I have to address a haggis

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what do I say please mumsnet~?

www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/toahaggis.htm

You need the poem Address To a Haggis, by Robert Burns. Just read it out, very straightforward .

www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/toahaggis.htm

You're welcome

I see a few got to it before me.... If you're not Scottish you're going to have to do your best with the pronunciation. Good luck!

Mine is about to go in the oven!

Sadly won’t be eating it as I got my bfp this morning, but my guests will have extra while I enjoy some Cumberland sausage instead 😄

I’m pretty sure I ate it all through pregnancy @littlegoth - why wouldn’t you?

thank you. I think alcohol and reading a translation first are the answers here.

what is bfp?

Ours is in the oven.
I ate it while pregnant last year.
Not as much, due to a fragile tummy that struggled with anything other than fairly plain food, but I wouldn't have thought to NOT eat it.

I’m sure I ate haggis while pregnant, I definitely had haggis supers from the chip shop. Was that wrong?

Poor wee haggis! 'fair fa' his honest sonsie face'... Them's endangered don't you know?

It’s offal, so high in vitamin A. Sadly down as food to avoid.

I’ll be ready for new year haggis though!

I’m sure liver free is available but I don’t live it as much. Ironically I won’t touch liver outside of haggis 😄

When you're addressing the haggis its more than just saying the words. You have to do the dramatic knife stabbing bit as well!

Great video here giving some cultural context and explaining what it all means:

I'm doing the reply to the toast to the lassies bit nervous!!!!

BRILLIANT!!!
Wish I was there
Have a great night and a wee dram for me

@Littlegoth
Congratulations.

Could you have a veggie haggis? Even the committed carnivores in this house like nicking mine.

We are having our haggis tomorrow, i will eat a tiny bit and save myself for the Flummery and the Porrage brulee ( why have one when you can have 2 ) followed by a few glasses of bubbly jock and one wee dram

In the end we got the six teenagers to read the which they did with varying levels of success. It was all good fun.

It’s a funny idea,Burns night! A bit like Ed Balls day for the 19th century!