How did haggis get its name?

Answer 1

The origins of Haggis lie in the peasant economy and its need to utilise as much of a slaughtered animal as possible and to extend the life of the food for a little longer. Haggis is made of the lungs, liver and heart of the sheep. Liver is particularly perishable (leave a liver at room temperature and it soon starts to digest itself, a process known as autolysis). In haggis the chopped offal is mixed with oatmeal and fat and packed into the cleaned stomach of a sheep. It is then boiled. The boiling kills off bacteria that would otherwise cause decomposition of the offal and destroys the enzymes responsible for autolysis and so enables the product to be conserved for a little longer than would be the case for unprocessed offal. This is the reason behind the creation of what the Scottish poet Robert Burns called "great chieftain of the pudding race".

Answer 2

There is no record of who invented haggis