No, not this kind. I’m talking about the Haggis Bash Hash. This was part of the food that was served after the event, but I did not stick around to partake.It was kinda interesting to see the reverence to which the Haggis above was treated. Brought into the venue on a platter accompanied by bagpipe music. Sorry the picture is so blurry, I might have been drunk.
Anyway, it was a mostly fun and interesting day. We started out with a 6.5K trail that was blessedly flat.
And it’s “on-on” in La Union!The trail meandered through fields of corn, grapes, and rice.As seems to be my bane, we had some water crossings on unstable bridges. That’s Slot Licker from Subic encouraging me on across a swaying suspension bridge.Now, this one didn’t scare me at all. Still, I almost lost my balance but made it over with dry feet.And these damn bamboo things just weren’t designed to support my weight. Well, I made it safely–praise be to the Hash Gods…That’s more like it!Where corn comes from.
Anyway, you get the idea. Typical Hash excursion, just in a new venue. Of course, the big event was still to come: the Haggis games.
Sorry the picture is fuzzy, there were 12 events in all. Sadly, I neglected to photograph most of them. We were competing against teams from Angeles City and of course, the La Union Hash.The Hash Bash Grand Master of Ceremonies…And I guess it wouldn’t be Haggis without bagpipes…The pole toss event…There were over 180 Hashers in attendance. Had to step back a bit to capture the enormity of the crowd.
We (Subic) were actually kicking ass in most of the early categories and had a comfortable lead in points. This was stuff like the races–dwarf carry (a guy carried a girl), sack races and the like. And then there came the dancing…
The Subic dancers performed brilliantly. The judges were all from La Union though and they saw fit to award us third place. Totally subjective and disappointing.
We dropped a couple of other events like pie-eating (meat pie that is). So it all came down to the tug-of-war at the end. Angeles City outweighed us healthy Subic guys on the rope by quite a bit and in the end, they proved unmovable. Ah well, it was all in good fun.
That’s me with the second place trophy. See you bastards next year for a revenge tug!
Back home in lovely Barretto again. I will say this about La Union: the women there are on average much more to my taste than what I find in my little town. The waitresses in both Bella’s and Blue Cat were just so damn cute! Not to mention, they provided outstanding service. That’s a winning combination anywhere.
That’s Anne, my personal favorite. What a smile! What an ass! She was really busy on Saturday morning and working alone. I got frustrated and went next door to Blue Cat for breakfast. She was still apologizing to me this morning. I don’t think I’d like living in La Union, but if I had a gal like this loving me there, I might just change my mind.I’m a Haggis Basher now! See you next year! You too, Anne. I hope.
On-On!
6 thoughts on “Haggis”
A shame you didn’t try the haggis, but it seems to have been a good time overall. Welcome back home.
There are those that might observe the sheer quantity of alcohol consumption and question the healthfulness of the Philippine expat lifestyle. I would not be one of them. But with all the vitamin d from the sun and all the walking and all that clean bucolic air, isn’t it also excellent restitutional therapy for those with conditions like arthritis…?
Kev, the Hash started at 1:00. There were 180 people in attendance. The feeding was going to be done through a buffet line and at 7:00 it hadn’t begun. I didn’t want to wait. Others that did said the food sucked. I doubt the haggis would have lasted till I got to the front of the line anyway.
Dan, everyone does it differently. I saw a guy drinking a beer in the restaurant at 0730 yesterday. I don’t want to be that guy! I don’t know how restitutional the lifestyle is, but whatever your ailment, it’s more fun to live with it here I suppose.
The guy drinking beer at 07:30…I want to be that guy!
If the food sucked, then the haggis probably also sucked. No quality control. They’ve should’ve hired me to cater. (Or am I having a Dunning-Kruger moment…?)
Providing good food at a Hash event would be a low bar to measure achievement. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of buffets anyway and something about this one gave me a big “nope” feeling…
A shame you didn’t try the haggis, but it seems to have been a good time overall. Welcome back home.
There are those that might observe the sheer quantity of alcohol consumption and question the healthfulness of the Philippine expat lifestyle. I would not be one of them. But with all the vitamin d from the sun and all the walking and all that clean bucolic air, isn’t it also excellent restitutional therapy for those with conditions like arthritis…?
Kev, the Hash started at 1:00. There were 180 people in attendance. The feeding was going to be done through a buffet line and at 7:00 it hadn’t begun. I didn’t want to wait. Others that did said the food sucked. I doubt the haggis would have lasted till I got to the front of the line anyway.
Dan, everyone does it differently. I saw a guy drinking a beer in the restaurant at 0730 yesterday. I don’t want to be that guy! I don’t know how restitutional the lifestyle is, but whatever your ailment, it’s more fun to live with it here I suppose.
The guy drinking beer at 07:30…I want to be that guy!
If the food sucked, then the haggis probably also sucked. No quality control. They’ve should’ve hired me to cater. (Or am I having a Dunning-Kruger moment…?)
Providing good food at a Hash event would be a low bar to measure achievement. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of buffets anyway and something about this one gave me a big “nope” feeling…