Friday, January 25, 2008
Burns Night
Today (January 25) is poet Robert Burns' birthday, so it is the traditional day in Scotland to eat haggis. Prepackaged haggis can be bought in either the traditional meat variety, or a new vegetarian variety. Unfortunately though, there is a ban on importing real haggis to the US because of BSE concerns regarding the use of offal (or variety meat as we call it here) from the UK. I suppose somehow we will all have to learn to live with the disappointment of not eating boiled sheep lung stuffed into natural stomach casing. Mmmm, sounds tasty.
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It was also Virginia Woolf's birthday, in case you were wondering.
Yes, but does Virginia Woolf's birthday celebration traditionally involve getting rip-roaring drunk? That's what makes a birthday iconic.
Also, haggis is just an exceptionally bland sausage. I'm not saying it's not disgusting, I'm just saying it's no more disgusting than pretty much any other sausage. And it goes well with lots of drink, so that's good. No competing flavors there, no sir.
oh crumbs. I seem to have just posted as Leo's family. That was Beth up there. Sorry
"The Family" sounds intimidating, like the mafia is commenting on PTS's blog. I was inmpressed, until beth had to go and ruin the illusion. :(
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