goodie packet from Scottish Gourmet arrived today

[winterbadger]

Salmon: Check
Cheeses: Check
Oatcakes: Check
Grouse: Check
HAGGIS?: Check
Dundee Cake: Check
Irn Bru (for the morning after): check

Hit the shops for neeps (both kinds) and tatties. Made sure there was a drop of the creature in the house.

Saltire? Check.

All is in readiness. Roll on, Sunday.

Comments

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Irn Bru = best hangover cure ever.

[shy-kat.livejournal.com]

We should be able to make it, at least for a bit! (Mom will be gone but I'll be in serious need of alone time!)

[winterbadger]

Huzzah! That's awfully nice of you--I know how important decompression is!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

What's the significance of Sunday? Seems a tad early for Burns Day.

[winterbadger]

Monday is St Andrew's Day, sort of like Scotland's 4th of July.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Ah! All is now clear.

[schizokitty.livejournal.com]

Haggis: so, is it actually edible, or do you just have to have it for the occasion, like a boar's head?

I ask this in all sincerity, as I used to be mortally revolted at the thought of "blood sausage," until I had some in Austria. It was wickedly delicious!

[winterbadger]

Myself, I think it's delicious. I know not everyone agrees, but IME most people who think it's awful have never actually tried it.

[ban-leodhasach.livejournal.com]

You're putting me to shame, I've not organised anything for Sunday yet!! Hopefully I shall be celebrating in true Scottish style though - with a hangover :-)

Enjoy your meal!

[winterbadger]

Thanks! I don't know why I decided to do StA's instead of Burns, just a whim.