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In fiction, haggis is often viewed as disgusting, in which case no characters will eat or touch it. Sometimes they might first ask what’s in it, and look dismayed at the answer. Other times they might begin to eat it and spit it across the room in disgust. Whatever the reason, it never seems like anybody wants to eat his haggis. In fact, the United States FDA has banned traditional haggis from sale and import, as it includes livestock lung which is not considered "edible."

Sometimes, a non-Scottish character might eat his haggis and like it. Then he might ask what's in it, and be revolted by the answer. This is combined with IAteWhat.

In reality, because the ingredients are ground up before being stuffed into the stomach, haggis is essentially a large mutton sausage with an unusually thick casing--remember that most "normal" sausages contain some disgusting-sounding offal, and they ''[[MysteryMeat don't]]'' generally tell you what it is. Moreover, modern store-bought haggis (i.e. most haggis) is made with a standard manufactured sausage casing (like you'd find on pretty much any mass-market British sausage).

* Shows up in SidneysLagoon, when the Loch Ness monster visits.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has a conversation between ''Normandy'' crewmen [[ThoseTwoGuys Gabby Daniels and Ken Donnelly]] on this subject if Shepard buys equipment and ingredients for ''Normandy's'' galley. Donnelly, true Scotsman that he is, apparently quite likes it.

Haggis is a Scottish dish prepared using a sheep stomach, oatmeal, suet, and some crazy things that you might not think would go well together in a dish.

->'''Gabriella Daniels:''' "Haggis always tastes like ass anyway."

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', when the ThreeAmigos go to Nick's deathday party, there is a bunch of rotten food, and it includes haggis.
** Though, all of the food is rotten, and none of the three wants to eat any of it.

* On a champions-return episode of ''{{Chopped}}'', the only contestants who aren't repulsed to see canned haggis in their ingredient baskets are a fellow whose mother'd cooked Scottish dishes at home, and a French-born chef who doesn't even know what it is.

In fiction, haggis is often viewed as disgusting, in which case no characters will eat or touch it. Sometimes they might first ask what’s in it, and look dismayed at the answer. Other times they might begin to eat it and spit it across the room in disgust. Whatever the reason, it never seems like anybody wants to eat his haggis.

In reality, because the ingredients are ground up before being stuffed into the stomach, haggis is essentially a large mutton sausage with an unusually thick casing--remember that most "normal" sausages contain some disgusting-sounding offal, and they ''[[MysteryMeat don't]]'' generally tell you what it is. Moreover, modern store-bought haggis (i.e. most haggis) is made with a standard manufactured sausage casing (like you'd find on pretty much any British sausage).

In reality, because the ingredients are ground up before being stuffed into the stomach, haggis is essentially a large mutton sausage with an unusually thick casing--remember that most "normal" sausages contain some disgusting-sounding offal, and they ''[[MysteryMeat don't]]'' generally tell you what it is.

* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' fanfic ''FanFic/EightMercenariesAndAToddler'', where the Medic says that the entire team got food poisoning from it. It was just to buy some ceasefire time.

* Subverted in the TeamFortress2 fanfic ''EightMercenariesAndAToddler'', where the Medic says that the entire team got food poisoning from it. It was just to buy some ceasefire time.

* Ramirez in ''{{Highlander}}''. Connor calls him a haggis, and he asks what it is. When Connor tells him...

* The 1967 ''CasinoRoyale'' has Sir James Bond at M's wake - the enemy agent posing as his widow details the preparation of the haggis traditionally made for the occasion; James incredulously gulps "and...''eat'' it?"

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Haggis is a Scottish dish prepared using a sheep stomach, oatmeal, suet, and some crazy things that you might not think would go good together in a dish.

In fiction, haggis is often viewed as disgusting, in which case no characters will eat or touch it. Sometimes they might ask what’s in it first, and look dismayed at the answer. Other times they might begin to eat it and spit it across the room in disgust. Whatever the reason, it never seems like anybody wants to eat their haggis.

Sometimes, a character might eat their haggis and like it. Then they might ask what't in it, and be revolted by the answer. This is combined with IAteWhat.
A SubTrope of ForeignQueasine. Compare StockYuck. Not to be confused with ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible.

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** Though, all of the food is rotten, and none of the three want to eat any of it.

* In a [[RunningGag Recurring Sketch]] on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' Mike Myers plays the proprietor of a "All Things Scottish" store in NewYorkCity. His CatchPhrase is "If it’s not Scottish it's crap!" But not even ''he'' likes haggis.

* VideoGame/MassEffect2 has a conversation between ''Normandy'' crewmen [[ThoseTwoGuys Gabby Daniels and Ken Donnelly]] on this subject if Shepard buys equipment and ingredients for ''Normandy's'' galley. Donnelly, true Scotsman that he is, apparently quite likes it.

* In WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Groundskeeper Willie tries to sell Haggis at the school fair and makes the mistake of describing the ingredients and saying "Tastes as good as it sounds"

-->'''Gabriella Daniels:''' "Haggis always tastes like ass anyway."
-->'''Kenneth Donnelly:''' "Aye, but in the right hands it can taste like mighty fine ass."\\
-- VideoGame/MassEffect2

* In a RecurringSketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' Mike Myers plays the proprietor of a "All Things Scottish" store in NewYorkCity. His CatchPhrase is "If it’s not Scottish it's crap!" But not even ''he'' likes haggis.

-->'''Gabriella Daniels:''' "Haggis always tastes like ass anyway."\\
'''Kenneth Donnelly:''' "Aye, but in the right hands it can taste like mighty fine ass."\\