Don't Eat That
1) Any food that is improved by pounding it against a rock for a goodly number of minutes before other interventions are tried (like thorough cleaning, more tenderization, and the introduction of other foods to obliterate the taste) shouldn't be eaten. Yes, I'm talking about tripe. It's called offal for a good reason - it's awful.
2) Same goes for all internal organs. Steak and Kidney pie is nasty. Don't forget, the kidneys are excretory organs, meaning that they produce urine. When they are cooking, your house will smell like some stinky downtown Toronto alley. And then there's liver. It detoxifies animals and produces bile. Yuck.
3) And pigs tails, feet and ears, chicken feet, beaks, brains of any sort, and any type of animal eyeball, even if rumoured to be a brain food, will never touch my lips.
4) And, cow noses, lips and anuses (and if you are paying attention, that rules out most hot dogs, even the so-called all-beef ones). There is no question that ground up cow lips and a wee bit of cow anus tastes fantastic when topped with ketchup and other delicious condiments. But, when you think about it, it's a putrid mess that isn't fit for even the most ravenous of carnivores.
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My father thinks that my grandmother is the best cook in the world because she makes steak and kidney pie for him all the time. It produced a dismal culinary experience in my young life and a long line of really bad expectations when it came to food and the people who prepared it. I came to accept that food was either gross or tasteless. I seem to have broken that cycle by being stupidly good at cooking, but it's funny that someone who eats steak and kidney pie can turn their nose up at things like truffles, onions and garlic. Oh, the humanity.
Oh, and brains=prions=mad cow disease. It's just not a good idea.
Try being raised around lutefisk!
My bottom line has always been when they tell me "it tastes just like chicken" I say, "Give me the chicken!"
Liver is actually one of my favourite foods. You get some bacon and kind of weave it through the liver and fry them um together. Yum!
I used to have pickled pigs feet when I was a kid, now I can never find it. And pickled tongue, how do you feel about tongue? You didn't mention it. It can't be gross if it's pickled right? I love the stuff.
Ok you don't have to eat the pickled tongue. But liver is definitely a must. With bacon. Eat it.
Man, lutefisk again! I keep coming across lutefisk. It has to be worse than cow brains.
SHJ: I ate tongue "by accident" once. Never again, although I have to admit that it did not taste funky. Pickled? I think there ought to be a law against that. I have heard that many health experts advise against eating liver now. That's good news.
I never had any dilusions that it was good for me. But it makes me happy, it's good for my soul. :)
that should have had one of your grossness warnings up front. offal is just wrong wrong wrong
I was with you til you got to hot dogs. I love hot dogs, but every time I eat one it becomes a battle of mind vs. taste buds. I know they're disgusting, and yet they're just so tasty.
Liver? Un-uh. The liver is the body's filter. I ain't eatin' no filter clogged with toxins.
Please tell me there are only lips and anuses in hot dogs, and no liver.
I'am not sure why we have to have conferences to declare that these items are gross. They are inherently gross. And so are the people who eat them.
Oh the memories of cow tongue. Such a texture. Damn, of all the memories I repressed from my youth, why couldn't this be one of them!
I don't think I'd try Steak & Kidney, but my mother-in-law does a fantastic Steak & Mushroom pie which is a very nice alternative!
I'm with you on tripe and liver (and haggis, too, while we're at it). I think I read that liver isn't even all that healthy anyway.
I figure hotdogs don't LOOK like meat, so I can pretend they're not actually from any part of an animal.
But I prefer mine with mustard, thanks.
This post inspired my post today about gyros, donairs and other street food.....
Tongue is delicious! If someone gave you a tongue sandwich on rye with mustard and didn't tell you what it was, you'd love it. (If you're not a vegetarian.)
Tripe is great, too, but you maybe should go to Italy to eat it. Tripa, sold on the street lout of carts like hot dogs. Dee-licious.
L-girl
L-Girl, I'm willing to take your word for it, but I will avoid it. I am a lapsed vegetarian.
I am a lapsed vegetarian myself. I'm the only former vegetarian I know who loves eating meat - everyone claims that once you give it up, you can't go back, but after 3 years I went back with great relief. And I actually feel better. A little guilty and morally uncomfortable, but physically better.
how about shark fin??? shark fin soup is good
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