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This year in particular I expect more people are having the Burn’s Supper experience given it is the 250th anniversary of the Scot’s national poet, Robert Burns and the year of Scottish Homecoming. Haggis, neeps and tatties is a well balanced meal and everyone I have come across loves it when they try it – usually until they discover what it is made of!
Some (almost) never get to the promised land of the Scottish haggis. A case in point my co-presenter on Something for the Weekend, Tim who had never tried haggis until this week (like many put off by tales of sheep’s stomach…) but loved it. It got me thinking. How many times do we turn our noses up a foods because they are not what we are used to? Take breakfast for example – surely the most dumbed down meal in the Western World. Since when did it become our cultural norm to eat processed and refined cereals and toast as our standard fare? On my travels I learned to love fish soup for breakfast in Thailand, a traditional Turkish breakfast of a plate of nibbles including goats cheese, tomato, olives, cucumber, bread drizzled with some lovely olive oil – but home made chapattis and lentil dhal washed down with mango lassi in India was the enduring favourite.
So, try something a little bit different just one morning this week and see how you feel by the usual 11am slump. Let me know how you get on – always looking for new ideas! Mind you, for those that saw me consume a fat bottomed ant from the Amazon at 11am a few Sundays ago live on air I’d recommend not going down that route…
