What's for TEA?

[Pres Zount]

Originally Posted by Skye

fine, I will move my pancakes over here.

Don't feel bad. Yuu can start again if you like.

Holding up threads is tiring. I'm better suited for the 2-3 posts kind of thread. Your pancakes look very nice, well done.

[Randetica]

stfu everyone knows you love your tea thread!

[na§tee]

so, a couple of weeks ago i had my own personal burns supper with a vegetarian haggis. burns supper, if you don't know, is where lots of scottish people get together to celebrate the poetry of robert burns, eat haggis, drink whisky and generally get really pissed to go scottish dancing.

i did that, minus the whisky and dancing and, you know, people.

i got a vegetarian haggis because a normal haggis is eugh - sheep's stomach stuffed with sheep innards, vegetables, suet, oatmeal etc etc. the veggie one just excludes the sheep heart and liver and what not. blaaah! it's sort of like.. spicy vegetable-y porridge. but.. nicer. you can't really do it justice.

here is the haggis. on the left:


you are meant to 'toast' the haggis at your party. someone has to know this poem. for integrity's sake (if not for the fact i failed to do it at my own burns supper), here it is. i am bored:

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o need,
While thro your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An cut you up wi ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
The auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
'Bethankit' hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi perfect sconner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit:
Thro bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll make it whissle;
An legs an arms, an heads will sned,
Like taps o thrissle.

Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies:
But, if ye wish her gratefu prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!

here is the unboiled haggis:


and here is the finished haggis with mashed potato and peas. you are meant to have it with turnip/swede but turnip is the FOOD OF THE DEVIL so i replaced it with peas:


have with a wee bit o'gravy if you want.
you are meant to have a "toast to the lassies" too but i had no men to toast me

[Pres Zount]

That looks like what I had for my dinner between around 1987-2004. Is your poem about stabbing french people during the war?

Also, can you eat the haggis raw? It looks like a tasty snack in that skin.

[na§tee]

hey man, it doesn't look sexy but it tastes GOOD! i promise.

i wish the poem was about stabbing french people but it really is just robert burns saying how lovely haggis is. a translation is here. actually, the translation sort of makes it more confusing

you could eat it uncooked, but then again who wants to eat cold porridge?

[Otis Driftwood]

[Dorothy Wood]

ramen, broccolis, meatballs, sharp cheddar cheese, red wine vinegar, lousiana hot sauce, parmeseans

[Pres Zount]

Hahahahaha. That is wonderful. Has anyone here ever eaten a baby before?

Skye, soon you will see pictures here of your donut burger. I promise.

[Lyman Zerga]

haha poor baby

[zippo]

today is april 21st and i give thanks for this thread

[ggirlballa]

tunnaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

[zippo]

you said "fuck the diet" and stuck your salad between two pieces of bread, right?

in other news: volume is so important for when making a sandwich look more appetizing, looks good