Today , HAGGIS , tops the Menu!

Winnipeg’s Scottish Community celebrates today! It’s Robbie Burns’ Birthday. A celebration of the famous Bards’ life. So famous that in 2009  , Burns was chosen the Greatest Scot by the Scottish public, beating William  “Braveheart” Wallace in a special TV poll.

The St. Andrws Society will gather at the Holiday Inn South , to hear the pipes , taste the Haggis and raise a glass in the poet’s honour. Hi-light of the banquet will be addressing The HAGGIS. Wikpedia , describes Haggis as a savoury pudding containing sheep’s pluck (heart, liver and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, traditionally encased in the animal’s stomach though now often in an artificial casing instead. Mmmmmm ?

Tonight’s full ritual involves whiskey, haggis and poetry readings. If you attend you’ll be piped in then hear The Selkirk Grace below….

“Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat they want it; But we hae meat and we can eat Sae let the Lord be thankit”. Happy Birthday Robbie! NOW let’s watch the Presentation of The Haggis !