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US To Lift 21-Year Ban On Haggis
Stuffed gut lovers rejoice! Haggis is about to return to the US. The daunting dish was banned out of health fears 21 years ago during the middle of the BSE (mad-cow disease) crisis. "It was a silly ban which meant a lot of people have never tasted the real thing," said Margaret Frost, of the Scottish American Society in Ohio. "We have had to put up with the US version, which is made from beef and is bloody awful."
From Earthworm Jim
Peter: (at the International House of Haggis) Hey...this haggis stuff is great! Say, how come no one comes here, anyway? (takes a big bite of haggis)
Jim: Because haggis is made from the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep boiled in its own stomach.
Peter: (looks absolutely repulsed)
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Am I right in thinking you don't eat kidneys or liver either?
No, you are not. Liver is eaten, but kidneys I think end up in dog food.
Many organ meats are high in cholesterol, and they tend to be looked down upon as something only country folk might eat because they need to use every part of the animal or something.
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Haggis was originally banned on account of the sheep lungs in it. Witch doctors at the FDA were afraid it would spread tuberculosis. In the midst of a ton of depressing news, this is a story to celebrate. It represents another wound to the nannyocracy etouffee which is oppressing an ever larger part of the earth's population. I urge everyone to go out and sample real haggis - it is freaking awesome, especially with a good single malt whisky.
Only his tendency toward a dazed stupor prevented him from screaming aloud.
As long as its freshly caught. After a few days, it starts to go off. Weird thing too, freezing doesnt seem to work properly.
Best option, go haggis hunting yourself and get a nice big one.
Having actually tried it, I have to say that while it may be the dog's gain, I don't feel I've lost anything.
Same with lungs.
Intestines as anything more than a small component.
Or liver for that matter.
But then again, for liver and kidneys, I have a hard time buying into the idea that I'm supposed to be eating something whose biological purpose is to act as a filter for contaminants. Yum!
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Margaret Thatcher came to power in the UK on promises to get rid of or at least simplify a lot of rules hampering business.
Among these according to her (government) were the regulations on how to treat offal from sheep so as to turn it into a valuable cattle (herbivores!) feed stock.
(I don't recall the exact numbers but you'll get the drift)
Instead of treating these leftovers at 200 degC for 2 hours it now became legal to process them at 120 degC for 1 hr.
The result was that scrapie mutated and became the curse we know as BSE.
Sickening is that scrapie can be eradicated, other countries keep it outside their borders but the UK has never been interested, really a bit like that MSRA bacteria in British hospitals.
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The liver is more favourable to compare with a chemical reactor than a filter, because it doesn't really filter anything, it's just a highly vascularized organ equipped with a vast array of enzymes.
The kidneys have filtration units, but seen as a whole they are more a waste separator than a filter, nothing gets stuck in the kidney filters, they just extract metabolic waste from the bloodstream and dump it as urine.
Cooked meat is just mainly denaturated proteins, the same for kidneys and livers. Then again i'm not much for livers and kidneys either, i guess western culture is rather spoiled when it comes to nutrition.