The USDA Doesn’t Want Us to Eat Lungs [HAGGIS BAN]

munchies.vice.com ^ | July 3, 2014 / 10:22 am | By Baylen Linnekin

[Red Badger]

First the came for the haggis....................

[cripplecreek]

Well crap.

[jasbd1985]

Once you get over what you’re eating haggis is actually pretty good. I put it on crackers and it taste like sausage to me.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I always liked to read the ingredients on those pickled meat sticks at the store. Beef Lips was the main ingredient.

Take away Beef Lips and Lungs, what’s left of life.

[Red Badger]

We are safe from illegal Sheep’s Lungs, but not illegal human invaders...................

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I suppose chefs could buy some lungs from PP and use those.

BFL.

[rstrahan]

There is a lot of stuff to eat. Haggis comes on my list of ‘I am starving and there is absolutely NOTHING else to eat’

[Red Badger]

When I was a kid, in Mississippi in the 60’s, pork and beef lungs were referred to a ‘lights’..........anybody else hear that term?........................

[Robert DeLong]

Even without a ban I wouldn’t eat it. So let them come for whatever it is called. LOL

[Red Badger]

Well, you can import haggis, it just can’t contain and lungs. I suppose ‘other parts’ of the animal are okay.......................

[dware]

So let them come for whatever it is called. LOL

But what happens when they come for you, and none of us haggis eaters are here to stand with you?

[WayneS]

There goes my dinner plans...

[WayneS]

It falls under the category of ABL - Anything But Lungs

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I’ve had organ meat at Li Wah in downtown cleveland. Not my favorite, but not bad.

[Red Badger]

You can always make your own, I suppose. You can give it away, but you can’t sell it.................kinda like Prostitution Laws..............

[Islander7]

Indeed. My grandmother considered them a delicacy.

[Smittie]

My ancestors left Scotland I assume for a good meal...yuk!

[prisoner6]

Yup and I’m in Pennsylvania. In the ‘50’s my grandmother lights along with sheep brains and other stuff most people wouldn’t like. Tasted like sausage as has been mentioned.

We had some roots in PA Dutch so that may have had something to do with it.

Plus grand dad was a hunter/fisherman and there were always squirrels, game fowl, and other...stuff...from the eaves of our back porch. Ice chest not electric refrigeration.

Does anyone really believe there aren’t animal parts like that in sausage? Especially Amish sausage.

Good eating.

[Red Badger]

When I was maybe 7 years old, or so, my grandfather took me to a slaughter house. Being curious, I looked around and saw a barrel full of lungs. They looked like a bunch of balloons. I asked what they were, and he said they were ‘lights’ and “We don’t eat lights.”....................

[shotgun]

Everyone just needs to take a deep breath and relax