On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:47:31 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 2017-03-26 8:47 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> 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
>>
>Oxtail brawn is also good. I.e., like a pork/head cheese but made with
>oxtails.
>Graham

I've never seen or heard of that. I've only seen head cheese
Janet US