HAGGIS

a national dish of Scotland. A haggis is actually a large spherical sausage made of the liver, heart, and lungs of a sheep, all chopped and mixed with beef or mutton suet and oatmeal and seasoned with onion, cayenne pepper, and other spices. The mixture is packed into a sheep's stomach and boiled. Haggis is usually accompanied by turnips and mashed potatoes; Scotch whisky is customarily drunk with it. Haggis is served on Burns Night (January 25, the birthday of the poet Robert Burns, who wrote Ode to a Haggis) and at the Scottish New Year's celebration Hogmanay, when it is ceremonially presented to the accompaniment of bagpipes.