Burns Supper

The Burns Supper is in Scotland, an annual festival in honor of the poet Robert Burns. It is held on his birthday, 25 January (Burns Night, in Anglo-Saxon observances are usually born and not death days. ) Burns Suppers are not only held on this date in Scotland, but wherever the very substantial number of Scottish immigrants and their children have settled in the world, especially in Canada, Northern Ireland, Australia and the United States.

On the menu is always the same: soup, haggis with turnip and potatoes ( neeps and tatties ), and for dessert a trifle. At least at the toasts whiskey is drunk. The formal part of the evening follows a very ritualized process. Before the haggis is served, it is worn on a platter solemnly by the cook under the supervision of a dressed in a kilt piper to the speaker's table, where the host ( or the host of the restaurant, where you the Burns Night celebrates ) the Burns poem The Address to a Haggis (see below) argues. At the words cut you up wi 'ready slight ( " slash you with simple fluency " ) in the third stanza, the casing is cut so that the innards leak and spread all over the platter.

After dinner a number of speeches is held, always looking for a strictly ritualized order. The Immortal Memory is a commemorative speech on Burns, typically with literary appreciation of selected poems and a reference to the current policy and Sittlichkeiten. When toast to the lassies, a selected man may take the women angry with his arm before he devotes a toast. Then one of the women may respond in similar neckischem tone. In between poems and songs are sung by Burns and sung.

• Culture ( Scotland)
• Festivals and Customs (United Kingdom)
• Festival
• Memorial, celebration or action in January