Reply to: PM FAO of all Scottish members

[MicrosoftBob]

I try and celebrate most things that involve food and alcohol, Burns Night done Chinese New Year next

[vetran]

How exactly did YouTube deliver a haggis?

they subbed it out to Google it came on a Tartan Quadcopter!

[d000hg]

Burns night jobbed.

Piped in the Haggis, courtesy of youtube.
Read the address, again courtesy of youtube.

Stuck the blade in the haggis at the appropriate point.

How exactly did YouTube deliver a haggis?

[Doggy Styles]

We dined on haggis at the Red Lion in Dagnall tonight. We had the prayer of thanks, and the poem. The poem is a bit long and a touch incomprehendible, so the Scottish chap cut three verses out of it, but he still made it as dramatic as only a Jock can do and received a raucus round of applause once we realised he had finished.

We had a great evening, until I told a lady on the next table the joke about the dog called Porky. I got a slap, so thought it probably best I paid my bill, bid my farewells, and went home.

[greenlake]

That's traditional, but I prefer the American version as the shortest Grace ever:

Good food, good meat;
Good God, Let's eat!

[suityou01]

Burns night jobbed.

Piped in the Haggis, courtesy of youtube.
Read the address, again courtesy of youtube.

Stuck the blade in the haggis at the appropriate point.

Then during dinner explained what a Haggis is, the 4/6 legged variety, shorter legs on one side, clockwise and counter clockwise Haggis etc etc.

Children looked horrified they'd eaten something so cute and defenceless.

Then, when the pickings were rich, I told them what Haggis ACTUALLY is.

3 green faced unamused kids sat at my table, now tucking into the beef and onion pie option we had on standby.

[stek]

If u'd lived in Scotland as I have u'd know the actual proper haggis is pretty disgusting, being a sheep's stomach with intestines stuffed in it with other offal.

The off the shelf haggis is not the same, in Scotland or not...

[darmstadt]

A Scots (Picts) couple out on the town:

[barrydidit]

I heard snares are better than shooting for haggi. Bait them with blueberries.

Nonsense. Snares are a long term option totally unsuited to haggis season which we all know only lasts one day. If you were to eat one outside the official season it'd taste like a sheep innards, apparently.

[d000hg]

You should go out and shoot your own. Supermarket haggis indeed

I heard snares are better than shooting for haggi. Bait them with blueberries.

[TestMangler]

You should go out and shoot your own. Supermarket haggis indeed

[suityou01]

Well nobody can accuse you of over planning this time

I know I'm such a tit. In my defence I've been stuck in Jersey all week bored out of my brains counting the hours so I kind of lock in to self brain preservation. A lot like screensaver mode.

[barrydidit]

Went to Asda for a couple of haggii. None in. Empty corner of a shelf where they could only fit in 6 at best. Apparently they don't sell well, even on Burns night. Better to not order any in extra for burns night and piss off the punters.

Of course if you want Polish or Latvian food the worlds your oyster.

Local butcher bailed me out with a brace of frozen haggii. Now they are like solid lumps of ice. It says defrost thoroughly before steaming. How?

Well nobody can accuse you of over planning this time

[suityou01]

Went to Asda for a couple of haggii. None in. Empty corner of a shelf where they could only fit in 6 at best. Apparently they don't sell well, even on Burns night. Better to not order any in extra for burns night and piss off the punters.

Of course if you want Polish or Latvian food the worlds your oyster.

Local butcher bailed me out with a brace of frozen haggii. Now they are like solid lumps of ice. It says defrost thoroughly before steaming. How?

[expat]

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.

That's traditional, but I prefer the American version as the shortest Grace ever:

Good food, good meat;
Good God, Let's eat!