On May 13, 9:26*am, 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. ;-)
>
> --
> Kate Connally
> “If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
> 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?
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I'm with you, Kate!