Vegetarian haggis?

Haggis.  A Scottish delicacy.  And also the innards of an animal.  To vegetarians, haggis seems even more off-putting than other types of meat and did not leave us optimistic about our eating prospects when visiting Edinburgh.

We were both surprised and unconvinced our first night out to see "vegetarian haggis" on the menu.  How could that even be possible?  But, we were assured it was completely vegetarian and absolutely delicious and so we pushed aside our cynicism and ordered it.

A bit like sheppard's pie in a coq-au-vin wine sauce, vegetarian haggis was absolutely delightful.  As we worked our way through it, we were a little disappointed that we had only ordered one to share.

Although vegetarian haggis takes slightly different forms depending on the restaurant (sometimes like a patty, sometimes wrapped on strudel etc.), we couldn't get enough of it and ate haggis every day during our visit.

The haggis now makes sense.  The Scottish kilt, however, is still a mystery...