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...asks them to stand and receive the haggis. Everyone rises as the entrée of entrails - haggis is made by stuffing a sheep's heart, liver and lungs along with oatmeal and spices into the stomach lining, so that it looks like an oddly distended football - arrives on a platter, usually with a bagpipe band following behind. Someone then gives a boisterous rendition of one of Burns' poems, "Address to a Haggis." When he recites the line about cutting the food ("An cut you up wi ready slight") he stabs the haggis dramatically, holds the food aloft and concludes with...
STRASBOURG, FRANCE On rue de la Mésange, Bernardaud's Constance oval platter ($434) is a winner...
LONDON Watts' Kinnersley platter ($153) stands out because it is decorated with 22-karat gold...
...bonding: "It's every caveman for himself, clasping his meat like a hunk of mastodon, gnawing flesh that resists seductively before it yields, squirting fluids red with blood and fat over my hands and down my chin...Elbows out, the men sitting either side of me lunge for the platter to see who can sop up the most sauce with their bread and fill their triple-sized shot glasses from the bottles of Maker's Mark that line the tables, to see who can toss down the most boilermakers. This meal is not for wimps. As we tear and chew...
...portraying a Palin so true to life that even the dialogue was barely altered. In an era when one candidate can compare another to Paris Hilton, the humor is right there in reality, and all people like Colbert have to do is repackage it on a Comedy Central platter; the laughs and good ratings follow naturally. Though founded on pure humor and even some flat-out fabrications, shows like Colbert’s and Stewart’s have become an outlet for actual truth in a moment when the mainstream media can’t capitalize on lies...