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  • @theevilascotcompany9255
    @theevilascotcompany9255 5 років тому +110

    1:57 - 2:07 after hearing that poem, my trousers turned into a kilt

    • @samreid1769
      @samreid1769 4 роки тому

      The Evil Ascot Company and your boxers disappeared 😂

  • @MrIcelander
    @MrIcelander 8 років тому +245

    This particular episode marked the first time I ever heard Sandi speak danish and it wasn't until her taking over as host of this show last year that I heard her say a full sentence. I've always been so impressed by her english that it really threw me she's preserved her native language as well as she has. I was so sure she would have at least have one hefty thick english accent, if not just forgone it completely.

    • @GGov86
      @GGov86 8 років тому +105

      It's even crazier that she originally had an American accent, and she picked her current accent up from TV to fit in better in the UK.

    • @MrIcelander
      @MrIcelander 8 років тому +33

      GGov86 I think I read somewhere it was more radio than telly, which goes a long way to explain why she's gone for this kind of a posh " 40's Agatha Christie's radio drama" accent ;)

    • @Kyle_Hubbard
      @Kyle_Hubbard 8 років тому +23

      For anyone interested she goes into it more in more depth on the show "As yet Untitled" The show that Davis himself hosts.

    • @TizzmantineUK
      @TizzmantineUK 7 років тому +48

      She said in ''As yet untitled'' that when she was sent to England by her parents to attend a boarding school, The school didnt have any televisions but one night they watched a movie (i cant recall the name) in the assembly hall, and she decided during the movie that she would sound like the leading lady, because for the 1st few months of her living in the UK literally NOBODY would talk to her due to her New York accent, so she faked a british accent to better fit in, she goes on to say the only time her American accent comes back is when shes very tired

    • @ncrsnz
      @ncrsnz 7 років тому

      Eddie Icelander i

  • @Aigsup
    @Aigsup 6 років тому +444

    Mighty *furher* of the *sausage people*

    • @klaxoncow
      @klaxoncow 5 років тому +14

      Or, alternatively, "Fuehrer".
      (Sticking "e" after "o", "u" or "a" - "oe", "ue" or "ae" - is equivalent to the umlauted "ö", "ä" or "ü" in German. And, thus, serves as a handy way of being able to type certain words like "Führer" on a non-German keyboard that lacks easy access to the umlauted characters.
      Also, "ss" is equivalent to "ß" - although there has been spelling reforms in Germany that's officially dropped a lot of usage of "ß", replacing it with "ss", as it has apparently fallen out of favour. Not fashionable in Germany anymore, it seems.)

    • @Woollylinnet
      @Woollylinnet 5 років тому +2

      @@klaxoncowThe spelling reform you referenced simply standardised when to use "ss" (after short vowels) and when to use "ß" (after long vowels and diphthongs). So "ich lasse" (I leave - short 'a') but "die Straße" (the street - long 'a').
      There are other examples of alternative ways of writing characters not found on a keyboard, eg 'aa' for 'å' in Norwegian and Danish.

    • @SStoj
      @SStoj 5 років тому +6

      @@klaxoncow The length of time before that bracket was closed gave me anxiety!

    • @zarabada6125
      @zarabada6125 5 років тому +10

      @@klaxoncow it seems strange when someone says the "SS" is becoming popular in Germany again...

    • @jamesbews6049
      @jamesbews6049 5 років тому +2

      Yes, we watched it too... thanks...

  • @buamp8186
    @buamp8186 4 роки тому +9

    Stephen and Sandi need their own show. They're so perfect for each other.

  • @GeorgiaGeorgette
    @GeorgiaGeorgette 6 років тому +1023

    'Because the Americans don't approve of inedible food.'
    Cheese in a spray can. Case rested.

    • @joepunk90
      @joepunk90 6 років тому +22

      Was the sarcasm lost on you?

    • @JackVermicelli
      @JackVermicelli 6 років тому +14

      I think you're exactly backwards about spray cheese, as to which part of "inedible food" applies.

    • @NxDoyle
      @NxDoyle 6 років тому +42

      You know, before I went to America for the first time, I had this kooky notion that the stock standard cheesy comestible would be trump-coloured goop. But, like everything with America, they have the best of everything and the worst of everything. And the good stuff is cheaper.

    • @kalevala29
      @kalevala29 6 років тому

      lol

    • @michaeldukes4108
      @michaeldukes4108 5 років тому +21

      I raise you... most British food.

  • @MyLateralThawts
    @MyLateralThawts 7 років тому +308

    In the immortal words of groundskeeper Willie, "...Haggis, it tastes as good as it sounds!"

    • @MGSfanlan
      @MGSfanlan 5 років тому +11

      "Damn scotts, they ruined Scotland!"

    • @jethrohendrix5091
      @jethrohendrix5091 5 років тому +1

      @@MGSfanlan there is only about 1000 people named scott in scotland

    • @dash2240
      @dash2240 4 роки тому +3

      @@jethrohendrix5091 that may just be the dullest factoid ever

    • @jethrohendrix5091
      @jethrohendrix5091 4 роки тому +5

      @@dash2240 thats what scott said

    • @michaellavery4899
      @michaellavery4899 4 роки тому

      @@jethrohendrix5091 forename or surname?

  • @Orion3741
    @Orion3741 3 роки тому +14

    Very entertaining and informative show. Love the dialect from the Scottish gentleman. And the humour is delicious. Thank you.

  • @scottag3597
    @scottag3597 4 роки тому +60

    To anyone who hasn't tried haggis: I know the list of ingredients sounds awful, but with the spices that go in and the way. It's minced, cooked, then minced again makes it delicious!

    • @karibordi2082
      @karibordi2082 4 роки тому +5

      Absolutely. When I went to Scotland the first thing I did was finding haggis. I had no idea what it was and I absolutely love it. Could eat haggis three times a day

    • @evansaschow
      @evansaschow 4 роки тому +8

      It doesn’t sound awful, it sounds offal

    • @hjt091
      @hjt091 3 роки тому +14

      Anyone who's disgusted by the ingredients of a haggis clearly has no idea what goes into a sausage.

    • @branthomas1621
      @branthomas1621 3 роки тому +1

      Put it in a steamer for half an hour, make potatoes and swede and cabbage mash, cut open the haggis and mix it with the mash, put it in the fridge, when cold press it into burgers in your hands then fry/bake -serve it with roast beef and roasted potatoes, and parsnips (neeps and tatties) it's the best way I know. Don't forget the gravy.

    • @rehanmemon3969
      @rehanmemon3969 2 роки тому +1

      I've seen references to it in media and cartoons and such, and it was always described as bad, but I must admit, my curiosity has been piqued for years and it's been on my 'must try once' list.

  • @rogertulk8607
    @rogertulk8607 3 роки тому +8

    Haggis is delicious, and once when I was reciting the Address to a Haggis to the IODE, I gave a little speech comparing the contents of haggis to other sausages, and doubled the number of people who tried it over the previous years. Some of those people will never eat a hot dog again.

  • @hunterdavis9941
    @hunterdavis9941 7 років тому +72

    I can't ever hear the word haggis, without hearing the Scotsman from Samurai Jack yelling the word

  • @arildolsen4232
    @arildolsen4232 3 роки тому +4

    We have haggis in Norway as well, but no stomach around it. It's called lungemos which literally translates as mashed lung. But it's actually quite good- we eat it with potatoes, carrots and a little bit of sugar on top.

  • @neireannach
    @neireannach 4 роки тому +10

    My tiny home town in Easter Oregon is named Burns after him.

  • @dennist3hmenace
    @dennist3hmenace 8 років тому +459

    When the dude in the blue jacket is retelling the poem, it honestly sounds like gibberish to me.

    • @witardedphuc
      @witardedphuc 8 років тому +17

      Well, same goes for anyone who lives in northern england, as far as I can tell...just a bunch of gibbering non-sense everytime they open their mouths.

    • @andymackie8283
      @andymackie8283 8 років тому +122

      He's Scottish and the poem is in Burns' vernacular: most Anglophones will only be able to understand parts of it.

    • @TheHuntsman42
      @TheHuntsman42 8 років тому +70

      Thats because you have an intellectual ineptitude to comprehend regional dialect born of the same mother tongue and as far as i can detail from your previous comments, inconceivable amounts of ignorance, fed by your stereo-typical, in-bred, degenerate upbringing, common of the south of England. Save your retort, educate yourself, embrace parallel culture and better yourself. Perhaps then you may have abstained sufficiently to approach such matters with logic and foresight rather than the aforementioned ridicule carved into your mind. Conclusively, if you wish to remain an anonymous fool, perhaps consider your words prior to posting on a public format thus reducing your chance of being shamefully mocked into misery of doubt and despair.

    • @witardedphuc
      @witardedphuc 8 років тому +1

      Nah, numbnuts is just one of those who gibber. I'm sure Stephen Fry knows of them well. He finds their manner of speech just as bewildering as we do.

    • @RubyDoobieScoo
      @RubyDoobieScoo 8 років тому +3

      "Buns" not "Burns" according to the Scottish guy who can't pronounce basic words.

  • @bw4500
    @bw4500 7 років тому +12

    I cried laughing. This is brilliant.

  • @drewlovelyhell4892
    @drewlovelyhell4892 3 роки тому +31

    I tried Haggis at a wedding.. I was a bit nervous, but it was delicious! Sort of like a spicy lamb casserole. You don't eat the stomach, that's just the outer casing. Definitely ignore the stigma and try it if you get the chance.

    • @ptinvite7942
      @ptinvite7942 3 роки тому +1

      Can't imagine it being delicious enough to court BSE.

    • @drewlovelyhell4892
      @drewlovelyhell4892 3 роки тому +4

      @@ptinvite7942 I highly doubt you'd be at more risk of contracting Mad Cow Disease from Haggis than any other beef product.

    • @hjt091
      @hjt091 3 роки тому +3

      @@drewlovelyhell4892 there's in fact no risk whatsoever of contracting cow diseases from a haggis because it's sheep meat

    • @drewlovelyhell4892
      @drewlovelyhell4892 3 роки тому +1

      @@hjt091 Haggis can contain beef as well as lamb, depending on the recipe.

    • @221b-Maker-Street
      @221b-Maker-Street 3 роки тому

      @@ptinvite7942 It's the sheep's lungs America objects to, not any beef - though traditionally it's an entirely cow-free zone anyway as haggis is made from lamb. You're far more likely to court vCJD by eating dodgy burgers made from infected spinal cord and brain, than you ever will from eating haggis... 🐏

  • @Mochrie99
    @Mochrie99 4 роки тому +25

    "Mighty Fuhrer Of The Sausage People" ROFL!

  • @MrPaulmorris7777
    @MrPaulmorris7777 6 років тому +7

    St.Andrews Day in November, too. Then, nothing from Feb to October!!!

  • @johnbull9195
    @johnbull9195 5 років тому +2

    Christmas didn't become a public holiday in Scotland until the 1950's.

  • @Rowsdow3r
    @Rowsdow3r 8 років тому +70

    Watching this again. It's no wonder why our new QI host was picked.

    • @MrTincify
      @MrTincify 5 років тому

      ? Why

    • @Barrillel
      @Barrillel 4 роки тому +3

      @@MrTincify I think they were more talking about how wonderful Sandi is in this episode (and all the other Stephen episodes too) and not that Stephen was bad in this episode.

  • @claudebylion9932
    @claudebylion9932 3 роки тому +1

    Go to a town called Chorley, in Greater Manchester, and a butcher there, at the side of the indoor market, makes Lancashire haggis. This truly is a food fit for the gods.

    • @branthomas1621
      @branthomas1621 3 роки тому +2

      Chorley is NOT in Greater Manchester. But, I will remember to look for the Haggis the next time I am there, thanks.

  • @richardwaring8613
    @richardwaring8613 2 місяці тому +1

    Just got out of my Tardis. This is 2024 and Keir Starmer just referred to the Israeli hostages in Gaza as sausages. A good description of Mr Starmer is 'Great Führer of the Sausage People'.

  • @sEaNoYeAh
    @sEaNoYeAh 4 роки тому +5

    As ever with my wee country the whole story is often not fully told. We kid ourselves first and foremost.
    Rabbie Burns was forward thinking and progressive, and came to support abolition, but before his poetry career took off he accepted a position as an overseer on a plantation in Jamaica. A role he described as a "negro driver".
    His later writings and egalitarian philosophies are to be applauded, but it's important to note he wasn't born with these views, he developed them over time with thought, experience and empathy. Now regarded as a champion of abolition, don't forget he himself nearly ended up with a career in the Caribbean slave trade. In 1786 he bought a ticket to the Indies and everything, but at the very last minute his Kilmarnock volume found success, and he went to Edinburgh instead.

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 2 роки тому

      Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  • @ShiftingDrifter
    @ShiftingDrifter 4 роки тому +2

    Bavarian Germans who immigrated to America and settled in Western Maryland/Southern Pennsylvania Dutch heredity brought a variation on Haggis made from sausage trimmings, seasonings and diced potatoes in a pig's stomach and called "Hog Maw." It doesn't have lung, brain or heavy-flavor parts, but may include other parts of hog trimmings. I grew up on it as my mother was from that genealogy and it's actually quite tasty. I suspect the notion of using the stomach as a stuffing casing has been around for centuries.

  • @ZergrushEddie
    @ZergrushEddie 5 років тому +3

    1:59
    Is that English? (My hearing is really, really bad and I am unsure if it is an accent or non-English.)

    • @BenthiccBiomancer
      @BenthiccBiomancer 5 років тому +10

      I believe it's Scots, which was spoken in lowland Scotland. It's somewhere between a dialect of English and divergent language, so you're right for think it sounds like English.

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy 4 роки тому +1

      It's the Scots language.

  • @billyeveryteen7328
    @billyeveryteen7328 3 роки тому +2

    As an American, I don't understand the disgust towards the idea of a haggis. It's just a sausage; yeah, it's made from the leftover garbage parts of the animal, but that's the entire point of sausages.

  • @JD_13
    @JD_13 3 роки тому +1

    Haggis is absolutely unbelievably good. Just close your eyes and dont think too much.

  • @samb1123
    @samb1123 2 роки тому

    Haggis is delicious! I am Canadian with a minor portion of Scots blood so I really don't have a cultural investment in Haggis but I love the stuff.

  • @andrewseller7681
    @andrewseller7681 6 років тому +23

    you can tell Rob Brydon is just scheming

  • @Bobbydazzlla
    @Bobbydazzlla 5 років тому +9

    My relatives are the sausage people - who knew?

  • @Rowsdow3r
    @Rowsdow3r 8 років тому +8

    I would be that in the modern day the most smuggled thing would have been Cuban cigars. I live pretty close to the border, and lots, and lots of people bring over Cuban cigars.

    • @witardedphuc
      @witardedphuc 8 років тому +1

      I don't smoke any more, but I'd consider smoking again if offered one of those.

  • @vee588
    @vee588 3 роки тому

    Hey today's burns night!

  • @Ingestedbanjo
    @Ingestedbanjo 7 років тому +10

    I really want some haggis now please.

  • @akhilr1638
    @akhilr1638 5 років тому +1

    Please add subtitles please

  • @martyspencer3466
    @martyspencer3466 4 роки тому +1

    Is the plural of Haggis,Haggii?

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 4 роки тому

      No because it isn't Latin. Thanks for asking.

  • @johnkerr67
    @johnkerr67 6 років тому +11

    Also the story isn't true. It originates from when Bertie Vogts became the Scotland manager and the poem was translated back and forth and became "King of the sausage people" but you know, comedians make stuff up.

  • @glypnir
    @glypnir 4 роки тому

    My parents smuggled Sucaryl made from sodium cyclamate. They preferred it to saccharin.

  • @greebo7857
    @greebo7857 4 роки тому

    0:35... The country that gave us McDonalds, and as China Raven points out, cheese spray. Of course, she IS Scandinavian... They eat seals.

    • @HellaGust
      @HellaGust 4 роки тому

      I've never heard of a Dane eating seal. The seal-hunting in scandinavia is primarily for the purpose of controlling the population which is otherwise growing out of control (or perhaps more correctly competing with humans for fish and being a general nuisance to the fishing industry) rather than food. You *can* apparently get seal in various restaurants and the like, or if you happen to know a seal hunter I suppose, but to the majority of scandinavians it would be a curiosity at best, and many would probably find it distasteful. Seal meat apparently also takes a bit of know-how to avoid an unpleasant oily flavor from the blubber.
      Most seals that are hunted in scandinavia are just dumped into the ocean. Due to EU regulations prohibiting the trading of the meat and fur of seals there really isn't a market even for a non-EU member like Norway, so while the killing of the animals is supported and encouraged in many places, it all goes to waste. There are places in scandinavia where seal meat is more common, but they're much farther north than Denmark, and don't generally have much in the way of population density. In other words: to say that Scandinavians eat seal is a bit like saying that Americans eat lamb testicles. There are those who do, But it's so rare and localized that it's misleading to attribute it to the whole country or region.

  • @lindaford1230
    @lindaford1230 Рік тому

    Last time I was in Scotland I had a haggis burger, it was delicious.

  • @Jezidka
    @Jezidka 5 років тому

    We're can I get haggis in Idaho?

    • @johnspooner1403
      @johnspooner1403 5 років тому +3

      Jess401 - I'm going to say... British Columbia?

    • @BambooAcrobatVerte
      @BambooAcrobatVerte 3 роки тому

      You can order canned haggis online. It’s quite expensive but totally worth it. Goes great with mashed potatoes.

  • @michaeldukes4108
    @michaeldukes4108 5 років тому +8

    Sandi seems here like that one student who absolutely must answer EVERY question the teacher asks. Pipe down! Let the Scotsman give the date of Burns’ birthday!

  • @kansascityshuffle8526
    @kansascityshuffle8526 5 років тому +6

    Here I thought it was prescribed medication.

  • @TheHutchy01
    @TheHutchy01 5 років тому

    The German translation being used for the Burns Night address to Hitler.

  • @dr.tetraminflakes3187
    @dr.tetraminflakes3187 3 роки тому

    the sausage people, that's a timelord from season 2 of doctor who

  • @ukdnbmarsh
    @ukdnbmarsh 4 роки тому +2

    so Burns and Haggis , best of british

  • @neilgerace355
    @neilgerace355 2 роки тому

    Not the metric system?

  • @doraemon402
    @doraemon402 5 років тому +12

    I could not understand a single word from the poem. No problem understanding him when he's just speaking, though.

    • @markmayonnaise1163
      @markmayonnaise1163 5 років тому +4

      The poem is written is Scots, which is distinct from Scottish-accented English

    • @JacksonBockus
      @JacksonBockus 3 роки тому +2

      The poem is in a different language that is not completely mutually intelligible with English.

  • @ConstantChaos1
    @ConstantChaos1 5 років тому +2

    God I wish I could get some haggis rn

  • @thehellyousay
    @thehellyousay 5 років тому +2

    Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs!
    What? Haggis?
    😶

  • @thesubhumancomedy
    @thesubhumancomedy 11 місяців тому

    I like learning, even if it isn't krt

  • @1357-r6o
    @1357-r6o 3 роки тому

    Yerman 👍

  • @timotejbernat462
    @timotejbernat462 5 років тому +32

    "And it starts like this:" *proceeds to have stroke*

  • @ryancoulter4797
    @ryancoulter4797 5 років тому +2

    Heart, lungs and kinder eggs

    • @calliarcale
      @calliarcale 3 роки тому

      Heart's not banned in the US. You can get chicken hearts and gizzards in most any supermarket, and butchers will sell the hearts of larger animals such as pigs and cows.

  • @peachesjackofski8363
    @peachesjackofski8363 4 роки тому

    I thought a mic was being held to the mans mouth at 3.10 😂

  • @alistairwood1674
    @alistairwood1674 2 роки тому

    all celebrations in the same part of the year? new year day 1st jan burns night 25 jan are the start of the year xmas 25 dec and new year eve 31 dec are the end of the year

  • @jp4431
    @jp4431 4 роки тому +3

    Haggis: it doesn't taste as awful as it sound

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Рік тому

      Does it sound bad? I never thought it sounded bad. It’s just a word.

  • @Yahntia
    @Yahntia 8 років тому +6

    Thought 'offal' derived from Dutch 'afval' (rubbish) after they invented a new way of gutting fish?

    • @almostfm
      @almostfm 8 років тому +1

      I like that it's the origin of the word, since my brother-in-law has referred to haggis as being "boiled garbage, in a bag".

    • @ilikethisnamebetter
      @ilikethisnamebetter 7 років тому +1

      Ah, not because it's awful then.

    • @rfldss89
      @rfldss89 7 років тому

      probably comes from some ancient form of english/german. theyre all related anyways

  • @tonywebster8582
    @tonywebster8582 5 років тому

    No one ever asks - is beehive tossing morally wrong?

    • @BertGrink
      @BertGrink 5 років тому

      Tentatively i would say yes, but i need to look further into the matter before i can deliver a proper verdict. At this point I'll limit myself to saying that if the hive has been abandoned by its tenants, it's probably not too bad.

    • @tonywebster8582
      @tonywebster8582 5 років тому

      @@BertGrink It only works if the beehive is full of bee's.

  • @goodguykonrad3701
    @goodguykonrad3701 2 роки тому

    Haggis, mashed neeps and tatties: what more could you want

  • @darknessblades
    @darknessblades 5 років тому +3

    There is another answer
    Kinder surprise egg

  • @ClayLoomis1958
    @ClayLoomis1958 5 років тому +1

    I don't know...... We have an actual food-like substance for sale in America called Potted Meat Food Product. It contains meat items deemed unfit for Spam or hotdogs. Must be legal to sell it. Lots of companies do it - Hormel, Libby's, Armour, etc. I don't know of anyone who has actually eaten it though.

    • @kourii
      @kourii 2 роки тому

      Potted meat doesn't have lung in it, but in any case the ban is on the _import_ of (sheep) lungs for fear of BSE. You can make and sell haggis domestically, lungs and all

    • @ClayLoomis1958
      @ClayLoomis1958 2 роки тому

      @@kourii Yummy!

  • @thesubhumancomedy
    @thesubhumancomedy 11 місяців тому

    Burns, ans sweet little people

  • @L.C.Sweeney
    @L.C.Sweeney 3 роки тому +1

    Did a Dane just offend another culture's food? That's rich.

  • @davidcourt238
    @davidcourt238 4 роки тому

    Haggis still banned in u s

  • @johnburn8031
    @johnburn8031 Рік тому

    Haggis is delicious 😋

  • @davebarrowcliffe1289
    @davebarrowcliffe1289 6 років тому +6

    The British stopped slavery for the first time in human history....
    Don't forget that eh? 😀

    • @babablap
      @babablap 6 років тому

      @r385671 but Britain did it in 1772 (Sumerset v Steward)

    • @kylenetherwood8734
      @kylenetherwood8734 5 років тому +2

      Slavery was outlawed in Britain by William the First.

    • @luketonkinson5440
      @luketonkinson5440 5 років тому

      Kyle Netherwood only on the British Isles though

    • @lennydale92
      @lennydale92 5 років тому +1

      One of the best thing that the Anglo world did was the abolition of slavery.

  • @ne12bot94
    @ne12bot94 5 років тому

    Haggis came from Ireland .v😐v idk?

  • @darknessblades
    @darknessblades 4 роки тому

    Also Kinder suprise eggs. those where also mass smuggled into the USA

  • @XXXX-yc6wv
    @XXXX-yc6wv 3 роки тому

    Still is smuggling of Kinder Surprise, funnily enough.

  • @jameshudson169
    @jameshudson169 5 років тому

    we've had mchagis at mcdonald's and taco hagis at taco bell. it used to be called the mexican hangis but they changed it. it was too racist. it's taco bell for god's sake! but they use light substitute. never been brave enough to try 'em myself, mind you.

    • @branthomas1621
      @branthomas1621 3 роки тому

      So, Mexican haggis? Is that like a burrito? I've never been to Taco Bell.

    • @jameshudson169
      @jameshudson169 3 роки тому

      @@branthomas1621 it's a sheep's bladder stuffed with beans and guacamolay and carnay asdah.

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Рік тому

      Mchaggis? Was that actually a thing?

    • @jameshudson169
      @jameshudson169 Рік тому

      @@rachelcookie321 nah, i was just messing with you. :D

  • @junbh2
    @junbh2 5 років тому +2

    I am Canadian and when I saw the title my brain immediately said 'weed'. That would probably be more true but less interesting :).

    • @shurdi3
      @shurdi3 5 років тому

      Good ol BC Weed

    • @TravelingBibliophile
      @TravelingBibliophile 5 років тому +1

      If it wasn’t for the photo, I would have said Kinder Surprise (in the last couple of years they changed, I think, so they may be able to get them). Their reasoning was that it was a toy inside a candy, which could be harmful to children. This reason always perplexed me as they sold Cracker Jack for decades which was had a prize/toy inside a box of candy/caramel popcorn. Cracker Jack also had a little clown-like mascot named Jack, to appeal to children. Kinder Surprise doesn’t need a commercial in Canada we just buy it for the toy and the chocolate.

  • @grahamlive
    @grahamlive 6 років тому +1

    I believe the plural is “hagii”. (I have not researched this). 😏😏

    • @LEO_M1
      @LEO_M1 4 роки тому

      I’m pretty sure the plural of “haggis” is “haggis”.

  • @CambyBolongo
    @CambyBolongo 4 роки тому +2

    "he was completely and utterly anti slave trade"
    Except for that time he wanted to go to Jamaica to work as a slave driver.

    • @bobmcgrath1272
      @bobmcgrath1272 4 роки тому +1

      Haha exactly my thought!
      He was to go and run a plantation if I recall correctly.
      How he would’ve been ridiculed now.🤦‍♂️

  • @jakeunderwood9
    @jakeunderwood9 5 років тому

    Didn't understand a word of that poem so...

    • @JacksonBockus
      @JacksonBockus 3 роки тому

      Do you speak the language in which it’s written?

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff 5 місяців тому

    whiskey

  • @annother3350
    @annother3350 5 років тому +6

    I never knew until recently that burns was Jewish. It says on Wikipedia he was known as Rabbi Burns. 😉

  • @just-tess
    @just-tess 5 місяців тому

    Sandi was just made to be the host!

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 4 роки тому

    "Haggises"???

  • @msamour
    @msamour 4 роки тому +2

    I wouldn't be surprised if the fellow in the blue blazer is a Mason brother. The Scotish Rite is quite fond of hosting events on Robbie Burns's birthday.

  • @josephmorneau4339
    @josephmorneau4339 5 років тому

    Why is haggis spelled as if it is two syllables yet everyone on this show is saying a three syllable word when saying "haggis"? How does one get three syllables out of that simple word?

    • @LEO_M1
      @LEO_M1 4 роки тому +1

      Because Fry is pronouncing it as “haggises” which you’d only use when referencing the different types of haggis, whereas the general plural is just “haggis”.

    • @josephmorneau4339
      @josephmorneau4339 4 роки тому

      @@LEO_M1 Ok thanks. So sort of like fish and fishes?

  • @morpar318
    @morpar318 5 років тому +2

    That just looks like my s**t after a night of it's supposed healthy whole grain meal.

  • @AbCat4
    @AbCat4 3 роки тому +5

    It's so nice when they can have an intimate and intelligent conversation without Alan Davies interrupting with toilet humour.

  • @marccolten9801
    @marccolten9801 5 років тому

    Maple syrup?

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones 7 років тому +3

    Shouldn't the plural of haggis be haggi?

    • @jessicalee333
      @jessicalee333 7 років тому +5

      If it were Latin, it would have to be "haggus" with a "u" for the plural to be "haggi". "Haggis" would be pluralized something like "hagges". "-is" is pluralized "-es" usually, like "parenthesis -> parentheses" or "penis -> penes" (which is technically correct, if you ever have to use the plural).

  • @keithharding8645
    @keithharding8645 Рік тому

    The German word for "rubbish'"is "abfalle"

  • @geoffgeoff143
    @geoffgeoff143 4 роки тому +1

    Heaps, 'ay

  • @ConstantChaos1
    @ConstantChaos1 4 роки тому

    I wish it was still was, love that shit

  • @221b-Maker-Street
    @221b-Maker-Street 3 роки тому

    _"Mighty Führer of The Sausage People"_ 😳

  • @spacewarpphotography1667
    @spacewarpphotography1667 4 роки тому +1

    Before I watch this clip, as an American, I'm going to guess that Canadians attempted to smuggle in Human Decency, but they were caught and their shipments destroyed.

    • @sstills951
      @sstills951 3 роки тому +1

      Oooh edgy. Pack your bags and head north pal.

  • @TheSSSdriver
    @TheSSSdriver 2 роки тому

    MIGHTY FUHRER OF THE SAUSAGE PEOPLE

  • @thephidias
    @thephidias 3 роки тому

    a riny amount of common sense - but they stopped it at the border.

  • @therealdamancy
    @therealdamancy 5 років тому

    Justin Beiber?

  • @therealdamancy
    @therealdamancy 4 роки тому

    Justin Beiber

  • @nathanpitek3177
    @nathanpitek3177 5 років тому

    Holy shit when he read that little poem he went into a completely different language

    • @JacksonBockus
      @JacksonBockus 3 роки тому +1

      Yes, Scots is a different language.

  • @lancer525
    @lancer525 5 років тому

    Didn't understand a damn thing he said. That Scottish brogue is nearly unintelligible. And when they're drunk, it's worse.

    • @decodolly1535
      @decodolly1535 4 роки тому +1

      It's not a brogue, the poem is in the Scots language.

  • @andersbodin1551
    @andersbodin1551 5 років тому

    Inculine

  • @Cylindricity
    @Cylindricity 6 років тому +2

    Better healthcare?

    • @albertannationalist
      @albertannationalist 5 років тому

      Actually Canadians flock to the USA for the superior healthcare. Even the politicians who denounce "private healthcare".

  • @TheWalz15
    @TheWalz15 5 років тому

    I don't know what anything of these things are

  • @ilikethisnamebetter
    @ilikethisnamebetter 7 років тому +1

    ".. affection in the ENGLISH culture.." Was this a slip, or a dig?

    • @Oceanmun8174
      @Oceanmun8174 6 років тому +4

      ilikethisnamebetter Not sure if you care anymore but he is saying that no poet is liked as much in the English culture as Burns is in the scottish one.

    • @england1413
      @england1413 6 років тому +2

      What he means is that apart from Shakespeare no other poet is held in higher regard in England. This is true.

    • @ilikethisnamebetter
      @ilikethisnamebetter Рік тому

      Not sure if you care any more, but thanks, I get it now :)@@Oceanmun8174

  • @charliemartin980
    @charliemartin980 7 років тому

    LANCASHIRE LANCASHIRE

  • @stelsewhere11
    @stelsewhere11 5 років тому +1

    Isn't it incredible how dismissive contemptuous and smugly imperious the English are when addressing ANYTHING Scottish .
    Is it that the English are so afraid of Scots and Scotland that they feel they have to put them down through haughty condescension at every opportunity ?

    • @artsed08
      @artsed08 5 років тому +1

      You are paranoid. If we ignore you, you moan. If we mention you, we're smugly imperious... What is wrong with you?

    • @elsacane8495
      @elsacane8495 5 років тому

      Pipe Tunes Thankfully !

    • @non-masturbatingtyrannosau3476
      @non-masturbatingtyrannosau3476 4 роки тому

      Most things Scottish aren't Scottish