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Article: Eating in: Ode to a haggis for a tartan feast.

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January 23, 2000
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WHILE most stomachs in the United Kingdom are now back on an even post-Christmas keel, those in Scotland are being braced for one of the biggest food festivals of the year.

This coming Tuesday is Burns Night when Scots throughout the year will remember Robert Burns, born on January 25, and favourite poet north of the border.

Thanks to his Address to a Haggis poem, one of the key roles in the proceedings will be haggis, which together with black pudding and faggots must be one of the most misunderstood foods around. The trouble is most people view haggis ...

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