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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered Vice President Mike Pence some dietary suggestions Thursday as the two talked about possible trade deals post-Brexit.

“We’re not too keen on that chlorinated chicken,” Johnson told ​the veep during their meeting in London, referring to​ the process the US uses to treat chicken carcasses to clean them of bacteria, including salmonella.

The practice was banned by the European Union in 1997.

Johnson also used the occasion to mock Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has been thwarting his Brexit moves in Parliament.

“We have a gigantic chlorinated chicken of our own, here, on the opposition benches​,” Johnson told Pence during their talks at 10 Downing Street.

Johnson, who is determined to have the United Kingdom pull out of the European Union on Oct. 31 even without an exit deal, called on Pence to tear down “barriers” to trade and suggested that US consumers should dine on more British products.

“It is still the case that, you know, the United States of America, the people of the United States of America, don’t eat any British lamb or beef or haggis from Scotland,”​ he said, referring to the dish prepared with sheep or calf intestines.

​Pence said the US is “ready and willing and able” to discuss trade deals with Britain.

He also said he ​”respects the will of the people” who voted in June 2016 to leave the trading bloc.

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