Yesterday, the 5pm Dining blog passed on some hints and tips on how to host a Burns Night. It was all straight forward, sensible stuff.
Unlike today’s suggestion which is as daft as a brush.
However, we are suckers for a pun and couldn’t resist a press release whose headline contained the glorious ‘Naan O’Shanter’.
Those crazy cats at VDeep in Leith have decided to mark Burns’ birthday with an event which they are billing as ‘Scotland’s first haggis naan eating competition’.
Combining the traditional Burns night staple of haggis with Indian flatbreads, challengers will try to eat as much naan as they can in three minutes.
Hot wing champ defends title
The reigning champion of VDeep scoffing challenges is the aptly named Ally Burns, the man who scooped the top spot in VDeep’s Hot Wing Challenge back in July last year.
Realising that not everybody will want to celebrate Burns’ poetry by cramming themselves full of naan bread, there is also a three course Indian Burns Supper featuring neep pakora, haggis naan and chai cranachan alongside a selection of other curry house favourites.
An Address to the Naan and live bag piping, will round off the evening in true Burns style.
VDeep Head Chef, Spencer Barrie, thinks The Bard would approve:
‘While Burns’ work is famous for his love of women and whisky, there’s no doubt that haggis naan bread could easily have inspired poems like To a Naan or Naan O’Shanter.
‘The combination of cheese, haggis and bread has the ability to trigger something in Scottish DNA – you’ll have to try our haggis naan to understand.’
Tickets for the VDeep Burns Supper are priced at £20 per person and can be booked online: http://bit.ly/vdeepburnsnight