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Burns Night Ideas ?
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I'm after a few ideas for Burns Night. I'm doing lunch on the Sunday.
Food, games, etc.
DT has mentioned flaming Drambuies. Is that a thing? They sound great.
Scottish charades ... books and films connected with Scotland?
And I'm going to do the "Topless Celebrities" game. You get pictures of loads of famous people, and crop off heir heads and shoulders, and the teams have to identify the bodies and legs from a list of names. I've got lots of famous Scottish men, but can't think of many women. Any ideas?
Oh, and whiskies. I was going to do Haggis as the first course, with maybe four shot glasses of malt whiskies on each place. I have some bottles of scotch whisky, maybe twenty or so, but I don't drink them, so I'm not sure how to pick four that are different from each other. I know there are peaty ones, and not peaty ones.
All ideas that I could pinch from your own Burns things would be welcome.
Food, games, etc.
DT has mentioned flaming Drambuies. Is that a thing? They sound great.
Scottish charades ... books and films connected with Scotland?
And I'm going to do the "Topless Celebrities" game. You get pictures of loads of famous people, and crop off heir heads and shoulders, and the teams have to identify the bodies and legs from a list of names. I've got lots of famous Scottish men, but can't think of many women. Any ideas?
Oh, and whiskies. I was going to do Haggis as the first course, with maybe four shot glasses of malt whiskies on each place. I have some bottles of scotch whisky, maybe twenty or so, but I don't drink them, so I'm not sure how to pick four that are different from each other. I know there are peaty ones, and not peaty ones.
All ideas that I could pinch from your own Burns things would be welcome.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Schooner glasses, JJ, full with Drambuie, wet the lips with something, light the top and down in one, with the flame in the glass. The trick is to keep it pouring down the throat in one - failure to do so is catastrophic! An ex University of St Andrews Burns Night and St Andrews night tradition.
Women - Susan Boyle, Sally Magnusson, Princess Anne (Pres of the Scottish RFU),
Beer - find some Belhaven, it's a lovely drop, very creamy.
Cullen Skink, (a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie...) Arbroath Smokies, The Haggis, Cranachan for dessert, Scottish Cheeses etc - nab Voddie for a few other ideas
Women - Susan Boyle, Sally Magnusson, Princess Anne (Pres of the Scottish RFU),
Beer - find some Belhaven, it's a lovely drop, very creamy.
Cullen Skink, (a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie...) Arbroath Smokies, The Haggis, Cranachan for dessert, Scottish Cheeses etc - nab Voddie for a few other ideas
JJ if you're stuck drop me an email [email protected]
You could use this chap in the topless celebrities game. John Brown, reputed to be Victoria's bosom companion in her later years.
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I was just image searching for pictures of Desperate Dan.
And I got this ...
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So talk me through how that nearest ... err "protrusion" ... looks like a cow horn.
As opposed to ...