Burns Supper

Robert Burns the Scottish poet was born on or around the 25th of January so in the UK it's popular to have a big celebration/supper on the 25th. The kids and I decided to celebrate and had a modified version for our purposes. We learned about suggested foods for a Burns Supper and ate what I made because it is not the time for me to go all out trying to figure out and make all these Scottish foods. 

And I definitely wasn't going to have us eat haggis. We did talk about "piping in the haggis," where a haggis is paraded in with bagpipe music. We put on some bagpipe music and paraded around ourselves. 

Notice Lucky's shirt is backwards because January 25 was also Opposite Day.

 

We talked about how after the haggis is brought in at a traditional Burns Supper, someone recites the Robert Burns poem, "Address tae the Haggis," with lots of gestures and enthusiasm. We watched a YouTube video of someone doing that and the kids thought it was both fun and disgusting with the squeezing out the innards of the haggis.

Another common part of a Burns Supper is a lot of toasts. So we put bread in our toaster oven and had "toast."

It was fun to learn something new and perhaps someday I'll try to make Scottish food. It's just not the season right now.

It happens in real life, too

I've seen it in the movies. I know it happens in real life, but I've never actually seen it before today. I had to drop off something to someone who lives across the street from the cemetary. As I was getting out of my car, I heard bagpipes. Someone was having a graveside service and had a bagpiper dressed in inappropriate attire playing for the service. Beautiful.

Oh, I've been around bagpipes before. I just mean I've never actually seen them at the cemetary before, in case there was any confusion.