Bad Bologna Busted At Border

NewsNet5/AP ^ | 4-26-2005

[fat city]

WASHINGTON -- Over 800 pounds of Mexican bologna smuggled into the U.S. without refrigeration has been destroyed by the Agriculture Department.

It was found in suitcases aboard a bus earlier this month north of Las Cruces, N.M. The man who owned it said it was going to be sold at a swap meet or flea market.

The man entered the country legally, and is not being charged.

The Agriculture Department has approved some imports of Mexican bologna, but it must be refrigerated. Unrefrigerated bologna can create health risks such as Classic Swine Fever.

[fat city]

Immigration may be sleeping but at least the Ag Dept is on top of things. Looks like its gonna be a quiet weekend at the flea market though.

[SmithL]

As long as it's Classic swine fever and not the uncultured kind, . . .

[Cboldt]

Imagine the dog hitting on that cache! Happy tail!!

[holymoly]

Unrefrigerated bologna can create health risks such as Classic Swine Fever.

I understand the symptoms of Classic Swine Fever are truly horrific.

[Flyer]

Laugh!

[scab4faa]

Thats just gross

[rocksblues]

The man entered the country legally, and is not being charged.

Man smuggles rotten bologna into US. Meat is confiscated man is set free without charges to try again!

OK makes sense to me.

[Who dat?]

Over 800 pounds of Mexican bologna smuggled into the U.S. without refrigeration…

That’s interesting. As a youngster we made bologna. It hung in the smokehouse for at least two weeks and, while it was later refrigerated (because we *did* have a refrigerator at the time), it wasn’t necessarily needed. (It's fully cooked and has enough salt and sodium nitrate in it that it's more like jerkey than "raw" meat.)

But then, we’d also keep pot roast out on the table (covered) for 24 – 36 hours, and would also eat smoked chicken and pork ribs. (Smoked isn’t “cooked” – “smoked” is smoked. That’s anywhere from 18 – 72 hours in a 105 - 115 degree smokehouse.) Somehow we survived…

Having said that - yeah, there's weird stuff at swap meets...

[KarlInOhio]

Just causing food poisoning American meats won't cause.

[Rocky]

Man tries to smuggle balogna in the shape of a car:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1027257/posts?page=1

I guess balogna smuggling is big business.

[Redcloak]

Most people prefer Swine Fever Classic over New Swine Fever. I don't know why they even came out with New Swine Fever. It was a huge marketing mistake.

[Cobra64]

Was Slick in Mexico?

[southernnorthcarolina]

This is the wurst thing I've seen in a while. I never sausage a mess.

And isn't "bad bologna" a redundant phrase?

[fat city]

"I guess balogna smuggling is big business."

Yeah but a $10. roll will feed an illegal migrant family for a month. But its odd that they searched the bus north of Las Cruces-- probably smuggling the stuff up to Los Alamos.

[vetvetdoug]

Actually this is a very serious threat to the economy of the US. If the bologna was not prepared right it could serve as a source of Foot and Mouth Disease, African Swine Fever, Hog Cholera, and many other foreign animal diseases that would threaten the US livestock industry. One contaminated piece of bologna fed to a US hog could serve as the nidus for a very expensive outbreak. All jokes aside, this is a very serious offense.

[ErnBatavia]

800 pounds of Mexican bologna

If the food channel does a "Mexican bologna" hour, I'm outta there....

[Psycho_Bunny]

The man entered the country legally, and is not being charged.

W....................T....................F?

[cyborg]

This isn't funny at all. I had a customer who ate tainted meat brought across the border and now the whole family has some weird blood parasite.

[fat city]

And this doesn't even address the problems with tainted Latin-american imported fruits and vegetables. But a strawberry is a strawberry and lettuce is lettuce. Its just that- dude- Mexican balogna!

[Trajan88]

I will NEVER go back bologna samiches - I had enough of that crap while in college (add raman noodles to that list too).

Trajan88