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- From: colin@cwsoft.demon.co.uk (Colin Wilson)
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- Subject: Re: Robert Burns Dinners
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:37:07 +0000
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- In article <1993Jan14.161906.14212@st-andrews.ac.uk> rm4@st-andrews.ac.uk (Rosa
- Michaelson) writes:
- >That should be SUPPER not DINNER - we in Scotland call the evening spent
- >eating haggis, neaps, tatties, shortie and drinking loads of whiskey, and
- >listening to Burn's poetry, scottish music, and more whiskey toasts
- >BURN'S SUPPERS.
- >
-
- Although haggis, neeps and tatties (turnip/swede and potatoes) is now
- traditionally associated with Burns it is unlikely that Burns ever saw or
- tasted "neeps". The turnip or swede was only introduced into Scotland
- in the early 18th century. The Earl of Rothes was growing turnips around
- 1716, largely as a winter feed for cattle. The vegetable was still not
- widely eaten by people, even by the early 19th century.
-
- The "General View of Agriculture in Scotland (1793-1816)" referred to
- turnips as a field crop. It rated the value of the vegetable as a food
- for sheep or cattle but made little mention of its value as a food
- for people.
-
- Potatoes are also a "new" vegetable, though Burns would have been
- familiar with them.
-
- Burns was an obvious lover of haggis as witnessed by his poem
- "To a Haggis" where he calls it "Great chieftain o' the puddin' race!".
-
- Colin
-
-
- Whiskey! You mean whisky.
-
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