Burns Night 2017: Who was Robert Burns and what is the best haggis recipe?

Telegraph ^ | 25 JANUARY 2017 | Rozina Sabur

[DUMBGRUNT]

Happy Birthday FRed!!!

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks!

[DUMBGRUNT]

Haggis was “born of necessity, as a way to utilize the least expensive cuts of meat and the innards as well.”
True!
But for Burns night, you get grain alcohol and rainwater to wash it down!

“Mandrake, water is the source of all life. ... Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol”?

[Hootowl]

There is no good haggis recipe.

[trisham]

My husband has it for breakfast every morning when he is in Scotland.

[trisham]

“Chlanna nan con thigibh a so’s gheibh sibh feoil”

[RatRipper]

I was right about Frost. He recited his poem called The Gift Outright at JFK's inauguration. I confirmed it with a search engine that yielded multiple hits.

[DUMBGRUNT]

My wife took a tour of the Highlands and noted it was available at most breakfasts.

She said it was OK, nothing special.

[trisham]

I’ve never tasted it, but it’s my understanding that it has a limited appeal.

[RooRoobird20]

Husband and I went to Scotland for 2 weeks last September. Haggis was on the menu everywhere, especially for breakfast. It looks worse than it smells and I can’t even imagine how bad it must taste.

Have you ever read a recipe for haggis? I have. It’s so disgusting, just reading the recipe makes me want to throw up LOL!

[Rastus]

Well, some say the world will end in Burns, some say in Frost.

[Rastus]

There’s a poet named Giulio Carcano. He may have been there at the end of the JFK presidency.

Too soon?

[DUMBGRUNT]

” I confirmed it with a search engine that yielded multiple hits. “

Everyone knows that search engines fake it!

And most agree it was Robert Louis Stevenson, a son of Edinburgh, that did the reading at JFK’s inaugural!

[mware]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGU7DiH8Clk

[DUMBGRUNT]

Have you ever read a recipe for hot dogs? I have.

Ralph Nader called them America’s deadliest missile.
He was right on that!
Do they still use the chain mills?

I passed on them for a while, then started again with kosher hot dogs... a slippery slope!

[RooRoobird20]

Have you ever read a recipe for hot dogs? I have.

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I don’t eat hot dogs because I’m afraid of what goes into them. :0)

[Windflier]

I wish I could translate that, but I gave up my Gaelic studies when the babies started coming. My wife just asked me the other day if we could take it back up again.

We may just.

[trisham]

lan Cameron War Cry: “Chlanna nan con thigibh a so’s gheibh sibh feoil”
(Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh.)

I hope that you do take it up again!

[trisham]

Clan Cameron War Cry: “Chlanna nan con thigibh a so’s gheibh sibh feoil” (Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh.) Sorry about that!

[tet68]

I wonder if Shakespeare had that in mind when
he wrote, “Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war...”

Certainly no “wee timorous beastie..”

I always loved going to burns night at the Burns House
here in Atlanta. It’s down off of Confederate Ave across
from the old DMV.