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1st time flyer: Can I Take fajitas across the Border?

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Hey ClutchFans,

I'll be going to Mexico City pretty soon to visit family and I want to show them some of our cuisine. Anyways, I want to take 10 pounds of marinated fajita and maybe a brisket to smoke.

Do you guys know if it's one of the prohibited items to bring. I'll be flying Aeromexico through Bush airport.I'm thinking of taking through a cooler. Everything I found online and through calling Aeromexico has been real generic information. I see no mention of uncooked meat.

The times I've gone to Mexico I haven't been able to find these delicacies.

Bobrekftw! Thanks. What a bummer but rules are rules.

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you can't take meat back to the US, unless it's from Ireland. It will get confiscated at Customs...those bastids

true story (albeit it's what Customs told me in the '90s)

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I found this with a 5 second google search:
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/border-crossing-food-restrictions-63920.html

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Disregard bobrek nailed it.

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heypartner said: ↑

you can't take meat back to the US, unless it's from Ireland. It will get confiscated at Customs...those bastids

true story
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I had all of my fancy dried, packaged jerky from Africa confiscated in Atlanta. I told the customer guy "you'd think that dried, packaged, sealed jerky would be OK". He replied "yep". They probably enjoyed a jerky feast of warthog, kudu, and antelope.

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bobrek said: ↑

I had all of my fancy dried, packaged jerky from Africa confiscated in Atlanta. I told the customer guy "you'd think that dried, packaged, sealed jerky would be OK". He replied "yep". They probably enjoyed a jerky feast of warthog, kudu, and antelope.
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yeah, I'm pretty sure they ate my $100/lb Spanish Lomo Iberico, too. bastids

Yeah the rule I was told by Customs in the '90s is the origin country must have stricter FDA laws than the US. Only Ireland does, because it's an island.

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I've bring jerky and other cooked meats in all the time. I even claim it.

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back in the glorious early 90s when I would visit my cousins, they would ask me to bring them dr. pepper. it wasn't sold in any supermercado in central america. that's all. rico story, bro-der.

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I've bring jerky and other cooked meats in all the time. I even claim it.
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From Africa?

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bobrek said: ↑

From Africa?
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Asia.

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I've only brought prescription drugs and candy.

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rockbox said: ↑

I've bring jerky and other cooked meats in all the time. I even claim it.
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I'm pretty sure you can't bring meats from Asia.

Sounds like you didn't get stopped.

Did Customs stop you? Most times I walk right through with no one asking me anything.

When they stop you, you can't have meat or fruit.

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heypartner said: ↑

I'm pretty sure you can't bring meats from Asia.

Sounds like you didn't get stopped.

Did Customs stop you? Most times I walk right through with no one asking me anything.

When they stop you, you can't have meat or fruit.
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But I declared it and they ask me what I have.

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Beef and beef products from a country not known to be infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) generally are enterable. However, like all other food items the meat must be unopened and commercially label indicating the country of origin and meat type.
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https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/de...vMTQ0NTczNzQ0MS9zaWQvSEppVlFOem0=/suggested/1

It looks like bringing in beef from Asian countries is okay.

http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/official-disease-status/bse/list-of-bse-risk-status/

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rockbox said: ↑

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/de...vMTQ0NTczNzQ0MS9zaWQvSEppVlFOem0=/suggested/1

It looks like bringing in beef from Asian countries is okay.

http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/official-disease-status/bse/list-of-bse-risk-status/
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thx for this. Seems like maybe I was traveling in the early '90s at the very outbreak of media hype wrt BSE.

Yet, also looks like NIH has been questioning Asia since 2003.

<b>Risk management of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in Asia</b>

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12793782

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Wait, they don't have fajitas in Mexico?

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Jontro said: ↑

Wait, they don't have fajitas in Mexico?
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OP should consider he won't find "fajitas" in Mexico City, but there is fantastic food there.

I can give you the name of one of the World's Best restaurants for Mole, if you are interested. You can probably bring a sealed jar of that back. I'd pay you for that.

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Mexico invented Mole like 500 yrs ago.

This is the best place I've encountered in Mexico City,,,the center of Mole (or nearby Puebla)

http://www.pujol.com.mx/

See if you can bring back a jar, OP!

A Mole mule, we could say!!!

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Put the fajita meat in condoms and swallow it.

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The Real Shady said: ↑

Put the fajita meat in condoms and swallow it.
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Ding.

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