Haggis?

**Tattoo Bradley** · 1st July 06, 11:12 AM

Does anyone have a good place/website to mail-order a traditional Sheep Haggis from here in the states?

**Southern Breeze** · 1st July 06, 11:37 AM

I haven't tried the lamb but their vegeterian haggis is good.

http://www.caledoniankitchen.com/cat...aaa78e25c5fe97

**Tattoo Bradley** · 1st July 06, 11:45 AM

THank you very much!

It looks like the Lamb is out of stock right now. But, I'm very impressed with the price. I thought it'd be more than that.

**cormacmacguardhe** · 1st July 06, 03:08 PM

Any of the Haggis you order from overseas will be missing an essential ingredient, the USDA won't let any food product into this country that contains sheeps lungs. They say that it is not fit for human consumption.

**Tattoo Bradley** · 1st July 06, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by cormacmacguardhe

Any of the Haggis you order from overseas will be missing an essential ingredient, the USDA won't let any food product into this country that contains sheeps lungs. They say that it is not fit for human consumption.

Yes, I quickly discovered that. So, I figured I may as well try to find it in the states. No need to go through the hassles of overseas orders when it's going ot be essentially the same thing (Haggis minus lungs.)

**Hamish** · 1st July 06, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by Tattoobradley

Yes, I quickly discovered that. So, I figured I may as well try to find it in the states. No need to go through the hassles of overseas orders when it's going ot be essentially the same thing (Haggis minus lungs.)

Oh, poor little things! How are they to breathe if they're minus their lungs?!!

**Raphael** · 1st July 06, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by cormacmacguardhe

Any of the Haggis you order from overseas will be missing an essential ingredient, the USDA won't let any food product into this country that contains sheeps lungs. They say that it is not fit for human consumption.

What is wrong with Sheeps' lungs?

**Tattoo Bradley** · 1st July 06, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by Raphael

What is wrong with Sheeps' lungs?

I'm not 100% sure, but I was discussing it with the dad today. He seemed rather certain that it has to do with the blood and not the meat. He understood that a certain amount of blood is to be removed from the meat. And lungs by nature are filled with little passage ways and such, thus retaining the blood and making near impossible to fully remove the necessary amount. I don't know, we could be WAY off base. But, it seemed as good a guess as any! Do we have any Xmarks butchers??

Originally Posted by Hamish

Oh, poor little things! How are they to breathe if they're minus their lungs?!!

What a "HAM"

**Wompet** · 2nd July 06, 06:17 AM

Originally Posted by cormacmacguardhe

... the USDA won't let any food product into this country that contains sheeps lungs. They say that it is not fit for human consumption.

Actually, it's not the fact that haggis contains sheeps' lungs, or rather, sheeps' lungs are not the only problem ingredient. The UK is considered an at risk country for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, ie "mad cow," so no food products containing bovine, caprine, ovine (there's your sheep), cervid or camellid meat or by-products are going to be allowed to enter the US.
Canada is considered low-risk for BSE, so such products can enter from Canada - but only in commercial shipments, accompanied by health certificates issued by a CFIA vet. So no Canadian haggis either.
Well, there is the loophole for venison haggis, but I won't get into that here.

Gary,
who works for the portion of USDA that was assimilated by DHS

**Steeplechase** · 2nd July 06, 10:04 AM

I don't know about sheep lungs, but I do recall in my youth that swine lungs (lites) were banned. It was required that we turn in the lungs to the local health dept the lungs from farm butchered hogs. I think there was a parasite in the lungs. My grandfather wasn't pleased as he loved lites, although he still had his second favorite swine dish; brains which he added to scrabbled eggs.