# Obscure holidays you celebrate

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 25, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288 "2017-09-25T15:28:46Z")\
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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Robbie Burns Day.
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> It’s pretty popular around here.
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> Is it celebrated in the US?

I had never heard of it until I by chance saw it mentioned on Wikipedia a few years back, and almost everyone I mention it to has no idea what I’m talking about.

There’s _one_ restaurant I know of in Seattle that does a Burns Night celebration, and I’ve been to it every year since I found out about it. They don’t have a piper and you won’t see many kilts being worn, but they have a choir to sing and read Burns’ works and the chef makes several haggises from scratch, and there’s a local craft brewery that supplies a Scotch ale especially for the occasion.

Really, the only failing it has is that the chef insists on serving a rare lamp chop along with the haggis in the main course. Who in their right mind serves rare meat to a Scotsman? 🙂

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