On 1/9/2018 10:09 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 01:27:52 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> where do you suppose those Americans came from? They brought all
> their favorite foods with them because even here in the U,S,, cattle
> have tails, chicken have feet, etc. Sweetbreads was one of my
> favorites as a child. I ate pickled pigs feet along with my mom (she
> loved them) We ate liver. It is only in recent times that people
> decided they should only eat the big muscle parts. I hate it when
> sausage advertises that it is made solely with some of the big muscle
> parts of the animal. We love bacon, sausage and lunch meats that
> were originally devised to utilize lesser parts of an animal. If you
> are going to kill an animal for food, you'd better be willing to eat
> the whole darn thing. End of sermon
> Janet US
>

And a good sermon it was!

;-0