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british cuisine: traditions and festivities (Burns Night is celebrated…
british cuisine: traditions and festivities
Burns Night is celebrated
25th to commemorate
the life of the Scottish poet Robert Burns
on January
Many people hold a Burns Night supper
in Scotland
The evening centres on the entrance of traditional Scottish food haggis,
made of sheep's offal
served on a large platter
to the sound of a piper playing bagpips
Before the haggis there is usually a traditional cock-a-leekie soup and then the haggis is eaten with neeps and tatties
The traditional dessert is a Clootie Dumpling
shrove tuesday is the last day before Lent in the christian calendar,
the forty days before Easter,
traditionally a period of abstinence from sugary or fatty foods
mardi gras is a chance
to indulge in the foods you should not eat during Lent
like pancakes
pancake races
where you have to run whilst tossing pancake
making sure you do not drop it.
a tradition dating back to 1445
Another Shrove Tuesday tradition is 'mob football'.
where two teams are formed by anyone who wants to play football between a pair of goals up to threé miles apart