On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 09:48:27 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>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.
>>
>>
>> Janet UK
>
>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.
>
>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
my husband told his mother during a phone call that we were having
oxtail soup for supper. She said 'Oh, I don't think I would like
that.' This from a farm woman in Iowa. It's beef, for heaven's
sake. And very delicious too. The only way I can get satisfactory
oxtails is to buy them at Cash and Carry (a restaurant supply). 10 #
for $60. They are huge, meaty things.
Janet US