Dan Abel wrote:
>
> Could be pork brains.

It was on the Feasting on Asphatl episode.

> And I don't know how BSE spreads.

There's also a similar potential from sheep called scrappy. I would not
eat sheep brains either.

> There was certainly a big BSE scare back then. My daughter went to
> London for a semester. When she came back, she tried to donate blood,
> which she has done for years and years. Once they found out she had
> been to the UK, they told her they didn't want her blood, and wouldn't
> take it for three years! They weren't interested in any details, just
> no. She was a vegetarian, and had eaten no meat the whole time!

They would not take my wife's blood as of the lasttime she checked. Too
long in Germany and the UK back when.

I was in the military during the time on their forms so every time I
donate blood (double red blood cells, half as often as whole blood) I go
through their questionaire process. Nope, I spent almost my entire time
in the military in foregin and exotic California. Not that I'll ever
ask them but when I'm not at the donation center I think something like
"Dude, ever you ever BEEN to California? It's gnarly there. Don't
drink the water, Man." ;^)