I love food, yes I do, yeah I spend all my money on food!
That’s true!
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Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Foods that
are Illegal in the USA.
Anyone watching stateside, let me know in the comments section below, if not, let me
know what country you are from and what your favourite food is!
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Lets start off with one we are all pretty aware of, we have the humble Kinder Egg!
Kinder Eggs hail from Italy.
They are delicious and the best part about these white and milk chocolate eggs are that
they have little toys in them.
This, unfortunately, is the issue for Merica.
The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act bans the sale of any candy that has a toy or trinket
embedded in it.
You can get fined anywhere up to 2000 dollars for trying to smuggle a Kinder Egg into America.
Three children worldwide have died from choking on Kinder Egg parts since the confectionary
came out in 1974.
Guess how many children have died from mass shootings in schools this MONTH.
9 – British Chocolate So Cadbury’s is a big deal for us brits,
some will tell you that it is a little cube of heaven, and to be honest, they’re right.
While you CAN buy something in a Cadbury’s wrapper in the States, it is not the same
as British Cadbury’s, or, real chocolate…as we call it.
Hershey bought the rights to Cadbury’s USA, which means they use a totally different recipe
with MUCH less cocoa in it.
While you can bring a dairy milk from the UK in your suitcase, it is not legal to import
or sell UK recipe chocolate in the states.
Good one Hershey.
8 – Absinthe Absinthe is pretty much an every day food
in France!
A lot like the pretend imitation Cadburys you can eat, you can drink pretend imitation
Absinthe.
Basically, the real absinthe is the kind that got 19th century musicians and artists well
and truly trollied contained an ingredient called Thujone….
Absinthe in Europe contains this all important mind bending goodie, but you can’t have
it in the USA, so no green fairy for you!
7 – Haggis Scotland’s national dish is banned in the
United States, aaaakk…nooo.
Hashtag, sorry Scotland.
To be honest, as a vegetarian, Haggis isn’t really for me anyway, but some people strongly
uphold it is delicious.
The reason it is banned in the USA is because it contains sheep’s lung, and lung as an
ingredient is not welcome in the USA.
Scotland has tried to level with the United States on the topic, but the meaty feast hasn’t
been legal for import since 1971.
6- Mexican Vanilla If you are from that states, you can’t bring
Mexican Vanilla across the boarder because more often than not, it contains a banned
ingredient called Coumadin.
Courmadin was banned by the Federal Governemnt in 1940 because of its toxicity and detrimental
effect on the human kidneys and liver.
Beware of imitation vanilla!
5 Bushmeat Honestly, I have no idea how and why anyone
would eat bushmeat, but I accept that not everyone is me and we have different tastes.
None the less, my tastes generally don’t involve risking smuggling ebola into the country.
Bushmeat is a luxury in West Africa and refers to things like Lions, bats and gorillas.
Expat West African communities crave it and some illegal trade it or buy it, however it
poses deadly threat.
4 - Beluga Caviar
Beluga caviar was so sought after, it led to overfishing of Beluga sturgeons and a decline
in the species.
Now poaching the fish is illegal and the caviar is illegal to buy in the USA, but of course,
the delicacy is available on the black market.
3 - Fresh Ackee Fruit Ackee is very popular in Jamaica, but it is
banned in the USA.
Why?
Well, eating it raw without care can result in death.
Ackee and Codfish is a popular Jamaican dish, but for those don’t know how to prepare
it could be risking their lives.
2 – Black Pudding or Blood Sausage In the UK black pudding is an everyday item
on a breakfast menu, and in South America they have something similar in the form of
Blood Sausage which, like black pudding is made with pigs blood.
America isn’t so down with this, and I totally get it…..although at number one, a HUGE
DEAL breaker for me….I am shaken and saddened ….
This is at number one because this is totally staple for me, but in the States, you can’t
eat a real brie, camembert or any Unpasteurized cheese !
COME ON AMERICA.
Unpasteurized cheese is delicious.
DELICIOUS.
In Europe we don’t tend to pasteurise a lot of cheeses because the flavour is much
richer if the milk is left raw.
In the states, you simply can’t do this.
All milk must be pasteurized
because there are some risks of bacteria spread…although the risks are VERY low