[MadMitch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12259126

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[cripplecreek]

We can’t make our own haggis?

[Tax-chick]

Scotland ping!

[paulycy]

How many Americans even know it’s illegal to make haggis?

How much do the Scots expect their sales to increase if the ban is lifted?

Why isn’t this in Breaking News?

[markomalley]

Haggis Could Vanish Due to Climate Change

Yes, haggis—minced sheep organs mixed with onions, oatmeal, and spices, and then boiled inside the sheep’s stomach—could be the latest victim of global warming.

A vital ingredient to make the traditional Scottish dish is becoming increasingly hard to find: sheep lung. Many sheep have been infected with Lung Worm, which does not affect the rest of the sheep’s body, does render the lungs inedible.

“Lung worm has been at a very low level and did not cause serious problems in sheep but with the changing climate and availability of the parasite it is becoming a problem,” said Sandy Clark, a veterinarian at the Scottish Agricultural College in Thurso.

Would be a horrible loss...

[Lazamataz]

Why is Haggis illegal?

This country has gone to hell, one law at a time.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

That America customs officer from a few years ago during the BSE crisis had the right idea. Confiscate it off anyone carrying one, take it outside, and riddle it with bullets...lol..

[P.O.E.]

Just in time for a “Burns Supper”

Address to a Haggis.

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang’s my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hudies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An’ cut ye up wi’ ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reeking, rich!

Then horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
‘Bethankit!’ hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi perfect scunner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As fecl;ess as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Tho’ bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit.

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll make it whistle;
An’ legs, an’ arms, an’ heads will sned
Like taps o’ thrissle.

Ye pow’rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware,
That jaups in luggies;
But if ye wish her gratfu’ prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!

[Graybeard58]

I swear I thought that title said “baggies ban”.

It’s very early but still, nothing surprises me any more.

[tellw]

There was US haggis in this movie.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Let me get this straight.....

We cannot slap tariffs on Communist Chinese goods....we cannot seal the Mexican border to prevent Illegal Aliens and Drug Cartels from entering....

But we can ban Haggis?

[KosmicKitty]

You can’t get real sufrite anymore either. You can get the heart, but not the lungs. And the lungs were nice a spongey and soaked up the tomato sauce.

[cajuncow]

As this talk of internal organs makes me want to go out and skin some hog intestines and make Cajun debris aka cowboy stew. Not.

[Sparky1776]

Address tae the Haggis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8l2m3_2Xjg

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Alien pods that get you while you sleep.

I blame the blancmanges.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCNltgrs1U

[Monitor]

I’m sorry, but the whole Scottish diet looks like something devised on a bet, as in, I bet $20 you can’t eat this without puking.

[Beowulf9]

Haggis is banned?

[kalee]

ping

[Aleya2Fairlie]

I actually like haggis if it’s properly prepared. The ingredients are no more repugnant than those in souse (or headcheese). I used to be fond of that too when freshly prepared. However, the commercial version is full of cartilage and not anything like the original product.

I would much rather have a good haggis than a “mystery meat” taco.