It sounds gross, but is actually pretty decent. I've been to Scotland a couple times and had it.
Once we actually get this car to a 24 Hours of Lemons race we will be in the correct attire and I'll serve haggis.
I'll just have to be creative...
Posted in 2015: TRADITIONAL Scottish haggis has been banned in the USA for 44 years, for reasons that most people have forgotten.
IMPORTS of traditional Scottish haggis have been banned in the United States since 1971.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has long objected to one of the key ingredients in haggis – sheep’s lung.
No food for human consumption, whether made locally in the USA or imported from overseas, can contain sheep’s lung.
Authentic haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep’s pluck – the heart, liver and lungs – minced with onions, spices and oatmeal. This is often encased in a casing made of the animal’s stomach.
For aficionados and fans of Robert Burns, the haggis is the ‘great chieftain o’ the pudding race’.
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However American food watchdogs disagree.
Their long-standing reluctance to allow sheep lungs into human food was reinforced in 1971 with the emergence of ‘Scrapie’ in sheep and other cattle.
However there is no scientific evidence to indicate that scrapie poses a risk to human health or indeed evidence that it has ever passed into our food chain.
In the 1990s the US also banned beef imports from the EU following the spread of Bovine SpongiformEncephalopathy (BSE), mad cow disease, in Europe.
But earlier this year America lifted the beef ban.
Douglas Scott, chief executive from the Scottish Federation of Meat Traders, says: "There is no evidence anywhere that haggis could pose a risk.
"Scottish butchers cannot send haggis to customers relatives in the Units States like to do across Europe and Ireland, despite the demand for this iconic product."
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