Happy Burns Night

[Frogmogman]

An English doctor is being shown around a Scottish hospital. At the end of his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number of patients who show no obvious signs of injury. He goes to examine the first patient he sees, and the man proclaims:

"Fair fa' yer honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin' race!"

The English doctor, somewhat taken aback, goes to the next patient, and immediately the patient launches into:

"Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it."

This continues with the next patient:

"Wee sleekit cow'rin tim'rous beastie, O what a panic's in thy breastie!"

"Well," the English doctor mutters to his Scottish colleague, "I see you saved the psychiatric ward for the last."

"Oh no," the Scottish doctor corrected him, "this is the serious Burns unit

Best wishes to all of our Scottish friends. Hope you have a great evening despite the current circumstances.

Slainte mhath.

 

[Frogmogman]

Haggis in space

 

[RichardS]

It turns out that haggis is actually an English dish, invented in Lancashire and taken up by the Scots a hundred years later when they fell on hard times.

Richard

 

[Quandary]

It turns out that haggis is actually an English dish, invented in Lancashire and taken up by the Scots a hundred years later when they fell on hard times.

Richard

Aye, right!

 

[RichardS]

Aye, right!

I'm guessing that you didn't listen to Radio 4 this morning?

Richard

 

[Concerto]

The club secretary was visiting a fellow yachtsman in a brand new Scottish hospital, and asked about the place and things in general.

"The nurses are very good and so is the treatment" came the reply, "But the food gets a bit boring."

"What do you mean boring", asked the secretary ?

"Well we get "Haggis" for breakfast, "Haggis" for our lunch and then "Haggis" again for supper".

"Well what do you expect", says the secretary!

"THIS IS THE BURNS UNIT!"

 

[awol]

It turns out that haggis is actually an English dish, invented in Lancashire and taken up by the Scots a hundred years later when they fell on hard times.

Richard

I'm reporting that post as FAKE NEWS ! Given the choice 'tween Wiki and the BBC I much prefer the former's version "a haggis is a small Scottish animal with longer legs on one side, so that it can run around the steep hills of the Scottish highlands without falling over." As England has no hills worth mentioning, it is obviously Scottish.

 

[Telstar26]

And happy St Dwynwen's Day!

 

[Sandy]

It turns out that haggis is actually an English dish, invented in Lancashire and taken up by the Scots a hundred years later when they fell on hard times.

Who cares, potatoes are from the Americas. Remind us where turkey, that monster of a Christmas meal, comes from. Hint its not the middle east.

 

[wully1]

It turns out that haggis is actually an English dish, invented in Lancashire and taken up by the Scots a hundred years later when they fell on hard times.

Richard

As haggis is basically a sausage I'm sure the concept was around long before england or Scotland came into being..

Anyway- I've just had left over haggis nachos.... mmmmmmm who knew?

 

[Frogmogman]

As haggis is basically a sausage I'm sure the concept was around long before england or Scotland came into being..

Do you mean to tell me that it's not a little furry creature, with legs longer on one side than t'other ?

Haggis herd colonises Suffolk, ravages crops

 

[RobbieW]

I'm reporting that post as FAKE NEWS ! Given the choice 'tween Wiki and the BBC I much prefer the former's version "a haggis is a small Scottish animal with longer legs on one side, so that it can run around the steep hills of the Scottish highlands without falling over." As England has no hills worth mentioning, it is obviously Scottish.

Not only that but golf is simply a stylised form of hunting the haggis developed when the haggis were out of season

 

[wully1]

Do you mean to tell me that it's not a little furry creature, with legs longer on one side than t'other ?

Haggis herd colonises Suffolk, ravages crops

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news - as for Santa...

 

[Frogmogman]

Although the French find the whole concept of "La panse de brebis farcie" (what they call Haggis) hilarious, I have yet to find a frenchman who has tried it, not enjoy it. I have been known to make my own haggis, using my old Granny's recipe. I'm all in favour of a good whisky sauce to accompany it.

When we lived down in rural SW France, my elderly neighbour (a local farmer) called by as I was working in my kitchen garden. After studying what I had planted, he enquired if I was getting a pig. I told him I wasn't, so he asked why on earth I had planted swedes, parsnips & jerusalem artichokes. When I told him we like to eat them he couldn't believe it, saying that they only grow those things to feed pigs; "we only eat that stuff ourselves here when the Germans have invaded"

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Eating it was never unknown in England.

I've just polished off the remains of one with clapshot, and my son had bought a few more for the fridge "in case I forgot to get one"

I toasted Rabbie in beer not whisky, but I did insist on reading the address to a Haggis, to my prospective DIL