Weird Food People Eat - Page 3

wolf · 11-27-2010, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

We use pig's spleen in faggots.

Does that involve having carnal knowledge of the organ? And does the sex of the swine from which it originated matter?

wolf · 11-27-2010, 11:50 AM

A lot of people don't like it, but ...

I eat scrapple with relish.

I mean I like it a lot.

I hate relish. Nasty pickly stuff.

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-27-2010, 11:23 PM

Depends on the relish.

I can't startle anyone here with grilled-cheese-peanut-butter-and-green-relish sandwiches. I've tried, but it seems most Dwellars regard them as simply down-home and not bad.

Cheese and Major Grey-type chutney... that's good, grilled or cold. Cold it's almost a Ploughman's Lunch.

DanaC · 11-28-2010, 05:51 AM

Ha! I was raised on cheese and chutney sandwiches. Gran's homemade mango chutney ftw! Though her tomato and chilli chutney was also to die for.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-28-2010, 08:02 AM

A friend has been bringing me ham and bacon, from a pork store near him in South Jersey. Everything they sell is smoke cured, no added salt. What a wonderful difference.

monster · 11-29-2010, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

A friend has been bringing me ham and bacon, from a pork store near him in South Jersey. Everything they sell is smoke cured, no added salt. What a wonderful difference.

not overly kosher, though...

monster · 11-29-2010, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Ha! I was raised on cheese and chutney sandwiches. Gran's homemade mango chutney ftw! Though her tomato and chilli chutney was also to die for.

not Branston?

footfootfoot · 11-29-2010, 09:35 PM

Oh I could seriously go for some Branston's and cheddar right now.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-30-2010, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

not overly kosher, though...

Neither am I.

DanaC · 11-30-2010, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

not Branston?

Branston's good. Gran's homemade pickles and chutneys better.

Sundae · 11-30-2010, 05:52 AM

I like Branston with the small lumps. Spreads better on crackers.

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-30-2010, 02:11 PM

Duly noted. Spread-friendly is a good thing.

Vegemite spreads better than Marmite, unless I just got a thin-textured jar or something. Vegemite can't drip off the knife on the way from jar to toast.

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-14-2010, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Ha! I was raised on cheese and chutney sandwiches. Gran's homemade mango chutney ftw! Though her tomato and chilli chutney was also to die for.

Did Gran pass either recipe on to family?

DanaC · 12-14-2010, 04:42 AM

Ummm.....yes kind of. Dad knew all her recipes. I suppose my uncle probably did as well. I daresay my paternal cousins, wherever they currently reside, will be concocting similar chutneys.

My Mum has some of Gran's recipes. And is a bloody good cook when she can be bothered. But she doesn't really do much cooking these days.

Gran tried to teach me. So did Dad. But at the time I wasn't really interested :P

[eta] I'll ask mum if the chutney recipes are in the box. If they are I'll post 'em.

sad_winslow · 12-31-2010, 08:50 PM

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.

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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.

11-27-2010, 11:50 AM	#32
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11-28-2010, 08:02 AM	#35
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11-29-2010, 09:35 PM	#38
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11-30-2010, 02:11 PM	#42
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Duly noted. Spread-friendly is a good thing. Vegemite spreads better than Marmite, unless I just got a thin-textured jar or something. Vegemite can't drip off the knife on the way from jar to toast. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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