Re: Question?


Jo Schaper wrote:
don findlay wrote:

This from a young fellow, who died before he was forty; to nip the
neck of the only cow to collect the blood for ('puddins') was common
practice in rural Scotland in the face of severe poverty and hunger.
I've no doubt he would have agreed with you, Jo, but just might have
had something scathing to say about the juxtaposition. I'm sure he
would have regarded the current 'wha's-like-us' media hype about
haggis very cynically.

I was unaware the media was hyping haggis. My encounter was over a
decade ago.

You don't think anybody in Scotland eats the blinking stuff, do you?
On Burns night it gets a bit of a show on the plate but that's about
all. It's there as a kind of dare - to remind people Scotland has a
history, ..(if they would but think on it) How else would it have a
life if the media *didn't hype it up? *Of course* the media hype it
up. Once a year it gets more celebrity than the left breast of Kylie
Minogue. Why else do you think Connery scrounges the countryside
looking for deid sheip? It's does have multiple though. I'll bet
Aidan uses the stuff to keep his wellies in shape. (It probably does
a better job than him.)
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":.. The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalise Burns during his
life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a
"heaven-taught ploughman." Burns would influence later Scottish
writers, especially Hugh MacDiarmid who fought to dismantle the
sentimental Burns cult that had dominated Scottish literature in
MacDiarmid's opinion."
- Wiki.
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How else would the media of the day (and later) work, with no phones
and no emails and no television. Moses had tablets of stone to put
the wind up people. Scotland has haggis and bagpipes. We terrorise
the world with them. Burns is just along for the ride.

(Scotsmen, ..bunch of bloody singing shortbread tins...)

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