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Burns Night
Each year Scottish people across the world celebrate a unique dinner known as
“
Burns Night
”
. This is
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__________ called Robert Burns. Traditionally it happens on his birthday, the 25th January.
Scotland
can be very dark and cold at this time of year, so it’s
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__________ with friends and family. Burns is still an important figure in
Scotland
and even though he died in 1796 at the age of 37, he was recently voted
“
The Greatest Scot
”
. His birthday has become as important as
Scotland
’s national day, St Andrew’s Day.
The idea for
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__________ soon after his death, and these days is actually quite a complicated affair. To start people are sat down at the table and the host reads a poem called
“
The Selkirk Grace
”
. It’s normally done in a Scottish dialect which even English people find difficult to understand. Although Burns probably didn't actually write this, he is known
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__________. Next, soup is served. The highlight though is listening to a bagpiper playing as the main course of haggis arrives.
Haggis is a special dish made from a mixture of sheep heart, lung and liver and oats, which is a bit like a giant sausage and surprisingly tasty. So tasty in fact that Robert Burns wrote
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__________. After dinner there’s a speaker, who may recite more poetry and a toast is made to the memory of Robert Burns. Next
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__________ about ladies and a female guest replies with a funny speech about men. Throughout the rest of the night there is even more of Burns’ poetry.
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