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Article: Haggis ban gives expats a taste for smuggling
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- January 12, 2001
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A WORLDWIDE ban on the importation of haggis has forced
aficionados of the dish into becoming smugglers.
Macsween of Edinburgh, which is famed for its haggis, has been
inundated with requests for secret parcel drops abroad.
Subject to an import ban due to its use of offal in the
ingredients, haggis is now the target of smugglers.
Customers in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe cannot get
haggis on their own supermarket shelves.
Expatriates are clamouring for haggis for Burns Suppers on
January 25 and are resorting to stuffing them in suitcases or
arranging secret parcel drops.
Refusing to see a 200-year-old ceremony succumb to the 21st
century's taste for food scares, lovers of haggis ...