[at-l] It's Burn's Night! (OT, Scots humour)

[papabear.nyc@xxxxxxxxxxx (Papa Bear)]

> as the time approaches for the evening meal they arrive at the last ward.
> They follow the dinner trolley into the ward and wait while one of the
> nurses lifts the lid on the food tray. To the doctor's surprise there is
but
> a single haggis on the tray to feed a whole ward.

I very much enjoyed this story, but being no scot, I was mystified as to
what a "haggis" is, except obviously it was some kind of food (and one that
could be used to parry a knife), so I looked it up.  Here's what I got:

hag' gis, n. [Scot. hag, to chop, cut] a Scottish dish, commonly made of the
heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, salt
and pepper, and boiled in a bag, usually the stomach of a sheep.

Yum ... now that is hiker related after all.

Pb