With Robert Burns night coming right up, I thought I’d have a go at memorizing his poem or maybe trying to acquire a haggis. There are few establishments nearby that have related events this weekend. The Celtic themed shop in Bethlehem, Donagal Square, has a tea shop in the back and they are hosting a whisky tasting. I think I’ll go there.
EZ
I don’t see any way that’s going to go wrong. Whiskey you say?
I’ll have a taste or 50.
Obligatory link to the poem
More haggis recipes than you can shake a stick at:
http://www.smart.net/~tak/haggis.html
Alton Brown’s recipe:
Whiskey? That’s several flavours of wrong right there.
/reminds self to shop for haggis tomorrow.
I once knew someone who claimed to have once found canned haggis. I had never before dared to google and see if it were true. Hang on.
Well, the first link is to a band called Canned Haggis. Not bad.
Safe so far.
Oh, no. It’s true.
The whiskey tasting sounds like a much better idea.
I’ve had it. It’s OK in a pinch.
It is, of course, “Address to a Haggis”, not “Ode”.
(A fact I only discovered last week.)
And in case you had looked at the recipe and asked yourself:
Is there such a thing as a haggis kit?
There is. You can order it on several different websites, but it usually comes from just one company.
It’s advertised as perfect for a Burns Supper.
When I was in Selkirk, the local butcher was selling haggis lasagne. Gag.
I’ve had haggis, in a cafeteria in Edinburgh. It didn’t inspire me to any poetry, though.
I had that canned haggis a few years ago. I even made a thread about it. It was pretty good. Of course having never had any other haggis, I don’t have any bar to measure it with. I also made my neeps and something else. It was a fine dinner.