Question

Hosts of one ritual dedicated to this person read a text beginning “Nice seeing your honest, chubby face” before serving a dish jokingly attributed to an animal with unequally long legs. This failed farmer abandoned a plan to emigrate to Jamaica after the success of the Kilmarnock Volume. People cross their arms while singing the last verse of a song on January 25th (*) “suppers” named for this person. (10[1])A “great Chieftain of the Puddin’ race!” is the subject of this author’s poem “To a Haggis.” This author adapted a folk song into a poem that asks if “acquaintance should be forgot,” which is traditionally sung after the dropping of the ball in Times Square on New Years. For 10 points, name this Scots-language author of “Auld Lang Syne.” ■END■

ANSWER: Robert Burns [accept Burns suppers]
<Michael Bentley, Other - Other Academic and General Knowledge&gt; ~25384~ &lt;Editor: Ganon Evans>
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2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y1100%0%0%67.00