggis 😊
14:52 Wait until you find out about the french dish foie gras now that is barbaric
Fois gras is banned in California.
I love that Kinder Eggs are banned, but you can buy a gun at walmart. Land of the free 😅
But Kinder eggs are a choking hazard .. they need to keep the kids safe .. 🙃
@@joelthorpe4170
*choking ...
You can buy a gun at Walmart, but not without the same checks and regulations of buying it in a gun store, good grief. Try to just walk out with a shotgun in your shopping cart and you're in for disappointment.
@@Archris17 Doesn't change a fact that you can buy a gun at Walmart but Kinder Eggs are considered too dangerous for American folk 😉
Most dairy farms pasteurise their milk right after milking. Before it even hits the storage vat.
My paternal grand father always waited till his Stilton cheese had maggots crawling in it. The smell was awful. He lived without electric light in a 4 room cottage and had a single cold tap in his "kitchen". My grandparents raised 8 kids, 7 boys and a girl, in this small cottage in a farming village in rural Lincolnshire. He died at the age of 94. He'd been retired from work for just a year.
i eat Haggis every week. Its lush
I love haggis!! Especially Balmoral Chicken 😍
Agreed its delicious.
Nothing wrong with Haggis. I’m English and I love Haggis.
Oh by the way, I love braised Liver and Onions too.
Not a very British list! Haggis is good and they can be any size, Haggis was originally a way to use up every part of an animal and leaving no waste, but it's really tasty! You have to have it with mashed potato (tatties) and turnips (neeps), and I also like it served with whisky sauce.
4:33 Haggis is absolutely AMAZING. I eat Haggis of some description almost every day. 🏴❤️🏴
I eat it for breakfast twice a week and three times on burns night.
@arealscotsman I usually get a bacon/Haggis/egg roll. Or Haggis with sweet chilli sauce is epic 😍
@@Gavthelegend Bacon, haggis, Lorne sausage, white pudding, fruit pudding, tattie scone, mushrooms and a goose egg. But I'm a farmer and am always hungry after the morning milking.
@@arealscotsman no a fan of the fruit pudding, but the rest is a breakfast fit for a hungry Scotsman. 👍🏴
Only Haggis, which is really tasty, raw milk and kinder surprise are eaten in the UK. I have not heard of half of these foods. Haggis was developed in a time when people used every part of the animal, people could not afford waste. The huge one in the film was at a Burns Night supper, which is a holiday in Scotland. The Haggis is piped into the room, someone will read Robbie Burns poem "Ode to the Haggis", before it is cut into and shared. The outside casing is not eaten.
most pople forget that there are people around middle age who remember sheeps head stew, because thier grandparents still used every part of an animal, it wasnt banned until the BSE epidemic and finding it was probably based behind certain things being passed down in processed animal feeds made from bits of various animals, including brain and bones
Raw milk is now illegal to distribute in Scotland...grrr! This stems from an outbreak of something, can't remember what, which was actually proven to be from pasteurised milk. The Dairy industry was very powerful and wealthy back then and used this to constantly badger politicians, blackmail farmers, influence media, probably grease palms, to blame the raw milk sector by inference and repetition. You can still get it sent up from England or Wales, but the postage costs more than the milk which is expensive as it is. I grew up drinking milk from the cow.
Another British food item that is banned in the U.S that we Brits have for Breakfast is Black Pudding
Only food native to UK is haggis, which is wonderful, raw milk is readily available though, as are Kinder eggs (Italian?). definately with you on the rest JT - could not go near that cheese.
Thank god that cheese carnt be sold anywhere except sardinia 🤮
As an Englishman not a Scot, can confirm Haggis is great.
Is Beau OK? He looked like he was limping pretty badly on his back leg 😢
Yeh, back left leg really limping.
And please Anna and JT, for Beau's own good, please deal with the crown jewels and get him neutered
@@davem12dim17I'm glad someone else noticed. Poor wee sausage. I hope he's OK.
I also noticed poor Beau was limping
His name is Bo
Haggis is great! It’s like a cross between spicy sausage and stuffing
Many foods (such as Haggis, Black Pudding, Caviar, oysters and others) were originally eaten by peasants, or the poor, or during economic troubles. Rather than throwing the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, blood etc away, they were eaten to get nutritious, filling food when nothing else was available or affordable. Like many peasant foods they were initially disregarded by the middle and upper classes until much after the initial need was in the past. Just like many poor areas in cities that go from slums, to 'Artist Quarters' and then gentrified as time goes on.
Haggis (as an English woman who has travelled a lot) is delicious. Often bought now in plastic instead of a Sheep's stomach.
Only in supermarkets. The ones bought at the butchers still come in stomach.
Originally eaten by hunter gatherers where the internal organs were prized due their nutritionally dense profile. Only when trade brought more exotic foods and a network of nobles increasingly contolled the land and had serfs that it became looked down on as a 'poor' food.
I grew drinking untreated milk from a nearby dairy farm in the UK and never got ill from it. You can only sell it here if the herd is certified disease-free and examined regularly, but most farmers drink their own milk untreated anyway. The risk to adults is minimal so long as the cows are well cared-for.
Haggis sounds disgusting, but you'd be pleasantly surprised at the taste. I have had a couple when I've been in Edinburgh and it's delicious with mashed potato and gravy.
Never needed to bother with gravy, but mixed up in mash potatoes, it is a lot better eating, the haggis adds flavour, the mash adds a lot less itself in flavour but does cut the flavour of haggis to something your palette likes. Eating neat haggis would be like drinking neat hot sauce, mixing it with tatties is like eating hot sauce on chicken.
I love the vegetarian Haggis from Sainsbury’s I find the meat ones have too much pepper seasoning in them. Shouldn’t be a problem to import the veggie one into the US as it doesn’t have any offal in it. I have had very good Haggis in the USA made by a Scottish hotel chef on Burns Night in Norfolk Va.
Americans baulk at the concept of haggis but are perfectly fine eating Chitterlings 😂😂😂
I only tried haggis for the first time this year (my local butcher makes it in-house around Burns Night) and I loved it. It is like a very rich and savoury sausage; I have a good appetite, but when served with a creamy whiskey sauce and the traditional sides, it is incredibly filling - I suppose that was rather the point, though, making a small amount of food go a very long way! But it is truly delicious.
As for shark fin, you may have spotted a clip of Gordon Ramsay in the video - he made a fantastic documentary on the shark fin trade, well worth watching!
Lived in Scotland nearly all my life, over 40 years, love haggis. Never ever heard it called a pudding until this video. They seem to be confusing it with Black Pudding or White Pudding, which are also in casings a bit like haggis and have pudding in their names but other than those and Yorkshire Puddings, pudding means dessert in the UK.
Also never had one that came in a sheep's stomach. That's the traditional way but you don't typically see it in supermarkets. Maybe if you buy it from a traditional butcher but I have never done that.
Haggis is the great chieftain of the pudding race.
Robert Burns christened it that in his poem ` Address to a Haggis` and why we eat it on Burns night, and every other day of the year .
Here's the first verse.
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang ‘s my arm.
Its in Scots😁
As has already been mentioned: It's the "chieftain of the pudding race" and the word pudding is defined (in the OED,) as: "'A boiled, steamed or baked dish made with various sweet... or savoury ingredients added to the mixture"; Also, if you'd lived in Scotland for 40 years, you'll have experienced 'black pudding' and 'white pudding', so I find it hard to believe you'd never heard Haggis being classed as 'a pudding'!
I put haggís in my rabbit pies instead of force meat balls.
You would love Haggis JT! It is served across the board from the humble fish & chip shop to high end restaurants. Its rich, gamey & slightly spicy. Yes, it contains Offal (Sheeps Lung, known as "Pluck" is what is banned in the US). In the UK, farming standards are such, that all Offal is safe for human consumption & is actually very tasty when prepared correctly. The Haggis itself doesn't always come in a Sheep's stomach) only the most expensive brands or large ones for ceremonial banquets. In commercial settings it is encased either a vinyl or cellulose casing to help it steam when it cooks (You don't eat the outside casing regardless of what you get). As the video suggests, its normally served with Mashed Potatoes, Mashed Swede/Turnip/Carrots and a whisky based mustard & cream sauce. You could consider this dish as the national dish of Scotland and Edinburgh's most popular dish. We would normally have it more in the Winter months, due to its very rich hearty taste and specifically on St Andrews Day (30th November), A Hogmanay Banquet at New Year (31st December) & Burns Night (25th January). Its normally brought into banquet halls accompanied by a Bagpipes and an "Address To The Haggis" poem (Robert Burns) is recited as the Haggis is carved before serving by the Toast Master. Everyone also raises a toast to the Haggis as it is being sliced open for good luck and prosperity. When it comes to fast-food haggis - in Fish & Chip shops & curry houses. you will find it served as nuggets, slices and in pakora. You can also buy it as a pizza topping in some Scottish-Italian Pizza Restaurants & topping for Poutine (Canadian Dish)
The big haggis called a Chieftain. For Burns Night the day that celebrates Robert Burns, Scotlands nation poet or Bard. The ban in the USA made celebrating Burns Night harder in the White House, but previous administrations got around this by importing Chieftain Haggi under diplomatic bag via the Canadian embassy or that of other countries. There is a shop in Portobello, Scotland that is famous for making haggis and is the source of the Haggis consumed in the White House.
The shark fin thing is worse.. the dish is called Putrefied Shark Fin, part of its ban and status as a delicacy, but yuk
OMG, how did you get so old and not know about Louis Pasteur? I learn about milk pasteurization while I was at junior school. If you are wondering he was French.
I grew up on unpasteurised (raw) milk in Ireland. It's not homogenised, so if left to sit a while, it settles out with the cream on the top.
It's delicious.
My Mum also used to make me drink eggnogg as a teenager, to try put some weight on me. Pint of raw milk, two raw eggs mixed in, sugar & brandy. One every day. I wasn't complaining, as it had brandy in it.
It was my job to hear the milkman at 5 am so the birds didn't peck the lid and steal the cream!
Its called pasteurised because guy called Louis Pasteur was the guy that figured out the process.
Pretty hypocritical considering the chemicals and excessive sugar in nearly American foods and how many are banned in Europe.
I tried Haggis in Scotland never brave to try before I was pleasantly surprised it was nice 😊
Here in the north of england Haggis is quite rare for most of the year, (the canned variety is always available, but tastes disgusting.) I look forward to the times when one of my local supermarkets haa a large stock of Haggis, because I know that it isn't going to sell too well. All I have to do is bide my time for about a week, when the stores cut the price of all their remaining stock (usually lots!) then I can get all I need at a bargain price, and stock up my freezer!
@@DaveBartlett Agree I bought canned type it was horrible. Sainsburys sell fresh ones coming up to Burns night they are nice. Look like large sausages they are tasty do original and vegetarian
I found out in Thailand they feed cats coffee beans, and wait for them to come out the other end, and use them to make coffee.
Also in China they soak eggs in young boys urine.
They're not cats they're palm civets. They're often stolen from the wild and kept in tiny, filthy cages so it's a very cruel practice.
@onyxstewart9587 there are cruelty free farms now apparently, that's why they are allowed to sell in both europ and the EU
Civet cats.
Also if Reindeer eat a certain type of mushroom, the snow they leave yellow tinted becomes really "tasty"....
@@markhackett2302 That's f*****g disgusting...
@@markhackett2302 That's disgusting 🤮
Nice video thanx. I've had Haggis a couple of times, its really nice, it tastes like a slightly spicy minced meat. Like a lot of older foods, it was eaten by the poor who did not want to waste the offel, eg: lungs, liver and hearts, so found a way to use them.
I've not had Cavier, but I have had cod roe, (which are much smaller fish eggs), we often have them in the UK in Chip Shops, eg: a Cod Roe deep fried in batter and its very nice.
Shark fin soup? Nah mate, thats just rank!!! 8-)
14:47 I was taught that you place a napkin over your head, when eating ortolan, so you can hide your shame from the eyes of God. I was also taught something about the flavour that isn't mentioned. Other than the fatiness from being overfed, and the armagnac, another key element to the flavour... is your own blood. When you bite into the tiny bird, the bones shatter & lacerate the inside of your mouth while you're chewing. Tasting your own blood, along with the bird, is an important part of the dish.
EEEK!
Hello! I've lived in England my whole life and I just wanted to say , I've never had ANY of these except for the kinder surprise eggs and maybe the plum
You have got to try haggis JT, its like a nicely spiced sausage and it's so versatile. I love having a full Scottish breakfast, more even than a full English
Haggis is indeed delicious, but some are better than others. Usually in the form of a sausage cut into slices for traditional breakfasts. My recommendation to you is, before trying it, look for good reviews first. Haggis, neeps and tatties, (Haggis, turnip and mashed potatoes) with a whisky sauce is delicious, (or "fire" as you would say, lol) but do try the haggis on it's own, as you like spice, this peppery delight will go down well.
"neeps" in Scotland are known as turnips in the north of England, but are commonly known as 'swede'. 'Turnips' generally are the small green and white varieties, whereas 'nepes' are the larger orange fleshed (with purple skin) type known in the USA as rutabega.
I’ve never heard of Cayenne being put in Haggis. I’m pretty sure that it’s mainly ground pepper, ground coriander and mace.
I’m also pretty sure that it’s imported Haggis that’s banned and that you can get Haggis that’s been made in the US because it’s literally just the consumption of lung that’s banned.
Just think of it as a form of crumbly meatloaf that has been made with some spices. As that’s what the texture is reminiscent of. I’ve not had the meat version since some time in the 80’s when I was young as I became a vegetarian in that decade as a teenager but I will tell you that vegetarian Haggis is great and if you did get too nervous to try the meat version you can always try the vegetarian one first to get an idea of the flavour profile (only an idea, as the recipe will vary slightly from butcher to butcher). There are also many recipes available online, though don’t go for the one’s that contain cumin in the recipe as the flavour profile is all wrong. But it might be an idea for you to try and make a vegetarian Haggis for Burns Night (January 25th) next year as Haggis is what is traditionally served at a Burns Supper. You might also enjoy the traditional Scottish New Years meal of Steak Pie (sometimes containing sausages too) served with mashed potato and vegetables.
I thought the same white pepper not cayenne
If you can eat a hotdog, you can eat anything
You turn your nose up at Haggis ? have a look at whats in your hot dogs lol Meat from an animal's head, feet, liver, fatty tissue, lower-grade muscle, blood, and MORE can be included in what is described as “meat trimmings,” or the primary source of meat for hot dogs
English person here. Dont recognise any of this horrific stuff.
You have such a good attitude about things that makes your reactions so enjoyable to watch. Being from the UK this one is especially fun
Lung is a big part of what gives haggis it's flavour... but yeah, it's no longer boiled in a sheep's stomach (at least not typically).
It's also variable in size... usually about the size of a softball, but some places make larger ones.
They are also insanely flavourful and yummy.
Believe me, haggis may look horrible to some but it's delicious.
Haggis is good. Its a way to use all the animal and when it was first made people had very little so nothing was thrown away.
If it’s banned in the uk means the world shouldn’t eat it and if people argue with me then what would you rather real food or American standards 😂
Uk has the best and longest history with virus and making many many many medicines to counter new threats daily , Uk is the go to for anything to do with safety with food and outbreaks like ebola
And yet we have countless examples of livestock diseases like Foot and mouth, mad cow disease, Salmonella, ecoli ...
@@garibaldi54 you are right as many rules in farming are bad and should be managed by actual farmers .
Also the wildlife situation and laws as example the badger which causes many problems for livestock but Yh I agree with you there mate 👍🏽
And Yh foot mouth disease true it takes time but also hard to combat but yes they cause many risk which scientists combat daily and now with Ai they are able to do research more accurately and a little by faster .
@@As.11.11 Farmers are the ones who set the rules as far as livestock goes, thats the problem they only care about maximizing their own profit which is why these issues occur. Modern farms are basically a breeding ground for zoonotic diseases. And pumping animals full of antibiotics poses a serious threat to humanity.
Also Badgers are responsible for like 9% of all cases of TB.
@@garibaldi54 right well you seemed very informed so thank you I learnt quite a bit but yes farmers do try profit which is how life goes sadly but it’s the ones who truly mean good who are the ones to support .
Thank you man and 9% good info I’ll deffo check it out !!!!!!
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@garibaldi54 This is not strictly true. Farming is risky and expensive. Rules are broken mainly out of desperation (farmers are also likely to commit suicide). Some large farm owned by conglomerates break rules for pure profit, while some small farms bend the rules to prevent losses, it is rarely to make massive profits. It might be that they want cash to mitigate risk in another season.
Regulation is less in more remote areas
Im english and i love haggis. People were pourer years ago so nothing went to waste i like braun which is pigs brain in jelly. The offal is the best part of the animal i.m.o
Only one British food on this list. American food is processed crap full of additives and preservatives. Have you eaten yoga matt recently the same chemical used in the production of yoga mats is put into your food as a preservative. You look in disgust at the ingredients of Haggis but you'll gladly eat a hotdog.
Don’t worry about what is in Haggis, it is good. You wouldn’t eat a hot hog if you knew what’s in it, but it still tastes good.
I think the title is a little misleading. Only one of these is actually British and that’s Haggis.
God know we don’t need more people seeing this video and further convincing themselves that our food is crap 😂
Haggis is Scottish, don’t insult us by putting the butchers apron next it on the thumbnail 👍
So what’s the name of the island you live on, it’s a geographical name not a country, also Scotland was a major player in the British empire owning most of the slave plantations in the Caribbean. The most popular name in Jamaica is Campbell. Most of the Protestant settler in northern island are from Scotland
The title of this video is misleading lol, glad most of these are not British
The US banned Beluga because it's primary source outside the USA is Russia. To be more accurate the Caspian Sea bordered by Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan.
If they were so protective of it why was the United States the 4th largest exporter of caviar in 2019
When people had less money to spend poor people would eat various parts of cattle ,sheep and pigs that were cheaper ,my father would eat parts of the animal I would never touch like Sheep's brains ,not unpleasant,pigs trotters, Ok ,you need to know to cook them ,this was .
@@trevorlsheppard7906 why do you think the Chinese eat bugs, when nothing's is left you eat what you have... It's now normal to eat them...
It's not choice, it's desperation that drives extreme food choices. You think eels, welks, cockles and muscles were a culinary choice in London?
The unpasteurised milk I had of a farmer we were staying at his farm was the best tasting milk I've ever had ,like the USA UK farmers can sell unpasteurised milk ,advice is not to consume if you're aged over 65 , pregnant ,young children and people whose immune system is compromised,like cancer patients ❤❤.
@@daveofyorkshire301 Can on one comprehend what is being said/written ,you need lessons in comprehension,that is exactly what Is exactly what I was saying,my father ate these cuts of meat because when he was young his family had little money,this would have been in the 19 20s /30 s in the great depression,he enjoyed them so he kept eating them . Happy Now ,go away and learn how to understand what's written.
@@trevorlsheppard7906 The Great Depression was the USA, the world is bigger than that. Germany collapsed due to the USA reneiging on promised WWI aid which crashed the Germany economy. But the Great Depression wasn't worldwide it was a US event.
Other than that the reason people start eating certain items is because it's the only thing available to them. In time it may become normalised like some of the weird delicacies out there.
Apart from that I have no idea what your post is about... Where's this "happy now" bit come from? Annoyed I replied or that you didn't want me too? Why this is an open forum and a thread I started...
My aunt lived in Florida and got an ackee trees in her garden. The ackee fruit are fresh when they are open and eaten for breakfast.
You can make Haggis without the Heart and Lungs. This is done by using the liver and other cheap offcuts of lamb or beef. It must always be equal portions of the meats. There are recipes online at Rampant Scotland.
The towel on the head (in case you haven't seen the referenced american dad episode) is to hide your shame from god as you eat the bird.
Caviar looks disgusting
Little fact for you. Most of the States in the USA do not allow to sell raw milk for human consumption. But they can sell it for animal consumption. As long as you say your buying it for your animals you can buy it and drink it yourself. It's how Homesteaders are getting around the law. I know people that do this lol raw milk is nice that's all I'm going to say lol
Rotten maggoty food is nature's way of saying, "hell no, don't eat this"!
Wont eat fish eggs but chicken eggs are fine ? I mean I'm with you but animal eggs are all eggs
Years ago I had Shark Fin Soup at a Chinese restaurant in Spain. Ethically I wouldn't eat it now (I didn't know better back then) but OMG it's absolutely delicious. Sort of like a mushroom soup with a hint of the sea (think fresh breezes on the ocean) and the texture of the fins was a little like mushroom too.
Haggis is great sliced on a burger. Works for black pudding too.
Tip for you if you try Haggis: mix it up a LOT with mashed potatoes. Then cut back to less mash with haggis as you prefer it. NEAT Haggis is, lets say, unfortunate. Myself it is nice mixed about half haggis and half neeps/tatties, but your mileage may vary. It is too spiced and "robust" if it isn't mixed up with at least some mash, but if you like your food more spicy, you might put less mash in the mix.
Haggis, is hard to get in UK outside of Scotland, except from butchers just before Burns night. When you visit, go to Edinburgh to try it.
Beluga caviar comes from Russia that is why its banned (since when has US cared about a spices), you can buy sturgeon spices (there are 28 Sp. several of which are critically endangered) at most shops that sell goldfish, for your pond here in UK
The thing about raw milk, it has a short shelf life, should really be used the same day, but many recipes (especially cheeses) need unpasteurized milk, yes it tastes different
why does abusing the animals we eat, seem like a deliberate world policy. "oh yes, lets keep it in such confined spaces, it cant move and never let it see the sky" i don't eat meat much
i am never going to Sardinia! named after sardines (which make me feel ill) with that attitude to cheese, i would not eat anything there
traditionally shark is good meat and feeds many people, the fin was the cheap cut (not good for anything but soup), because poor people and people with good money management, had nostalgia for it, the popularity rose (like frog legs in France)
You can buy Haggis in most supermarkets in the UK all the year around.
Haggis comes in lots of sizes. If 8ts a big event like Burn night youll likely see thrm bigger.
It comes from a time when not a lot of food or meat was available, so people used all parts of animals. Its usually a synthetic stomach lining now.
Haggis is amazing. I do have it often.
I LOVE Haggis, and I'm English! When I was a young apprentice back in the sixties I lived with a Scottish family, and they introduced me to Haggis, neeps and tatties, and I have been a great fan ever since. Delicious!
Ive been lucky enough to try real beluga caviar many years back at a champagne and caviar boutique for my 25th birthday, over all its ok.. but JT if you like salmon and trout - i recommend trying their roe (caviar/eggs what ever you wanna call them) salmon and trout eggs are orange and have that lovely creamy delicate salmon taste not strong at all, trout roe is the same but the eggs are slightly small.. then you have tobiko - the flying fish roe which are teeeny eggs, all are nice and i would pick them over beluga or even the cheap lump fish caviar you can get now in the super markets. Salmon and trout roe is still abit pricey per gram but way more affordable like 50g jar for around 30 uk pounds
These are actually foreign foods and some US foods banned in the US. Only one is from the UK.
I dont understand this video, as these arent things we eat in the UK barring haggis
I used to drink so much milk, just like you JT! I loved it. Grew up drinking it with meals too. Sadly, about 7 or 8 years ago I suddenly became lactose intolerant, so now I can't drink it at all. I can have dairy in small amounts with a lactase supplement, but drinking milk is out :(
Haggis is very nice with a bit of ground black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and some decent whisky poured onto it.
Hi JT, in that video they did not show *" IRELAND WHITE PUDDING "* it's almost like English black pudding or your know it as BLOOD PUDDING !!!
My Wife is Scottish & I've tried Haggis. I'll be honest I'm not a massive fan but I know plenty of people who love it.
Ackee fruit is delicious 😋 a Jamaican Café in our village in England. Sells a Saltfish and Ackee Wrap 🌯 I'd completely recommend trying it if you're ever in a position to.
Haggis is the national dish of Scotland. It is delicious. Favoured with sage herb. Tastes like sage and onion stuffing you get for Christmas.
I’m the same as you JT, if I thought too hard about what I eat, I wouldn’t eat it! I drew the line at haggis when I was in Scotland 😂😂
Your title is very wrong
Haggis is basically peasant food. Cuts that would otherwise be discarded. All regions of the UK have their local specialities. Haggis is very tastiest.
I had a friend when my kids were small. Her husband was a farmer and they fed uñpasteurised milk to their kids including a six month old baby. He went on to develop a dairy allergy and it made him very ill.
In olden times pudding meant food that was steamed or boiled in some sort of covering for example muslin, suet or animal intestine. It could be sweet or savoury. Homemade Steak and kidney pudding is encased in suet and steamed in a muslin bag. Various types of sponge pudding, like spotted dick, were steamed in a muslin bag. As time went on sweet puddings were consumed more than savoury puddings so, the UK, the word pudding is more used to describe the desert part of a meal.
A few years ago we started doing haggis lasagna. Absolutely gorgeous. Dunno if England do it as I don't need to go there since my divorce 😂
Haggis lasagne is delish, so are Haggis and steak pies. It makes a good substitute for minced beef in general, but even on its own its great😋
1 tip about cats JT, they DO NOT LIKE doors being closed. I have 4 cats and even if they are sleeping, if you close a door, they immediately want to go though it.
Yeah who's idea was it to make something out of the heart liver and lungs something we ate for hundreds of thousands of year's.
Yeah, it's called making full use of the animal. Something everyone but the richest used to do at all times. There's nothing wrong with them, it's just we have become so accustomed to only eating the 'best' cuts. Some dishes still use them, liver & onions, steak & kidney, etc. I'm assuming heart & lungs maybe don't have the nicest textures so are only used minced up like in haggis.
@@Orion3T Liver & Onions is one of my favourite meals. I also love Lambs hearts roasted as well. Like you say, in days gone by, people couldn't afford to waste anything.
I'm ok about eating any part of an animal, inside or out, from Ox Tongue to Pig's Trotters, I might decline something on terms of taste, flavour or texture, but never for reasons of being squeamish. I will never eat tripe though - there I do draw the line. Not only is the taste and texture bloody awful, but it also smells so bad while cooking it, that it's impossible to develop an appetite for it!
@@DaveBartlettyummy ox tongue and ox liver are the best 👌
I am surprised that haggis has not been banned in England and Wales, it is discusting! I tried it once, never ever again and that was before I knew what it contained!
Caviar comes from virgin sturgeon
Virgin sturgeon's a very fine fish.
Virgin sturgeon need no urgin'
That's why caviar's such a rare dish.