Holiday coincidence

[mtbc]

The Year of the Rat starts next Saturday which also happens to be the birthday of the poet Robert Burns. From Dundee we will thus pick up some celebratory foods from Matthews who describe themselves as an oriental supermarket which intrigues me because some East Asian people find the adjective oriental offensive so it abides on my growing don't call things that list. We shall also pick up traditional Scots fare, of course including haggis from a Perthshire butcher; I shan't be piping its journey to table given that the reed in my chanter is broken. It will be interesting to see how the various food goes together.

(We are neither Scottish nor Asian. Those aghast at how we desecrate others' cultures by appropriating from them may not want to be reading this journal at all.)