Unsurprisingly, many of the dishes that are on this menu still thrive in Scotland’s current cuisine, yet some recipes have become unpopular or modified for the taste of today’s society. However, Robert Burns’ reputation has remained untouched and is still known to be the pride of Scottish literature and an innovator of the English language. This means that Burns’ Supper is still celebrated, and that haggis has become a delicacy that is known internationally. Whiskey has also remained as popular and all Scottish Lowland distilleries that opened in the mid-eighteen hundred are still running today.  However, the Scots language has become vulnerable and there are most likely not as many speakers as there were when this postcard was made. This is due to the popularity of the English, yet words and pronunciations from Scots are still present in the Scottish-English dialect used ubiquitously in Scotland.

This postcard at first glance may seem mundane and lacks details that are common in other pieces of ephemera yet upon further inspection, one may discover that this postcard unexpectedly displays historical value and useful insight. The text in the menu displaying the Scottish diet allows us to gain a social and economic understanding of Scotland’s past as cuisine can reveal what agriculture was used to produce and also what was accessible to those in that time period. Furthermore, the text also shows the importance and impact that Robert Burns had on this time period as it references poems and prayers that he created while also centering the menu around a dish that he popularized. This postcard effectively displayed the cornerstones of the development of the Scottish Lowlands while also paying tribute to one of the greatest poets in Scottish history.