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Title: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: eye30 on January 23, 2009, 18:33:01: Anyone having Haggis and Neeps on Sunday??
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: Lakes on January 23, 2009, 18:40:15: never tried that eye, what does it consist of m8? :)
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: eye30 on January 23, 2009, 18:45:08: Quote from: Lakes on January 23, 2009, 18:40:15
never tried that eye, what does it consist of m8? :)

Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish consisting of a mixture of the minced heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep or calf mixed with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings and boiled in the stomach of the slaughtered animal.

Most modern commercial haggis is prepared in a casing rather than an actual stomach. There are also meat-free recipes for vegetarians.

Haggis is traditionally served with "neeps and tatties" (Scots: swede, yellow turnip or rutabaga and potatoes, boiled and mashed separately) and a "dram" (i.e. a glass of Scotch whisky), especially as the main course of a Burns supper. However it is also often eaten with other accompaniments, or served with a Whisky-based sauce.

Check out following:
http://www.scottishhaggis.co.uk/
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: Shambles on January 23, 2009, 18:46:52: I'll probably just be having the whisky-based sauce... without the sauce
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: eye30 on January 23, 2009, 18:56:05: Quote from: Shambles on January 23, 2009, 18:46:52
I'll probably just be having the whisky-based sauce... without the sauce

At least you are entering into the SPIRIT of Burn's Night. :lol:
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: Shambles on January 23, 2009, 18:59:46: Quote from: eye30 on January 23, 2009, 18:33:01
Anyone having Haggis and Neeps on Sunday??

Are you?

Do you have a Scottish background by any chance?
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: Lakes on January 23, 2009, 19:22:27: we all sing Robbie Burns song here New Years Eve,so i better try and dish up Haggis, (sounds like something a vampire would eat :lol:) but i will always try anything once.
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: eye30 on January 23, 2009, 19:31:29: Quote from: Shambles on January 23, 2009, 18:59:46
Quote from: eye30 on January 23, 2009, 18:33:01
Anyone having Haggis and Neeps on Sunday??

Are you?

Do you have a Scottish background by any chance?

Like you only the liquid but no Haggis.
But will be having tatties and neeps with Sunday lunch, think it lamb this Sunday.

And yes half of me hails from across the border, Greenock area not far from Robert Burn's birth place although we never actually meet, him being alot older than me and frequenting different pubs but I believe my brother knew him:lol: :lol:, the other half Lancashire thro' and thro':lol:
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: Lakes on January 23, 2009, 20:05:03: can you tell me what neeps are?
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: Shambles on January 23, 2009, 20:15:49: Quote from: Lakes on January 23, 2009, 20:05:03
can you tell me what neeps are?

Disgusting vegetable. Turnip. Yuk
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: Dazzler on January 23, 2009, 21:00:15: None of that sounds very appetizing to me ... yuk.. :mad:
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: i30 Roolz on January 25, 2009, 08:14:07: Quote from: dazzling_darryl on January 23, 2009, 21:00:15
None of that sounds very appetizing to me ... yuk.. :mad:

I thought the whisky part was pretty good though... :wink:
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: bumpkin on January 25, 2009, 19:48:16: Well lads

I have just recovered from last nights Burns Supper.

We do the full thing which consists of lots of Burns poems with a few drams followed by seating at the table while the haggis gets paraded round the room following a bagpiper. We then recite "Ode to the Haggis" and it gets ripped open by the skean-dhu (the blade kept down the sock). We then perform the Selkirk Grace and proceed to eat the wondrous beast!

After the meal we toast the lassies and the lassies toast the laddies, then we get extremely drunk and dance Ceilidh dances until the wee sma' hoors.

It is a fantastic evening out and we usually do it on the closest Saturday to give ourselves the Sunday to recover!!
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: Shambles on January 25, 2009, 20:18:38: Bloody barbarians :lol:

Wish I'd been there :D
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: eye30 on January 26, 2009, 20:07:49: Great to see the tradition hasn't died.

Did you wear a kilt?
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: bumpkin on January 27, 2009, 08:43:47: Everybody wears tartan in some form or another, I always wear my kilt, some guys wear trews (tartan trousers) and the ladies usually wear a tartan skirt or dress, sometimes with a tartan plaid.
Title: Re: Rabbie Burns Night
Post by: eye30 on January 27, 2009, 18:50:47: Quote from: bumpkin on January 27, 2009, 08:43:47
I always wear my kilt

I suppose you have heard this one.

What's worn under a kilt?

Nothing. It's all in perfect working order :lol: