Offal Eating - C/D, S/D?

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I'm scared...

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, chitlins!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Ewewewewewewewewew. I don't eat glands.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Brains! Dad used to eat lambs brains in white sauce on toast. Not that bad, really.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

trayce's dad, yesterday

http://www.spookshop.com/images/hanging/zombie.jpg

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahah I was waiting for a zombie joke ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't pass up this thread without a mention of MENUDO! No, not the boyband that kick-started the career of Mr. Ricky "Shake your bon-bon" Martin, but the really flavorful soupy meal of that name. Really lovely stuff.

My parents used to eat all manner of things, including tongue, liver, tripas (intestines), and brains. My mom still loves liver and tripas, and I've actually gone through and tried tripas before (and disliked its flavor, but ah well).

Still... brains... ugh. Double ugh. "I'm getting sick here" ugh.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

classic

dee, tripas , is tripe not intestines, intestines is what you fill to make sausages, at least if you are doing it properly. Tripe is the feathery membrane that hold the organs in.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Dee, I'm with you on menudo. So good. And far as I can tell, it's the best remedy for a hangover EVER.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Thursday, 29 April 2004 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. A life without sauteed chicken livers with lemon and thyme is no life at all.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 29 April 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

More testicles mean more iron!

i've had marrow, spleens, livers, hearts, kidneys, tongues, and gizzards and I can't say that any of them are tasty. the livers taste the worst, and the hearts and gizzards are really chewy and just dont sit right with me. my parents love the stuff, including that red flappy stuff on top of a chicken's head.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the best stuff to eat in the world, all of it, especially liver.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I was offered this in Athens last week. It wasn't sold to me well. "What sort of meet is it exactly?" I asked. "It's where the shit goes", I was told. Appetising.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't make boudin without pork liver. Can't make dirty rice without chicken liver. Classic.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep OTM as usual re: food.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a vegetarian, but I can't see dissing offal eating as anything other than nasty classism.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops, sorry about the size.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i grew up being fed things like fried liver, tripe, headcheese, and giblet soup by my lunatic czech grandmother. if i tired of those delicacies, my lunatic russian grandmother was at the ready with gizzards, kishka, and tongue. at the time i didn't think there was anything particularly gross about any of it (except for headcheese, GOOD GOD WHY), but as i learned more what things actually were i went off a lot of it. these days, the only offal i eat is monkfish liver at japanese restaurants.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

An English lady expressed disgust that cervelles were being served for dinner, "How can you eat that knowing where it comes from?"

Her French host said simply, "Why Madam, have an egg instead."

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Being adventurous with food - classic

Being thrifty with the animals we kill - classic

Making 'strange' things taste delicious - classic

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Do the americans really call offal 'variety meats'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never heard that term used. 'organ meats,' maybe.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That's even more gross than 'offal'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not a very pretty topic.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Over the last couple of years people are taking less time to prepare food - they are money-rich but time- poor. They will just bung something in the microwave for five minutes."

I have never used a microwave to bung anything. Honest.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"from the rooter to the tooter"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 April 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a bit of a lightweight, and don't go much further than liver, kidney, tripe, haggis, black pudding, chitterling, tongue and heart on a fairly regular basis. I get giblets with my goose at Christmas, but don't generally do anything more adventurous than make gravy with them.

That said, I'd love to try more things - particularly since I inherited a wartime recipe book that has an unbelievable amount of offal recipes (including an astonishing looking lamb's brain sauce). I just need to find a better butcher, I guess.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

is it just me, or is headcheese the most revolting name for a food any of you have ever heard? what is it lauren - are you talking about brawn? (boiled, spiced pig head set in its own gelatin)

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that's the stuff. it's really one of the foulest things ever, little bits and pieces of pig snout and brain and whatever else.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 April 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

my grandad used to love it. i used to think it was disgusting, but having eaten some a while ago from a small country butcher i know, i have to say it's pretty amazing. i think it's one of those things where you either need not to care about what you're eating or just not know. the secret ingredient in the great one i had was apparently mace.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 30 April 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

how is it more disgusting to eat an organ than muscle tissue?
in each case you are devouring the flesh of a once-living thing. is it b/c we have all grown accustomed to the texture of chicken, but most of us are not familiar with liver etc? this concept is confusing to me

it seems to me either yr into eating animals or yr not

― Walter Pate On 'sweetness' (jdchurchill), Monday, 22 March 2010 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

Well, pardon my potential ignorance, but isn't the make-up of certain organs (thalmus, kidney, liver, etc.) much different than that of muscle tissue? And, therefore, isn't the manner and amount of retention of "stuff" in those tissues different? Like, aren't the kidneys and liver the filtration devices for the body?

Not that this matters - I could crush some foie gras with a vengeance today. I'm just saying that I understand some people's hesitation in consuming glandular materials.

I also love it, because it means more for me. Woot!

― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 22 March 2010 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

I don't think it's any more disgusting. But it is a matter of privilege, being able to throw away part of the animal, so I suppose some class disgust can creep in.

What about blood? I rocked some morcilla de Burgos tonight here in Madrid.

― You don't wear a vagina on your chest....think about it (Euler), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

It's all good.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:35 (sixteen years ago)

kidneys do filter yr blood
but the waste goes to urine, and is not kept there.
livers are much more complicated tho

― Walter Pate On 'sweetness' (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

this shld probably be on i love cooking but w/e... anyone have a good recipe for sweetbreads?

― just sayin, Monday, 14 February 2011 12:06 (fifteen years ago)

butter and sugar sandwiches are the way to go for sweet breads

― instead of a brain in the subway mila kunis going down on you (silby), Monday, 14 February 2011 17:44 (fifteen years ago)

six years pass...

a place downtown serves brain tacos and thinking about going

anyone ever tried it?

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 March 2017 16:06 (nine years ago)

are they actually brain (sesos) or cabeza?

― mh 😏, Monday, 27 March 2017 19:58 (nine years ago)

I've had tacos de sesos, they were kinda gross

― samovars are trying to steep (wins), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:10 (nine years ago)

they say brain

there are a few places in downtown los angeles

my buddy from blandcouver is comin and i wanna treat him to some authentic mexican ish

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:15 (nine years ago)

the grosser the better wins

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:16 (nine years ago)

they don't have a lot of flavor ime so it's all about the toppings. consistency of hard scrabbled eggs.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:29 (nine years ago)

that sucks

so youre telling me theyre not anything special

cilantro/onions are good tho

will throw in some hot sauce or whatever they have i guess

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:33 (nine years ago)

pretty much yeah nothing special . Many more flavorful options at the taco shop im sure

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:36 (nine years ago)

i usually eat more than 6 tacos so well have plenty of other choices

theres some really good mexican in la

might take him to tepeyac or my more americanized favourite (tere's -- have a soft spot for em)

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:53 (nine years ago)

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