This, from the Guardian (UK) today:
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.
(Emphasis mine)
Turns out that when everyone flipped out over bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow, yo), the haggis, that succulent dish of onion, oatmeal, lungs, hearts, and liver, all wrapped up in a sheep’s stomach, was one of the major casualties.
Now, finally, we Americans can again dine on this delicacy.
And since we’ve gotten that out of the way, we can finally concentrate on freeing Mumia and Leonard Peltier, and getting Shoeless Joe into the Hall of Fame. I mean, now that we’re not hungry anymore.
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Somehow, I think Ima still gonna be hungry…
I never realized there was a law protecting us from the great and mysterious haggis! I just figured we Americans know what we like and what we don’t like. Hotdogs and bologna = good, haggis and black sausage = bad. Oh no, don’t tell me black sausage is next! I love Mumia and Leonard as much as the next hippie liberal, but please, God, not black sausage!