Never mind those 3 million pounds of contaminated beef or the 1.2 million pounds of contaminated sausage—Americans will soon be able to resume packing their meat-holes with haggis. As the BBC reports:

The US government said it is planning to relax the ban on imported meats which prevents the sale of haggis.

Imports of Scotland’s iconic dish were banned by the US 21 years ago because it contains offal ingredients such as sheep lungs.

The ban was introduced because of concerns about the safety of British meat during the BSE [bovine spongiform encephalopathy, aka “mad-cow disease”] scare.

Yum! For dessert, here’s some meaty wisdom from a pre-Kardashified Bruce Jenner:

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  4. I am with Fnarf on this one. The UK and other EU nations have incredibly strict regulations concerning safety of their meat supplies. In this country the government has allowed US beef “growers” to raise the beef in their own feces, feed them GMO corn and ground up pig and chicken parts, and slaughter them at such a rate that there is no way feces can’t get in and on the meat. If faced with a plate of US raised factory farm steak and a Scottish Haggis I am going with the Scottish Haggis.

  5. I’ve had haggis in Scotland and to be honest it’s fucking AWESOME!!!! But no, I wouldn’t try it after our corporate meat packers poison it.

  6. Sorry, Scots and Scot-o-philes, that report was too optimistic. The current ban on British meat is being reviewed, not yet lifted, but that doesn’t mean that the other ban on sheep’s lung is up for discussion yet.

    …though now I want to know what happened in 1971 that led to the lung prohibition.

  7. Local food safety trial attorney Bill Marler said in an interview on the Simple, Good and Tasty blog that one of the foods he and his family stayed away from was deli meats. As a fan of proscuitto and pancetta I questioned his taste. Now I think he was onto something.

  9. If you want real Scottish food, you need to prepare it right, just like a good skink dish.

    Compared to most English food (not the French, Indian, or other additions), it’s actually pretty damned tasty.

  10. The number one source of food-born illness in the US is sprouts. Eating healthy sprouts gives you a bacterial load something on the order of feltching Mr. Ed.

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