Weird Food People Eat

[sad_winslow]

Originally Posted by Tulip

What are pork melts?

pig spleen!

one of the local markets carries some of the most.. disturbing offal. deli containers of congealed blood, shrink-wrapped packets of pig uteruses(uteri, i guess), every bit you can imagine. tongues and stomachs and chicken's feet and the whole gamut of inside bits you don't usually think to eat. i'm going to work up the guts (hah) to buy something interesting and see if i can cook it properly sometime...

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by sad_winslow

one of the local markets carries some of the most.. disturbing offal. deli containers of congealed blood, shrink-wrapped packets of pig uteruses(uteri, i guess), every bit you can imagine. tongues and stomachs and chicken's feet and the whole gamut of inside bits you don't usually think to eat. i'm going to work up the guts (hah) to buy something interesting and see if i can cook it properly sometime...

Make sure you find recipes according to your taste.
My family were proper East End (of London) and ate every part of the pig, as per Asian countries. In Grandad's time, Irish relatives still died of malnutrition-related complaints, if not actual starvation. But when I went to a restaurant with my Hong-Kong born colleague (a couple of years ago now) the food she ordered (not on the Western menu) was difficult for me to eat. It was extremely fatty, gristly and extremely salty.

This is not a criticism of Chinese food - I'm sure if you sat a rural Chinese person down to eat "hot meat pies, saveloys and trotters" they'd be as out of their depth as I was.

I have no issue eating offal, I just prefer it in a familiar form.

[sad_winslow]

I don't know that I've really *got* a taste so far, one way or the other. I haven't really eaten much organ meat and the like unless it's in a sausage, so it'll be a bit of a new world and i'll have to experiment to find something that agrees with me.

I had a bit of haggis once, but it wasn't traditionally prepared in a stomach, and probably was missing a fair amount of the inside bits. It was REALLY good, though, for even a pseudo-haggis.

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Make sure you find recipes according to your taste.
My family were proper East End (of London) and ate every part of the pig, as per Asian countries. In Grandad's time, Irish relatives still died of malnutrition-related complaints, if not actual starvation. But when I went to a restaurant with my Hong-Kong born colleague (a couple of years ago now) the food she ordered (not on the Western menu) was difficult for me to eat. It was extremely fatty, gristly and extremely salty.

This is not a criticism of Chinese food - I'm sure if you sat a rural Chinese person down to eat "hot meat pies, saveloys and trotters" they'd be as out of their depth as I was.

I have no issue eating offal, I just prefer it in a familiar form.

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