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Janet

In article >, says...
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> On 3/26/2017 8:51 AM, Janet wrote:
> > A beef carcase can provide plenty of roasts and steaks, but only one
> > tail and two kidneys...demand pushes up the price.
> >
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> > Janet UK
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> For *years* I've wanted to make a steak & kidney pie. I cannot find
> beef kidneys anywhere. Not even at the independent meat market which
> just happens to be co-owned by a British woman. She told me she simply
> can't get them, not even lamb kidneys. So, no steak & kidney pie for me.

I prefer lambs kidneys in S+KP, or at a pinch, pigs, are they more
easily available for you?

Janet UK
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> Fortunately I can find "ox tails" but yes, the price is exhorbitant. I
> had to laugh a couple of years ago while talking with a neighbor. I
> mentioned I was making ox tail soup. He had no idea what it was. Then
> again, he doesn't cook. When I told him ox tails are, essentially, the
> beefy part of a cow's tail he cringed. LOL
>
> Jill