January can be bleak so I threw a Robbie Burns party for the family
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“It’s like a giant sausage,” I say by way of introduction.
They are pumped to see what they take to be a five-pound hot dog. The haggis is a mixture of “lamb offal” (that is to say, organs like kidney, heart and liver, but not lung,which is illegal to eat in Canada), oatmeal, onions and spices all stuffed into a sheep’s stomach.
The haggis is basically the guest of honour at a Burns Supper and as such is “piped in” just like the guests and takes up its position at the head of the table. Then I speak to it, reciting Burns’ famous Address to a Haggis.
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