Mack A. Damia wrote:
> I guess some of the cheaper sausages contains offal. Look at the
> ingredients in Vienna sausage - "lips and glands". Also potted meat
> contains the same.
>
> Who's familiar with souse or head cheese?
>
> Have you discussed scrapple, the Pennsylvania German dish made from
> pork offal?
>
> Tripe?
>
> My maternal great-grandmother owned and operated a tripe shop near
> Accrington, Lancashire, from 1900 until 1949.
>
> "Knight's Tripe Shop"
> 158 Whalley Road
> Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire
>
> Items sold:
>
> TRIPE:
> Fatty Seam
> Honeycomb
> Ladies Tripe (Cow's uterous)
> Elder (Cow's udder)
> COW'S HEELS
> SHEEP TROTTERS (delicious from all accounts)
> SHEEP'S BRAINS (Boiled and eaten, gravy supurb)
> PIG'S FEET (Trotters)
> BLACK PUDDING
> POLONY (Know it was a stuffed casing, but that's all)
>
> There was an rustic eating place in the back, which consisted of a
> table and a bench with salt, pepper and malt vinegar available.
> Great-Grandma did a booming business during Word War II, as meat was
> practically unavailable, and tripe made a good substitute.
>
> Tripe is popular in Mexico in the soup, Menudo, but I don't like it.
> Last time I looked it was almost $5.00/pound in California, but that
> was several years ago.

Well my motto is "offal is awful"! I won't eat any of that
crap although I have eaten black pudding in Ireland and it was
delicious, but I bought some here from an Irish vendor who claimed
it was real Irish black pudding and it was "offal". ;-)

I will eat calf's liver (but not beef or pork liver) and I'll
only eat chicken liver in rumaki. No other types of liver.

No brains
No eyeballs
No nose
No tongue
No thymus
No lights
No heart
No pancreas
No spleen
No kidneys
No tripe
No intestines (except in the form of sausage casings)
No gizzard (used to love it as a kid - won't touch it now)
No udder
No uterus
No chittlin's
No Rocky Mountain oysters (or any kind of oysters, for that matter)
No feet

Not from any animal.

Kate, who's feeling awful just thinking about offal. ;-)

--
Kate Connally
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Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?