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Happy Burns Night! Haggis dinner tonight. 🙂

Happy Chinese New Year, too!

On the same day this year.

Jetty 7 Jan 25
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I loved being Scottish until I went on Ancestry to find out that I'm Irish.

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I long ago committed to try some haggis. I have no idea where to try it.

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I am so impressed with the Scottish people to continue celebrating a poet. Where are the Goethe or the Schiller or the Brothers Grimm celebrations in Germany? It is so endearing to look at the celebrations and the special food.

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Last year I went to a do and we read the haggis poem. This year didn’t worry about celebrating , but my Scottish friend always does haggis (veggie from Marks & Spencer’s for me), neeps and tatties and then we drink scotch and chat all night 😊
Went to Chinese New Year 🧧 celebrations in the city, saw a dragon, gave red envelopes with coins in to my niece and nephews 😊 I cannot complain 🙂

@Jetty yes, it’s yummy too 😉

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Very interesting didn't know this since there are no Scottish butchers around won't be trying haggis though I would like to

bobwjr Level 10 Jan 26, 2020
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Interesting, always love to learn about other cultures. Not sure I could stomach the haggis ! LOL

Oh...it’s really tasty...you’d love it. It has to be made by a good butcher though!

@Marionville I used to love haggis. The best national dish I’ve ever eaten!

@Marionville I will take your word for it Marje, since I went vegetarian a year ago I’m not eating any meat. 😍

@Redheadedgammy I didn’t realise that.

@Marionville yeah, did it for health reasons and am doing a whole lot better.😘

@Redheadedgammy Glad to hear that. I don’t eat nearly as much red meat as I used to, but still enjoy it when I do,

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Thank you for promoting my culture! Rabbie Burns is our Scottish National Bard. Sadly, because I live in Northern Ireland I didn’t have haggis on my menu last night, no local butchers here make them. I did raise my glass of Talisker single malt whisky though, and toasted the Bard !

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I will be celebrating , "Chinese New Year , " at the Lucky Land , theme parl , this year , and plan to be in my dragon scooter , which is always fun .

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Isn't it the year of the rat again? I thought the rat was in the White House.

He’s a skunk!

@Jetty yes, the sheep isn’t what western culture regards as sheepish either 😉

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Checking out my Scottish roots (fully) is on my bucket list.

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A fairly accurate summary, but SCOTCH whisky please !!

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I have tried haggis and found it tasty. Not nice to look at but tasty.

I had heard of something called grits and I assumed that it may be similar to haggis so I tried it in a diner somewhere in California I think it was. It was disgusting. No tatste and a horrible texture. Never again.

@Moravian you have to put butter on it, that's why it exists, and the texture should be creamy.

@SenorRotten I thought so. I think I would prefer bacon to butter. It was obviously a poor diner.

Not just tasty....delicious! 😂

@Moravian Never heard of grits in Scotland. They are a Southern American dish, [en.m.wikipedia.org]
Haggis is mainly meat based, with oats and herbs I believe.

@girlwithsmiles Mostly offal (heart,lungs etc) with oatmeal and seasoning. The seasoning is important and the vegetarian version is quite tasty as well.

@Moravian yes, meat based, thanks! in a sheep stomach too isn’t it? My dad used to loved telling me that as a kid, and about other meat based British, ‘delicacies’, I was trying not to be like him!
Oh you mean grits are offal? Not according to the recipes I’ve found. I’ve looked them up a few times now, as Janet Evanovich talks about them in her Stephanie Plum novels too. Never heard of the offal part.

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Long live the Scottish Bard

“Good luck to you and your honest, plump face,
Great chieftain of the sausage race!”

Is that an Aussie translation ? 🙂. (Fair fa' your honest sonsy face)

@Moravian It is, me proper Scots is crap!

Not too bad a translation!

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Happy Burns night! Let's open the Macallan!

Will my Talisker do? Slainte Mhath! 🥃

@Marionville, but of course! 😀

I attended a burns supper last night and a dram was supplied along with the meal. There was much debate as to which whisky it was without seeing the bottle and it was only later that I saw that one of the sponsors of the evening was Tomatin distillery so I think that answered the question.
I think most whisky drinkers can differentiate between Speyside,Highland and the peaty Western Isles malts but to isolate the actual distillery is a bit more difficult

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