That was hilarious! One of the feats, lol!!

Here's the very non-traditional drink I'm having for New Years. I thought I'd share.

Black Velvets

2 cans Guiness
1 bottle champagne

Pour equal parts Guiness and champagne into a champage flute. Drink while bubbly.
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On a more traditional note, I was reading a Celtic Cookbook last night to see what the traditional foods were for Midwinter/Yule. They ate a lot of songbirds, especially pigeons because the author basically said they were too stupid to fly south for the winter. *g* They also ate a few potato dishes including one where they're fried with bacon and lard, minted peas, green beans with almonds, spiced oranges (if you say so, but the recipe looks yummy....) sweetbreads and nuts.

There was one description of a feast, late period I think but still interesting.
First Course-soup
Second Course-eels, oysters, small fishes
Third Course-songbirds
Fourth Course-goose
Fifth Course-sweetbreads (litterally sweet breads, not the organ sweetbreads they fed people with no teeth)
Sixth Course-nuts