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No, I've lived (born and raised) in Scotland for 22 years and never once heard of this practice. I'm not even sure what 'mead' is.
We leave cookies and milk for Santa, sometimes Rudolf even gets a carrot.
Well, many traditions have certainly started to disappear in modern times, being largely replaced by European or American ones.
While I'm not too surprised that your family has not practiced leaving out haggis and mead for Father Christmas, since that really hasn't been common since the WW II era, I am deeply concerned that you don't even know what mead is. I'm assuming that you must have been raised in front of a TV, enjoying a steady diet of BBC-produced drivel, serving to eradicate Scottish culture and replace it with that of the UK and/or EU.
Mead, is, of course, the drink of the gods. While often compared to beer, it it better described as spiced honey wine. I suggest that you drop in on your local pub and try some -- they usually keep in on tap during the holiday season.
My Grandmother is from Scotland and she would tell us every Christmas how they would make extra haggis for Santa and that they would leave a full tankard of mead and the hot haggis next to the fire place before they would go to bed. Unfortunately when she and her family immigrated to the United States, they could not make their traditional Christmas haggis because some of the ingredients (the sheep lungs) were banned for health reasons. To this day she makes her haggis with the slight modification of a different casing.
My Great Grandmother told my Grandmother when she was young that the haggis was prepared for Santa to keep him warm and well fed for his long and difficult travel in the harsh weather around the world. The mead was meant to keep him warm and cheery.
Mead is an alcoholic beverage made from honey. In Persia, it was traditional for the husband's (maybe wife's... ?) father to supply the newly-wed couple with as much mead as they needed for one lunar month after the wedding. Hence the term honeymoon.
Udo, I learn something new from this site every day! Thanks for enlightening even a crusty old fact checker like me!
if your crusty you might want to get that checked out.....
Posted By: JoshuaU490if your crusty you might want to get that checked out.....
Trust me, its an incurable disease that comes with age...
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