Questionable Sports
Some people don’t like haggis at all, according to the girl on the checkout at Tesco on Burns night. They don’t tend to like the idea of eating the innards of an animal. I sort of agree with them, but I’ve never had a problem with any sort of food (apart from beansprouts, but that’s another story for another blog post) so the idea that something so delicious could be shunned do to squeamishness doesn’t wash with me at all.
Flavour aside, the way haggises are caught and prepared is a topic of much discussion in the United Kingdom, especially in Scotland. The haggises can be found throughout Scotland, but it is down to the talented haggis hunter to actually track, catch, and kill the haggis. The sport attracts courageous gentlemen from all over the United Kingdom and further afield. A large amount of haggis huntsmen are of Viking heritage and fly over from the Scandinavian countries in order to compete. There are a dozen or so main competitions, the largest of which pay out hundreds of thousands of British pounds to the person who catches the largest, meatiest haggis. Some less serious competitions are patronised by men on stag dos or team building exercises.
Like dwile flonking and rhubarb thrashing, there are critics who claim that the haggis hunt doesn’t exist anywhere outside the minds of a handful of drunks. Despite these ‘haters’, the haggis hunt swells in numbers every year (despite the Hunting Act). I would love to write more on the subject but I have a Mornington Crescent appointment at midday and need to catch my train.
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