the noo.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link
We had veggie haggis, tatties, and spinach. Yum I love spinach. Then Mister Monkey made a whiskey cocktail, because I don't like whiskey. It had whiskey, lemon juice, kahlua, and triple sec in it. It was really good, but a little sweet.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Glenn Wool - Canadian - very much more my sort of thing.. More a performance. He started out with 2 tester jokes. The one about liking the band Franz Ferdinand but thinking about assassinating them just to see how it got reported.. Only Dawn and I laughed. Conversely, the joke about a-sx brought the house down. So it went that way for a while until most of the audience got more and more uncomfortable (which was the aim..) Excellent stuff..
Adam Bloom - More the classic altcom style, handled heckles as suggestions and worked them in no problem. Also bril.
I used to go see a lot of comedy night such like this, back in the day, but got bored to death when the edgy/different stuff went out, and the 'observational comedy' ruled. OK, so girls use more bogroll, I don't need to talk about it for 15 mins!
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 26 January 2007 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link
"Ally Bally Bee" always makes me cry a little bit, I think it's the tune moe than the words
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/122/369717414_7ec26460d0.jpg?v=0
― Ed (dali), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Whistling Bus (kate), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
there was an interesting article on haggis (i can't believe i just typed that) in the metro area in the dining section of the times on weds. as far as burns dinners go, it only mentioned private clubs but there were interviews with several butchers in kearny, nj who make and ship haggis if you want to do your own meal. i suspect that kearny might be the place to go if you really want to find a place that serves it.
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/369599451_8816679387.jpg
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost re: kearny
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
i really love haggis (i haven't looked for it in here though. it's gotta be around.)
― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
that's what it looks like to me. it was available as a jacket potato topping in glasgow, but i chickened out due to severe hangover.
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
it still is. it's all a friend of mine ate for a week once because safeway had their own brand on sale for 99p. he was in our office a lot at the time, and you do not even want to know about the digestive fallout.
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
There's yr problem, in a nutshell. Romanticised views of "the old country" abound, perhaps best summed up by the woman who runs a winery Ned drank a bottle from at a recent meal. She describes her heritage as coming from "the glen village of Falkirk". Yes, Falkirk. The Falkirk that Arab Strap come from.
When I was growing up we had haggis maybe once a fortnight, basically because it was cheap.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
hahahhahahahahah FUCKING HELL.
you sure she didn't say "the glum spillage of falkirk" or something?
growing up in blackpool, the child of highlanders, i ate haggis at least once a week. marks and spencer sold the stuff, for fuck's sake. i never knew there was anything particularly romantic/burnsian/whatever about it until i was 14; it was just a nice dinner we had. better than chicken kievs; not quite as good as mum's fried fish.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
bought my haggis for Monday.
― Isambard Kingdom Buñuel (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I won't be eating any but I will in fact be in the same room as a haggis tonight.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Monday! Thanks for the reminder, always forget this.
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
no haggis to be found in the immediate vicinity, cockaleekie perhaps...
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 22 January 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
dudes what the hell is in vegetarian haggis and is that really haggis?
― thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Friday, 22 January 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Djing a Burns' Night thing. Supposed to be a mix of trad and modern pop. No idea how I'm gonna manage it. Still, free haggis for me.
― grobravara hollaglob (dowd), Friday, 22 January 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
By which I mean: Help! I don't think I can mix the Alexander Brothers into Glasvegas into Jimmy Shand into Goodbye Mr Mackenzie...
― grobravara hollaglob (dowd), Friday, 22 January 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
a block of trad and then a crowd pleaser of modern pop and that will keep the dancefloor full of the easily scared and then into DJ's choice. Do the opposite to go back and maybe see if there are any Modern pop songs that you can dashing white seargeant to.
lol at Goodbye Mr Mackenzie though.....
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 22 January 2010 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll be okay if I never do the Gay Gordon's again, I think.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Friday, 22 January 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
blast this bad jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojpy8yYTU6w
― Isambard Kingdom Buñuel (jim in glasgow), Friday, 22 January 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i love laurel in a kilt itt.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 15 January 2011 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I've never eaten it, I have one in the fridge and intend to try it over the weekend. Should've had it on Tuesday really, but didn't realise it was Burns Night till after I'd eaten. Should I bake my haggis or boil it?
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 28 January 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Boil.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Wrap in foil and put in a dish of water in the oven.
― ailsa, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
So it's completely immersed?
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I had a bag of haggis flavored chips the other day but I think it was just 'pork flavoring' according to the bag
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Not completely immersed, no.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 January 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Just a couple of inches of water in the bottom of the dish. 45 minutes per pound. I tried doing it in a steamer last time and it didn't work as well. I think boiling it would run the risk of it going too watery.
― ailsa, Friday, 28 January 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The haggis was nice enough, but not my favourite thing ever. It reminded me most of a more offally black pudding. I think I overcooked it a bit though, and it was only a three quid one from Sainsburys.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 4 February 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
haggis shouldn't = black pudding. should be spicier, meatier, moister.
― hoisin crispy mubaduck (ledge), Friday, 4 February 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1I5hQkj.png
― 龜, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:07 (eight years ago) link
now i'm hungry
― i do not sense the entity ted (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link
me sorted for thursday
https://i.imgur.com/0SGI1Dz.png
― mark s, Monday, 22 January 2024 15:48 (four months ago) link
sorry. no haggis. the nearest approach I could make would be a bowl of oatmeal.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:25 (four months ago) link
BELCH! BURP!
― mark s, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:53 (four months ago) link