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I've never been able to pin down exactly what the connection is, but Haggis is a traditional delicacy in Sweden, too! Pronunciation is as near as makes no difference identical, I THINK it's spelt "hakkiss" and the ingredients are identical.
Reasons for eating it? Exactly the same - but in Sweden you'd drink a [3cl] glass of Akvavit (snapps) with every mouthful rather than Whisky !!!!

Bagheera, I have to say that this is news to me. It may be that I'm from the wrong part of Sweden, but I have never in my life heard that we have a dish resembling Haggis. The closest I can think of is our "isterband" which is a sausage with Barley wheat and then the regular sausage filling that can consist of pretty much anything that's left from the productions of other meat products.

But as I said, I have never heard that there'd be anything resembling Haggis and that would be called 'Hakkiss' or even resembling that.

May I enquire where you got your information from?

Hi, Lost in Scotland!
My wife (Dreamweaver) comes from Värmland and I have had this served several times by ma-in-law when visiting.
Mormor is an excellent cook and also active member of a number of trad. craft groups etc. When I was told that this dish (which I have also seen prepacked in the frozen goods sections of ICA & KANON) was considered just as much Swedish as Scotish I had no reason to doubt it . . . . . . is someone taking the mick??

Hmmm.. Weird.. I've never seen it where I come from. Which is Småland, you know, a bit further south, and on the east coast. But I'm not going to argue, just for the sake of arguing.

Thanks, Lost in England!
Is it possible this is a local rather than national thing?
I remember on one of my first visits bneing shown an old
book of Värmland recipes
On one of the very first pages, it began "First, shoot your elk . . "
In the area around Filipstad, hunting is good. If you know how to shoot & butcher, elk, venison, etc are not luxury goods but actually cheaper than e.g. imported pork or beef.

Moose meat is pretty cheap if you hunt it yourself. Then it only costs as much as the bullets you use.
There are a lot of nice old Swedish recipes that has a bunch of weird starts "shoot your mose" being one of them.