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I understand that after a 45 year old ban that the USA is now seriously looking at allowing haggis to be imported!

In 1971 it became illegal to import haggis into the US from the UK due to a ban on food containing sheep lung, which constitutes 10 to 15% of the traditional recipe.[26] The situation was further complicated in 1989 when all UK beef and lamb was banned from importation to the US due to a BSE crisis.[26] In 2010 a spokeswoman for the US Department of Agriculture stated that they were reviewing the ban on beef and lamb products, but that the ban on food containing sheep lung would remain in force.[26]

As haggis cannot be exported to the United States, it is instead made there, sometimes by Scottish companies. One such uses what is stated to be the same 150-year-old recipe and ingredients as in Scotland, except that sheep lung is not used, and the casing is always artificial.[27]

Researchers found "stomach contents, lesions and bacteria" in lungs, says Amanda Eamich of the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service. Since then, the USDA has considered them an adulterated food item.

The mad-cow disease outbreak in the United Kingdom in the 1980s put sheep stomach on the "out" list as well, because sheep get a form of mad cow called scrapie.

Dear, oh dear what limited use of language from ensbb3.

It is about time the ban was lifted.

…it'll likely have to be deep-fried, to sell here…

I inform you limited brain that one of the first recipes for haggis came from down in England back in the 17th century.

..it'll likely have to be deep-fried, to sell here...

With hot  sauce and cheese

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2016-10-17, 23:18:45

…it'll likely have to be deep-fried, to sell here…

All good foods are deep-fried!

I understand that after a 45 year old ban that the USA is now seriously looking at allowing haggis to be imported!

I think I'll pass on that

I'm smiling as I am not an eating fan of haggis.

Holds eggs as in holds cards?

Turkey is the fifth-largest egg exporter in the world behind the Netherlands, United States, Poland and Germany.

The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country's egg association said on Friday.

The request from the U.S. Department of Agriculture coincides with a raft of new U.S. tariffs on countries, including in Europe, and the threat of more. President Donald Trump has also threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark hands over control of Greenland to the United States.

"We're still waiting to get more guidance from Washington on next steps, but do you have an estimate of the number of eggs that could be supplied to the United States (assuming they meet all the import requirements)," a follow-up letter to the Danish egg association in early March said.

Turkey said in February it had started exporting around 15,000 tonnes of eggs to the United States.