Address to the haggis

Haggis - Great Food from Scotland!
Call it Scottish meatloaf. Cooked pluck and suet and lamb's breast wrapped up in sheeps' intestines! I know it's Robbie Burns 250th anniversary but I think I'll abstain.

Robert Burns 250th Anniversary Quiz

Scots Language Quiz "Do you know your dook from your gleg? Or your kenspeckle from your rammy?"

Burns night address to the Tunnock's snowball

The Burns supper traditionally sees the triumphant entrance of the haggis - accompanied by bagpipes - which is greeted with the recitation of Burns's Address To A Haggis: '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 o' a grace / As lang's my arm.'

Now author Craig McGill has composed an alternative address to the Tunnock's snowball - a chocolate-coated marshmallow and biscuit sprinkled with coconut. 'Fair fa' coconut sprinkled face, / Great chieftain o the teacake-race! / Aboon them a' ye tak your place, / mallow, choc, or cream: / Weel are ye wordy of a grace / As lang's my arm.'Read more