On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:26:16 -0400, Kate Connally >
wrote:

>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. ;-)

It's a cultural thing, isn't it? Since you don't like raw oysters
on-the-half-shell, I have to brand you uncivilized.

Dog is very popular in parts of Asia, and you might not know you're
eating it.

Best to be careful at Oriental restaurants. :-P
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mad