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The Sporkful

Inside The World Of Food Smuggling

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Remember that time you bought an apple in Canada or a piece of cheese in France and “forgot” to declare it when you crossed the border into the U.S.? That makes you a food smuggler. It can feel pretty innocent, but sometimes, food smuggling can have big consequences.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So my uncle asked me if he thought I could find a way to get my haggis to him.

0:07.2

This is Paul Bradshaw, he's Scottish Canadian.

0:09.4

He grew up in Toronto eating the traditional Scottish dish haggis.

0:13.3

About 10 years ago his uncle in Florida asked Paul to mail him a haggis from Canada because

0:18.8

some of the animal parts you need to make traditional haggis can't be brought into the

0:22.7

US.

0:23.8

So Paul devised a plan.

0:26.6

I froze a giant haggis.

0:28.7

I wrapped that in aluminum foil thinking that that would help keep the cold in.

0:32.8

Then I put it in a styrofoam shipping cooler.

0:35.5

But then I figured that would be a red flag if I shipped it in that cooler so I put the

0:38.5

styrofoam cooler inside of another box and then just put a label on it saying that it

0:42.7

was clothing and kind of hoped they didn't scan it.

0:46.2

That's how I got into smuggling haggis.

0:55.0

This is the Sporkfall, it's not for food, it's for eaters, I'm Dan Pashman.

0:59.0

Each week on our show we obsess about food, so there are more about people.

1:02.5

And today I'm talking with Sporkfall producer Andres O'Hara who's got a story he's been

1:05.9

working on handraice.

1:06.9

Hey Dan.

1:07.9

So summer's almost here, tons of Americans will be traveling abroad soon either to see

1:12.2

family and friends or just to explore new places.

1:15.6

And do you know what that means?

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