Cock up your beaver

[winjim]

Burns night tonight so cock up your beaver once again.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

 

[newfhouse]

We have the ingredients for this tonight.


https://www.theguardian.com/food/20...gan-recipe-for-haggis-kheema-and-tattie-rotis

 

[bruce1530]

The "Beaver", of course, refers to a gentleman's hat, and Burns is encouraging people to wear it at a jaunty angle. Of course. Allegedly.

However, Burns was no stranger to the "Bawdy Ballad". His collected works include "Nine Inch Will Please A Lady" and "Wha'll mow me now?".

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Good job this is not a US site or you might get severely reprimanded.

You've not seen 'Brendas Beaver Needs A Barber', then?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpZbphz82U&feature=emb_logo

 

[stephec]

Is this an early attempt at the thread title of the year award? 😄

 

[DRM]

According to Radio 4 today, a haggis is an English dish, first recipie was recorded in Lancashire, no mention of it in Scotland until around 200 years later after the highland clearances.
Bloody foreigners coming down here and nicking our food ideas

 

[Profpointy]

Burns night eh?

Best open the whisky - the question is Jura or Talisker...?

Surely you'll not be having just the one glass?

 

[winjim]

Cock up your beaver and happy Burns night again.

 

[stephec]

According to Radio 4 today, a haggis is an English dish, first recipie was recorded in Lancashire, no mention of it in Scotland until around 200 years later after the highland clearances.
Bloody foreigners coming down here and nicking our food ideas

They're welcome to it. 😂

 

[Cycleops]

Cock up your beaver. Particularly appropriate this year as they do seem to having a lot of trouble distinguishing between them.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

According to Radio 4 today, a haggis is an English dish

There may have been an English version as much as there will have been older versions from thousands of years ago in many other countries where herders farmed sheep and cattle and needed a way to conveniently and quickly avoid wasting any of the offal from their slaughtered animals. It’s unlikely we’ll ever know the true origin of it. However, the Scottish version has endured and been refined over the centuries to what is recognised now as the standard.

We had some last night but not our usual (McSween’s). Instead my wife bought one made by our local butcher which, although it was tasty, didn’t have the right spices, or oats, and had the wrong texture. There was nothing actually wrong with it as a meal, it just wasn’t the haggis we’ve become accustomed to.

 

[winjim]

I'm out of whisky although I did have porridge for breakfast this morning. Hope that counts.

Cock up your beaver everyone!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

We’re having Cullen Skink tonight instead of haggis. We’ll do the haggis on Saturday instead.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Happy Burns Night to one and all !
All this talk of haggis being an English dish illustrates the shared origins of English and Lowland Scots, we are most of us British-Anglo-Norse regardless of which side of the current border we now find ourselves on. The Scots language is derived from the language of the Angles the same as English. And Edinburgh/Lothians/Borders was Northumbrian for hundreds of years before Scotland even existed.