From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Scottish Newsgroup
Keywords: haggis
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:06:08 GMT

In article <BvnLEJ.M7s@dcs.ed.ac.uk> morna@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Morna J Findlay) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.044335.24818@netcom.com> eamon@netcom.com (Charles E Taggart) writes:
>>Barbara G. Jacob-McDowell wrote:
>>
>>>Where/how can I get hold of some haggis for this year's Burns Night,
>>>since the Scottish friend who got his mum to send him some (marked
>>>"Confectionary") for the past 2 yrs. is now in Japan--? I doubt VERY
>>>much if American butchers would supply the traditional ingredients,
>>>which is also why it's so hard to obtain here--I can't ask for it at our
>>>local Giant Eagle Supermarket.
>>
>>I heard a story recently (perhaps apocryphal) that a group of Scots and other
>>Burns aficionadoes tried to get some haggis sent over for their Rabbie
>>Burns Night celebration, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S.
>>Customs refused to admit the haggis into the country, on grounds that it
>>was "unfit for human consumption" by U.S.D.A. standards.
>
>McSweens, Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh do mail order ( vacuum-packed )
>but not to the US, as the US customs regulations don't let it in. I think
>most countries have similar rules, you're not supposed to bring
>sausages or "cooked meats" into the UK.
>
>
>They didn't know if the US would let veggie haggises ( YUM!) in.
                                             ^^^^^^^^

Hagii?  9-)

Here's something that was posted a year or so ago though:

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Article 5029 of soc.culture.celtic:
From: lbreid@athena.mit.edu (Lynn B Reid)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: How to order a Haggis Was: Re: Lard n Haggis
Date: 4 Jan 91 17:18:33 GMT
Reply-To: lbreid@athena.mit.edu (Lynn B Reid)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Status: OR

In response to all the Americans belating the difficulty of finding haggis,
I post our solution.  Kearny, N.J., is a hotbed of expat- Scots.  There are
several Scottish butchers, shops, bakers, and some good chippies there.
We buy our haggis frozen when we visit N.J., but two of the butchers
(that I know of) will also ship via U.P.S.  Contact:

Royal Market
Scottish Butcher and Food Imports
576 Kearny Ave.
Kearny, N.J.  07032
(201) 991-0408
Proprietors:  Charles Davidson and Claude Neilson

Stewarts of Kearny
338 Kearny Ave.                      also a branch in Bricktown, N.J.
Kearny, N.J.  07032
(201) 991-1436
Proprietor:  Edward A. Stewart, Manager

Both butchers carry an assortment of 
pies, bridies, sausage rolls; black, white, and fruit
pudding; Irish/English/Scottish Links, Square Slice Sausage, Gammon, etc.
They also carry a limited assortment of British and Scottish delicacies:
Tunnocks' Caramel Wafers, Snowballs, Irn Bru, Ambrosia Cream Rice pudding,
and the like.

Personally, we get our haggis and black pudding from Royal Market and
our pies from Stewarts.  I can unhesitatingly recommend either shop; the
proprietors are very helpful and more than willing to fill special orders.
We also find that all of our favorites freeze well (except the Tunnocks, 
which never make it past the borders of New Jersey....).

Hope this is a help.
 
-- 
Lynn B. Reid
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA  02139

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