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Press coverage
Press and Journal 3rd October 2006
MARK PUTS SCOTTISH FARE ON OUTDOOR MENU
It is the most traditional fast food in Scotland - and now an innovative businessman believes he has found the ideal way to serve it up.
Oban man Mark Shaw, 39, of Tweeddale Street, claims he is the first outdoor seller of haggis, tatties and neeps in the country.
He is beginning his new venture by selling the delicacy, from a mobile hot food cart, at various festivals and events.
And if the idea takes off he hopes to expand the business, by establishing regular pitches in different Scottish towns next year.
Mr Shaw, who has received a business start-up grant of £3,500 from Argyll and the Islands Enterprise, said: "I don't sell hot dogs, or anything else - just haggis, tatties and neeps."
He claimed: "I am the first in Scotland doing this, so I have set up a website and registered my domain name, haggis-n-neeps.co.uk. I am also registered with VisitScotland and Eat Scotland."
Mr Shaw said he felt the Scots could sometimes be backward at promoting the country's assets.
Explaining how he got the idea to sell traditional Scottish food, he said: "I used to work and live abroad and I was sitting in a pub in France one day when a couple said - why don't you give us a wee Scottish party?
"I made haggis and neeps and 50 people turned up."
Editor's Comment
'Haggis takes to the road'
Fast food conjures up an image of fried burgers, chips and fizzy drinks packed together in one super-sized portion. It's the stuff of which heart attacks are made. But for one Scots entrepreneur, the country's national dish is the meal to go of the future.
Mark Shaw will hit the road with his mobile cart selling haggis, neeps and tatties - no hot dogs, no ketchup, just the strange mixture which does its cooking inside a sheep's stomach, served the traditional way.
To paraphrase the BBC comedian of yesteryear, Dick Emery: you are offal, but I like you.