Haggis Ban In America ends.

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 05:15:42 EST 2010


On 25/01/2010 09:15, stephen barncard wrote:
> At last!
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/24/america-haggis-ban-lifted-burns
>
>    

Whacko!

And the funniest thing about this is that far more North Americans of
Scots descent (there are folk who would say that crossing the Atlantic
is more a case of 'ascent' than descent) celebrate Burn's night that do
in Scotland.

Speaking as a fairly right-wing sort of chap, while I do like some of
Burn's verse I don't take kindly to his proto-socialist politics, so I will
eat my haggis on July 8th; the accession date of our current legal monarch;
His Majesty King Francis II:

http://www.jacobite.ca/kings/francis2.htm



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