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Beware of the Questing Haggis!
Scottish people have been risking life and limb for centuries to protect all humanity from the ravages of the predatory haggis. They accomplish this by performing the hazardous ritual known as 'Eat Your Haggis!'
Here are two recipes for haggis, in case you want to try your hand at saving all humanity.
This site offers recipes and pictures of an actual haggis, including one showing a properly chastised haggis being led into the ritual Chamber of the Eating of the Haggis by a piper in full regalia, and armed to the teeth with a splendid bagpipe.
The author suggests serving haggis hot with "champit tatties and bashit neeps."
I'll wager you didn't know that champit tatties and bashit neeps were a secret Scottish code for mashed/creamed potato and turnip/swede! I'm very impressed with these terms, and can't wait to introduce them into a conversation. I might, for instance, while discussing Jean-Paul Sartre's views on Louis L'Amour's Western novels, mention his failure to include champit tatties and bashit neeps in his biography of Flaubert.
Here is a picture of some bags of chocolate sheep. These are solid chocolate, not the wimpy, hollow kind that break up into little fragments, none of which are thick enough and dense enough to grow hair on your chest.
Actually, some people might not want to grow hair on their chests, but I believe you can select different options, using the handy checkboxes on the packaging.
Happy birthday to anyone who wants a birthday today.
Gadzooks!
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