American Haggis

[zebo-the-fat]

"Haggis is among the best foods known to man. "

Depends if it's a highland haggis or a lowland haggis, the highland beasty is the more savage creature, it lives on the sides of mountains and has longer legs on one side to let it stand level on the slopes. It is usually caught by chasing it anticlockwise around the mountain, this makes it fall over so that it can be caught in a haggis net!

[John V]

The only good haggis
Cars and trucks need gasoline

[Jackalope]

"Haggis is among the best foods known to man. "

Depends if it's a highland haggis or a lowland haggis, the highland beasty is the more savage creature, it lives on the sides of mountains and has longer legs on one side to let it stand level on the slopes. It is usually caught by chasing it anticlockwise around the mountain, this makes it fall over so that it can be caught in a haggis net!

Well, what do you know... that's exactly how we catch American mountain snipe - except we catch 'em in a gunny sack.

Good eatin' too.

[Minimalist]

On this point I might agree with the fucking vegetarians.

Yet other innards are okay to be sold. It doesn't really make much sense to me. Lungs are bad, but intestines and livers are damn fiiiine.

Um...you eat 'em.

[Cato]

I had to look this up. Apparently the original lung prohibition was enacted in the early 70s. As late as 2011 there was a lobby to have the prohibition rescinded. The excuse given was that it wasn't fit for human consumption. This is amusing to me for two reasons:

1. Humans consume sheep lung daily with no worries.
2. Americans eat Rocky Mountain Oysters daily.

[Jackalope]

Scotsmen consume sheep lung daily with no worries.

Fixed that for ya.

At any rate, it does appear pretty silly. Humans have been consuming pretty much every part of sheep, cows, etc for quite some time. For the most part, if it can be prepared in a way that makes it relatively palatable (relative to the diner's hunger level), non-toxic, and nutritious, it's on the menu. USAians seem to me to be far more squeamish(1) about such things than Europeans, and certainly more so than developing nations(2).

I mean, for fucks sake, people in the US(3) consume stomach and intestine, which as a matter of function are in constant contact with some fairly disgusting(4) and hazardous(5) substances. Yet, an organ that facilitates blood-oxygen exchange is unfit for consumption?

Considering we breathe oxygen from the air, and some cultures routinely consume animal blood (leading me to conclude that neither substance is fundamentally unsafe for humans), it seems a tad disingenuous, unless there is something different about the organ in question that makes it unsafe where other organs are not - which seems unlikely.

Barring any additional information, I can only conclude that the ban is either very stupid(6), or there's more to this than has been revealed(7).

(1) Myself included - though it certainly doesn't bother me that other people eat the stuff. Oh, and pass the rib-eye steak, please.
(2) e.g. The United Kingdom /troll
(3) People other than me, that is.
(4) Shit.
(5) Acid.
(6) I still ain't too interested in eatin' the stuff.
(7) e.g. Payola.

P.S. After dislodging my tongue from my cheek, I do have to admit that should I ever find myself in the vicinity of Scotland, I will try this "delicacy".