Still sold, but I can't imagine it's been give to children since the 80s or earlier.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
My point being I used to see tongue/brains/tripe/liver easily in the meat section in the 70s - I dont now. Youd have to go to a butchers to get that shit now.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:53 (six years ago) link
You can buy liver in literally every supermarket in the uk
― scrüt (wins), Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:55 (six years ago) link
Same for ox tongue I think but in the cooked meat section
― scrüt (wins), Saturday, 10 February 2018 09:01 (six years ago) link
Even though I don't eat meat, I'm strangely proud of Britain still being in the war era. It'll be a sad day when liver and jars of Princes salmon paste disappear from our shelves.
― Alba, Saturday, 10 February 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link
http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/medias/sys_master/root/h30/hc6/8987950514206.jpg
― scrüt (wins), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
Liver and kidneys are hardly outre.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:09 (six years ago) link
pretty much every uk supermarket will have this:https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/img/large/SGN1091.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:32 (six years ago) link
i don’t think australia has gammon either
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:38 (six years ago) link
and yet we have fray bentos so
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link
That it is God Emperor of Dune, not God, Emperor of Dune
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
a question on another website was wondering if americans had suet
and generally, the answer is no
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
just for birds ime
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
that was my actual comment
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
I live in a whitebread, solidly middle-class, USA suburb and it is impossible to buy tongue, liver, kidneys, brains or other offal at any of the supermarkets around here without making it a "special order" and paying well for the privilege of eating like the working class or peasantry. Even chicken livers can be hard to come by, but at least they are available without making a trek or placing an order.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
pretty sure a few of the midcentury style italian-american restaurants around here still have breaded friend chicken gizzards as an appetizer, though
not that I need em, but bless them for keeping the tradition going
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
xp Even liver and kidneys? I mean, it makes sense, just used to seeing them on sale everywhere I've lived (UK, Czech Republic, China) and just what do you do with them exactly? I heard there are container vessels going between USA and China trading chicken breasts for chicken feet, maybe something similar? Or just putting them in hot dogs?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
You can get liver anywhere, surely? (Regina, Saskatchewan, had a Liver Lovers' Club.) I honestly thought that, as far as whitebread North American culture goes, tongue and brain were delicacies for fancy people.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
liver and onions still an old person staple I think, but it might be dying with the greatest generation
― mh, Sunday, 11 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
Shame
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 11 February 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
We ate liver a bunch when I was growing up (my grandparents believed organ meats were somehow important to have every now and then). Brains & eggs was still a regional specialty in my childhood. I don't like tongue but I'm sure I've seen it in stores in recent memory (though I haven't looked).
Fancy grocery stores (Whole Foods or whatev) will surely have liver-based pates and/or foie gras still, right?
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
We can get liver pate at the non-fancy grocery store near my parrtner's apartment?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
Buying foie gras is not the same as buying bloody chunk of raw liver to cook at home.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link
has anyone pretended it is
― mh, Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
that is to say, anything branded as “liver pate”is not buying foie gras because those things are distinct even if one is technically a member of the other
― mh, Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
Yeah, no, not talking about foie gras.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
That the Modern Brazil - s/d thread isn't about some band I don't know
― haudrum, Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link
no one knows what is going on
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:05 (six years ago) link
Oxtail is up there with tongue in the cognitive dissonance stakes.
― koogs, Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:46 (six years ago) link
Is there some "other" thing that you thought oxtail was while eating it?
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:48 (six years ago) link
I was led to believe when I was younger that an American penchant for euphemism led them to call offal 'variety meats'. But I was told all sorts of things back then.
― Alba, Sunday, 11 February 2018 08:23 (six years ago) link
Like the above post about tongue it never occurred to me that the name was literal. Oxtail soup was just a kind of soup.
― koogs, Sunday, 11 February 2018 10:37 (six years ago) link
boy will u be surprised when you read up on spotted dick
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
The red and green lines on a standard eye chart aren't just dividers, they're for testing color blindness. That one only occurred to me a few years ago.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
That SOS isn’t an acronym for Save Our Ship.
― Jeff, Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
I keep forgetting and being reminded that a "401k" is actually a "401(k)" referring to the section of the tax code that defines it
for some reason I thought it was named for the recommended amount you'd want in it by retirement -- $401,000 -- which is wrong in multiple ways
― mh, Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
lmao
"sos" stands for "Sink Or Swim" iirc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
NopeIt’s just real easy to tap out in Morse code
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
lol i didn't really think it meant sink or swim, i just made that up. but i like it enough i'm considering making it an official Dad Lie
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
Wait, it's not "save our souls"?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 11 February 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
Huh
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 11 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
That "SOS" is just easy to tap out in Morse, it doesn't stand for "Save Our Souls".
― albvivertine, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
looks ,like Save our souls or whatever is more of a mnemonic though you probably don't need one for a signal that simple 3x3 signal sounds. Or 2x3 of one interspersed by a different set of 3.
― Stevolende, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
It stands for SmayOdayS.
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
Shit Oh Shit
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
SmOreS
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
I don't I knew until I was maybe in my last year of college - and despite spending a very small part of my childhood in New Orleans - that there was a religious component to Mardi Gras.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
Well given all the titties and whatnot, one could be somewhat excused there :)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 12 February 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
Election Day and Mardi Gras, two Tuesday hiolidays that really should be moved to the weekend,
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
(Funny enough, Louisiana does hold its state elections on Saturdays.)
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link