Do you eat offal? (For those bored with Clive's thread).

[TripleSix]

Chitterlin', chitterlin', chitterlin'; chitterlin' is all I crave,
Fill I up with chitterlin', and think of all the cash you'll save;
You can do Irish stew or Cordon Bleu,
Stuff it where you stuff your fancy suits,
You can buy it soft or hard, by the pound or by the yard,
Chitterlin's the stuff to give the troops!

 

[RushesToo]

Its also barely cooked. It stunk of pig innards. I was stuck in France with a broken down car at the time and then ordered it unknowingly. I think I acutually cried

Now that is a story to tell. Broke down in a car had a McDonalds just doesn't work in the same way.

 

[Blaithin]

I am not a liver or kidney fan

Had tongue in Australia and have wanted to cook it here for years but never get around to buying it. Also want to try heart.

Do Prairie Oysters count? Those are enjoyable. Bet they’re even harder to find in the UK than Tomahawks

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Oooh yes
Not much gets chucked out around here, one of my favourites is lamb heart stuffed with finely chopped bacon and garlic, I ate 26 of them far this year and keenly eyeing up the early lambs

Took me a while to learn how to cook brain well, used to turn to mush in the pan but Dr Hannibal Lecter had it right: a wee bit of lemon juice in the water firms the slices up just enough to fry them without aforementioned flying-to-bits occuring

 

[Exfarmer]

Had a andouille sausage once. Disgusting

My son and I were touring southern France a few years back and we stopped at little hotel outside Nimes. That evening on the menu was this delicacy which neither of us had ever heard of but my son thought he would like to try.
The waiter who spoke no English got in a right fluff when he ordered this sausage , Non, non, he kept saying in our best French we repeated the order, but went off and found the manager. I am sorry, she said, we do not serve this to our English customers as they always send it back!
My foodie son invited he would like to try it and the did serve it, the smell was revolting and a morsel made me gag! He did manage to eat it but I was very happy with my Steak au poivre

 

[Exfarmer]

Oooh yes
Not much gets chucked out around here, one of my favourites is lamb heart stuffed with finely chopped bacon and garlic, I ate 26 of them far this year and keenly eyeing up the early lambs

Took me a while to learn how to cook brain well, used to turn to mush in the pan but Dr Hannibal Lecter had it right: a wee bit of lemon juice in the water firms the slices up just enough to fry them without aforementioned flying-to-bits occuring

It may be an old wives tale, but I was always told, you should be careful not to eat too much of the fat around the heart, as it was some of the worst for hardening the arteries.
Never liked brains though, perhaps it was just the cooking .
I have never eaten calves but lambs balls were always a favourite when they castrated with a hot iron. used to cook them over the fire heating the irons.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

It may be an old wives tale, but I was always told, you should be careful not to eat too much of the fat around the heart, as it was some of the worst for hardening the arteries.
Never liked brains though, perhaps it was just the cooking .
I have never eaten calves but lambs balls were always a favourite when they castrated with a hot iron. used to cook them over the fire heating the irons.

That would make sense! I usually take the top off the heart as it makes it so much easier to stuff.
I've never really been much of a fan of 'oysters' but tails are pretty good!

 

[manhill]

Placenta? Yum, yum!

 

[Hindsight]

Haggis from David Comrie butchers from Comrie, Perthshire. Fantastic Haggis. My wife brings several back from her trips.

 

[Exfarmer]

Placenta? Yum, yum!

OMG! or do we have our first dog posting here

 

[manhill]

OMG! or do we have our first dog posting here

The food for eternal youth and safer than viagra!

 

[Exfarmer]

The food for eternal youth and safer than viagra!

I must confess I have never ever heard of this before, except among some weird hippy ladies.
Do you eat it raw, as I understand the hormone benefit you are looking for, would largely be lost by cooking?

 

[manhill]

I must confess I have never ever heard of this before, except among some weird hippy ladies.
Do you eat it raw, as I understand the hormone benefit you are looking for, would largely be lost by cooking?

Did I infer it was for food? Sorry. What you do is strip naked and put on a boiler suit, tie the ankles and cuffs, pour the placenta inside, zip it up, then, preferably when there's a full moon, roll over and over on the ground so it reaches every pore of your skin. After all that you can collect and bottle it and sell on one of those tv shopping channels to the gullable.
Failiing that just boil and add seasoning to taste.

 

[Exfarmer]

Did I infer it was for food? Sorry. What you do is strip naked and put on a boiler suit, tie the ankles and cuffs, pour the placenta inside, zip it up, then, preferably when there's a full moon, roll over and over on the ground so it reaches every pore of your skin. After all that you can collect and bottle it and sell on one of those tv shopping channels to the gullable.
Failiing that just boil and add seasoning to taste.

I think I will decline any kind offer of dinner with you

 

[Henarar]

OMG! or do we have our first dog posting here

Don't some women eat it

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

Don't some women eat it

Yes, but apparently you should only eat your own, not other people's.

I googled for you: https://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Your-Placenta

 

[unlacedgecko]

Can't stand either Kidney or Liver, it's just something about the taste.

Don't mind Heart.

We used to have tripe, although thinking back it tasted of nothing really.

My daugter once went to Jordan with a English/Jordanian boyfriend, the family brought out a sheeps head, almost made her sick when they dived in to the brain and eyes, I think I might have been the same though.

I was on a trip to Oman and the hosts did whole slow roast lamb in the traditional manner for a visiting dignitary. Brain was ok, but didn’t taste of much.

 

[JCMaloney]

On holiday in rural Tunisia they had sweetbreads on the menu.
I ordered them.
The waiter asked if I was "certain".
I said yes.
They don`t cook them............. just sliced and served Ceviche with pepper and salt.
Possibly the best sweetbreads I`ve ever had.

 

[ollie989898]

My father would tell you he used to enjoy eating brains back in the day.

I will eat liver but I prefer it cooked in a pan with bacon for breakfast and I find pigs liver too strong. Kidneys I just can't stand, smells just like ammonia.

Haggis and black pudding I would eat every day. Proper haggis is delicious.

The boy, being an Islamic terrorist and not yet 3 years old totally refuses to eat bacon at breakfast time but I occasionally buy some black pudding from John Thorners (they sell 6 slices in a vacuum pack so ridiculous money but I'm the only person who will eat it here) and cook it for breakfast in the bacon pan; every damned time I cook the stuff for breakfast he won't leave me alone until he has eaten the lot, I reckon he would eat it raw if given half the chance.

I'm told brawn and lung is ok.

Sweetbreads are glandular tissue, I thought pancreas and the like? Supposed to be good but I have not eaten it except years ago on a trip in Italy, it was cooked (pan fried or similar) though.

Would eat veal every day as well, I have no clue why Brits won't eat it. I'd rather eat veal in breadcrumbs than pork or chicken any day.

 

[Montexy]

When the house keeping money was running low mother would buy heart from the butcher and used to tell me it was Dragons heart to make it sound exciting to eat and so get me to eat it.