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US to lift 21-year ban on haggis
Guardian ^ | December 25, 2010 | Severin Carrell

Posted on 01/25/2010 10:54:02 AM PST by C19fan

Smuggled and bootlegged, it has been the cause of transatlantic tensions for more than two decades. But after 21 years in exile, the haggis is to be allowed back into the United States.

The "great chieftan o' the puddin-race" was one of earliest casualties of the BSE crisis of the 1980s-90s, banned on health grounds by the US authorities in 1989 because they feared its main ingredient ‑ minced sheep offal ‑ could prove lethal.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bse; burns; foodsupply; haggis; scotland
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To: BigEdLB
great work!

21 posted on 01/25/2010 11:08:55 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the voters: "Here's my DeathCARE Plan"...now....just die (quicky), please. :^)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
How many drams of scotch does one need before ingesting haggis?

Every last one of them. Plus one more.

22 posted on 01/25/2010 11:10:15 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: C19fan

This great news because if Haggis is outlawed, only outlaws........


23 posted on 01/25/2010 11:10:59 AM PST by Pajama Blogger (Pajama Power)
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To: C19fan

24 posted on 01/25/2010 11:13:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: C19fan; HungarianGypsy; glock rocks; happydogx2; SouthTexas; don-o; Grampa Dave

Warning... we have incoming


25 posted on 01/25/2010 11:14:05 AM PST by tubebender (Freeploaders = The illegal aliens on Free Republic)
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To: Nervous Tick

I did notice that it’s traditionally served with a belt of whiskey - hopefully a good single malt.


26 posted on 01/25/2010 11:15:22 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: C19fan; Tribune7

Gee I thought haggis was being marketed as scrapple in Philly.....;^)


27 posted on 01/25/2010 11:16:29 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I support Coach Mike Leach and think Gerald Meyers should be run out of Lubbock!)
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To: mouse_35

You can find raw cheddar; a place like Whole Foods Market would carry it. I believe cheese has to be aged a certain number of days to be sold in the US if it’s not made from pasteurized milk.


28 posted on 01/25/2010 11:17:23 AM PST by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: C19fan

oatmeal and organs stuffed in a stomach - just an oversized specialty sausage if you ask me. Parts is parts!


29 posted on 01/25/2010 11:17:43 AM PST by Sax
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
"How many drams of scotch does one need before ingesting haggis?"

Scotch is available in drums?

Good thing. /s

30 posted on 01/25/2010 11:18:22 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: C19fan

Boomp Ta Tha Toop!


31 posted on 01/25/2010 11:19:02 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Don't feed the trolls.)
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To: BigEdLB

Last year was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns and despite being of mostly German Swiss pedigree I decided to have make the souncy dish—bought a can exactly like that (still proudly displayed on my kitchen cabinet bulkhead) only, being a good Pennsylvania Dutchman, I stuffed it into a hog maw and baked it like we (Dutchmen) would bake a hog maw stuffed with sausage, potatos, parsley, and onions.

It was excellent!


32 posted on 01/25/2010 11:19:10 AM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

I have consumed many drams of scotch and have never once considered eating haggis.


33 posted on 01/25/2010 11:19:46 AM PST by BJClinton (0bama is not the anti-christ. Satan wouldn't be such a screw up.)
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To: techcor

ewe r so baaaaa-d


34 posted on 01/25/2010 11:20:01 AM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: C19fan

Ox Bung . .. . that’s what I was missing . ..


35 posted on 01/25/2010 11:20:51 AM PST by skeptoid (AA, UE, MBS (Piled High and Deep))
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To: Red Badger

As comedian Mike Myers once said in a movie... “I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare...”


36 posted on 01/25/2010 11:22:48 AM PST by VA_Gentleman ("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
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To: GunningForTheBuddha

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37 posted on 01/25/2010 11:23:19 AM PST by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: C19fan

There's always head cheese.

38 posted on 01/25/2010 11:23:49 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: C19fan

haggis?

What are they talking about and in what language?


39 posted on 01/25/2010 11:26:36 AM PST by dalereed
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To: C19fan

haggis, is that an ugly broad misspelled?


40 posted on 01/25/2010 11:27:16 AM PST by dalereed
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