On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 13:04:28 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:
>
>On 9-Jan-2018, wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2018 10:28:00 UTC+1 schrieb dsi1:
>> > On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 10:37:06 PM UTC-10, sanne
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Tongue, cheek, even the whole heads, feet with claws, tails
>> > > - waste from
>> > > any slaughterhouse in former times. Poor people's
>> > > (sometimes only) source
>> > > of meat.
>> > > Look at all the nowadays high-priced specialties - lots of
>> > > work/time
>> > > necessary to make them edible.
>> > >
>> > > Bye, Sanne.
>> >
>> > Eating oxtail would seem to be an European or a Chinese thing
>> > but it
>> > hardly seems American.
>>
>> Given the history of the immigrants and the slaughterhouses
>> everywhere in
>> the USA, New York especially ("Give me your poor...")?
>> I'm talking about the 19th/early 20th century regarding and
>> introducing
>> the oxtail to American cuisine.
>> Who would have thought that raw fish would be a thing in the
>> USA?
>I don't understand why anyone would think it odd to eat oxtails
>in the US, unless they are being literal and don't know that
>oxtail is from a cow, not an actual ox. We were, not so long
>ago, a country with lots of small farms and folks living in rural
>areas. As a child in 1950s rural US, my paternal grandparents
>were farmers. When an animal was slaughtered, nothing was
>wasted. If it was slaughtered for sale, the best parts were sold
>and that that didn't sell was eaten on the farm. Beef tongue,
>oxtail (cow tail), hog jowl, maw, chit'lins and snoot, etc. were
>all made into tasty, nourishing food. And, set food preferences
>for at least a generation; now, I seek out smoked hog jowl and
>pay nearly as much for it as bacon. Many of the soul food and
>southern dishes are made from what couldn't be sold, or sold very
>cheap.
I am off to the grocery store presently and now I absolutely have to
have some oxtail! I don't care if people in NA don't eat it, when we
came here 50 years ago they didn't and the butcher would just give you
some, same with nice marrow soup bones, now they are an item and
expensive
