‘This sounds absolutely disgusting and I would never consider eating it,’ one reader writes in response to the article on Twitter
CNN has divided its readers with its latest headline for an article on haggis, a Scottish food that’s banned in the United States.
In its headline, CNN described haggis as a “boiled bag of offal [that] is banned in the US”. However, according to the publication, “in Scotland, it’s a fine-dining treat”. The article went on to describe the food, including its texture and spice, and the history of it over the years.
The piece also specified the ingredients in haggis, such as a lung, liver, and heart of a sheep. From there, those parts are traditionally mixed with oatmeal, onion, beef strut, and other ranges of spices. Although this isn’t necessarily the case anymore, haggis were previously made by stuffing those mix of ingredients “into the stomach of a recently slain sheep and boiling the lot to a state of palatability”, per CNN.
The food has also been banned in the US, since the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) declared back in 1971 that animals’ lungs were not fit for human consumption. This ban also stopped the selling of livestock lungs for food.
After CNN’s article was shared on Twitter, there have been mixed responses to the headline, with some people expressing that haggis shouldn’t be eaten.
Source: Inde Pendent
