Deep-fried Spicy Lung

#8.Stick a bud of dried clove into the cig for the same flavor.That what the locals who roll their own cigs with store bought cheap tobacco and dried palm leaf do in the villages.
Might even work with any dirt cheap factory produced commercial fags without filter tips.

Lungs are not allowed to be sold for human consumption in the US, although it can be used in pet food, sold to pharmaceutical companies, or exported. I'm having a terrible time figuring out why, but it's right there in regulations.

Apparently, some hole-in-the-wall Chinese & Mexican restaurants will have it, under the radar.

The ban on lungs as food went into effect in 1971
>Researchers found "stomach contents, lesions and bacteria" in lungs, says Amanda Eamich of the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service.

That quote is from an article about Scotland lobbying the US to allow imports of real haggis. The Federal Register that would have more information on the researchers & their findings, is not available online.

That's not much of a reason. Stomach contents are presumably found in stomachs, but hog maw and cow tripe are perfectly legal. Bacteria are everywhere. Lungs are not the only organs that may have lesions.

I found one reference that said they found "a few abscesses." But I'm not about to track down the fiche at a depository library & look up the Federal Register. In the late 1960s, when the work was presumably done, tuberculosis might have been a concern.

A more recent finding was embolisms containing brain tissues in pulmonary arteries "caused by the stunning process used at slaughter." This was of concern for Mad Cow reasons.

One of the accompaniments of a good Surabaya 'rawon' is deep fried, sliced lung. It's quite good.

Have eaten a soup with pieces of cow/buffalow lungs floating around in a "Soto Makassa" spicy,aromatic stew together with tripe,liver,brain,,intestines and ligaments.
The roadside "warung" selling this single dish in the city Makassa,Suluwesi was packed with customers tucking into the dish.
Also tried buffalow lungs cooked in yellow curry(gulai) with tumeric,cloves,cumin,cracked pepper corn with coconut cream in Padang,West Sumatra.

I tried - Catering in London. Absolutely vomited for days. Expensive too. Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.