History Main / HaggisIsHorrible

'''Rita''': A most delightful Scottish delicacy I'll kill to have more of.\\

* Peter Puppy's hatred of haggis is a RunningGag on the ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' series.

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If you must know, haggis basically tastes like a cross between a hamburger and a sausage. And yes, it really is ''delicious''. Laddie. Robert Burns[[note]]referred to, variously, as Scotland's favourite son, or "The Bard" - yes, equating him (at least poetically) with Shakespeare[[/note]] wrote a poem about it - [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Address_to_a_Haggis Address to a Haggis]] - that is read, in full, as the Haggis is presented during a Burns Night supper (which consists of Haggis, naturally enough, accompanied by the traditional Neeps and Tatties.[[note]]Swede and Potatoes[[/note]]

* There's one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' that has Johnny and the Loch Ness monster fighting over a sack of haggis Johnny bought. Johnny gets it in the end, but after hearing what's in it he decides against eating it. The trope as a whole is downplayed since Johnny is more of a manchild, the haggis isn't drawn with the classic [[EditorialSynaesthesia stink lines]], and he was enjoying it until he learned the truth.

* In ''[[Literature/AllianceUnion Downbelow Station]], one character knows nothing about haggis beyond that it's supposed to be terrifying and thinks that it's actually some sort of ancient Earth ''weapon'' until he's informed that it's really just a sausage (he'd mistaken a set of bagpipes for haggis).

* In the ''DuckDynasty'' episode where they visit Scotland, the meal at the end of the episode includes haggis. Even the Robertsons (who have grown up eating wild game of all sorts, and in a later episode eat nutria rat sausage) aren't sure about the haggis, but John Godwin decides to take a chance on it.

* Ramirez in ''Film/{{Highlander}}''. Connor [=MacLeod=] calls him a haggis, and he asks what it is. It's especially funny since Creator/SeanConnery, who plays Ramirez, is Scottish, and Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor, isn't.

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8928816/1/Food-for-Thought Food for Thought]]'', Dyson brings haggis to a potluck. No one is happy.

* In the DuckDynasty episode where they visit Scotland, the meal at the end of the episode includes haggis. Even the Robertsons (who have grown up eating wild game of all sorts, and in a later episode eat nutria rat sausage) aren't sure about the haggis, but John Godwin decides to take a chance on it.

If you must know, haggis basically tastes like a cross between a hamburger and a sausage. And yes, it really is ''delicious''. Laddie. Robert Burns[[note]]referred to, variously, as Scotland's favourite son, or "The Bard" - yes, equating him (at least poetically) with Shakespeare[[/note]] wrote a poem about it - [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Address_to_a_Haggis Address to a Haggis]] - that is read, in full, as the Haggis is presented during a Burns Night supper (which consists of Haggis, naturally enough, accompanied by the traditional Neeps and Tatties[[note]]Swede and Potatoes[[/note]].

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' "The Clan of the Duck" Tommy and Chuckie decide to [[WholesomeCrossdresser try wearing skirts]] and when they get taken to a culture festival at the park they are mistaken for kilts by a clan of Scotsbabies. The Scotsbabies give them haggis. But Tommy and Chuckie actually like it even when they get told it's made from "Sheep guts!"

* As demonstrated in the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLochNessMonster'', not even [[BigEater Shaggy]] [[UpToEleven and Scooby]] will touch haggis. This is from a dog with a palette for sandwiches taller than he is, and a man who eats what are essentially milkbones.

* Partially subverted in ''Series/HomeImprovement''. In one episode, Wilson prepares haggis for his date. It doesn't sound appetizing to Tim when he explains what it is, but his date seems to like it.

* Subverted in an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', where the main duo were willing, even eager to eat haggis with a Scotsman they meet. Unfortunately, the Scotsman gets angry because they didn't to put chutney in his.

* Inverted with the dwarves of Ironforge in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', who love the stuff. Of course, their accents do suggest that they're the fantasy equivalent of Scots.

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

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 your garden variety sausage can 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), so basically a modern, mass-produced haggis is a short, thick mutton sausage with entirely known ingredients. All of a sudden, haggis sounds ''more'' appealing than the bangers you get at the supermarket...

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

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-->'''Kenzi:''' I meant bring normal people food, that normal people eat.
-->'''Dyson:''' Normal people eat haggis.
-->'''Kenzi:''' Not here they don't.

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-->'''Ramirez:''' Haggis? What is haggis?
-->'''Macleod:''' Sheep's stomach, stuffed with meat and barley!
-->'''Ramirez:''' And... what do you do with it?
-->'''Macleod:''' Heh! You eat it!
-->'''Ramirez:''' (bridling) How revolting!
* ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' 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?"[[note]]Ironically, the original novels gave Bond Scottish ancestry, as a 2012 Bond flick, ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', explicitly acknowledged.[[/note]]

* In ''{{Film/Armageddon}}'', Max says this is his favorite dish.
-->''Heart, lungs, liver. You shove that all in a sheep's stomach, than you boil it. That'll put some hair on your ass!''
** The NASA doctor gets visibly queasy as he describes it.

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* Seen in the Creator/{{Pixar}} movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', where the triplets seem to find their haggis disgusting. However, their mother Elinor eats it without a fuss and asks her children to at least try it, so it's not that the haggis is horrible but the triplets are {{Picky Eater}}s.
* As demonstrated in the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLochNessMonster'', not even [[BigEater Shaggy]] [[UpToEleven and Scooby]] will touch haggis. This is from a dog with a palette for sandwiches taller than he is, and a man who eats what are essentially milkbones.

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* ''Series/GoodEats'': In an episode devoted to oatmeal, Alton Brown demonstrates how to make haggis, dressed like a fourth-string extra on ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', hacking up entrails with a sword and punctuating his instructions with [[ViolentGlaswegian "...or I'll give ye the back o' my hand!"]]
** In an interview, Alton said that haggis was the only food that he has prepared on his show that he would never actually eat.

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* In one ''Oor Wullie'' strip in the ''Scottish Sunday Post'', Wullie is sent to the butcher to get a haggis for Burns Night, despite insisting he'd rather have mince'n'tatties. He persuades the butcher to give him mince in a haggis skin instead.
* Shows up in ShermansLagoon, when the Loch Ness monster visits.
-->'''Sherman:''' What's that?
-->'''Monster:''' Haggis! Sheep's insides stuffed in a sheep stomach, soaked in whisky and boiled to a rubbery lump.
-->'''Sherman:''' Sort of like a football?
-->'''Monster: '''Aye, but this one's for eating.

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* In ''PocketPrincesses'', while [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Merida]] is proud of haggis, [[Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Tiana]] is [[http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/67070767454/pocket-princesses-82-haggis-please-reblog-dont a lot more dubious about cooking pudding that includes stuff like sheep's lungs]].

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* Used in an episode of ''TheWeekenders,'' where Lor tries to get her friends to try haggis. Tino makes the mistake of asking what it is.
--> '''Lor:''' If I told you, you'd never eat it. Actually, you might not eat anything. Ever again.
--> '''Carver:''' [[SarcasmMode Yum.]]