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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Who decided to make it food? Someone that killed an animal and thought it was important to get back all the value they put into raising or hunting the animal. Someone hungry. And/or someone who thought about food logically. If there's nutritional value in it, why SHOULDN'T you try eating it and seeing if you can cook it in a way that you enjoy? How stupid would it be to throw nutritious material away without seeing whether you could use it?

I am always amazed at the idea that chitlins are gross but when you stuff them with hot dog filling the grossness disappears. They're the same thing. Deal with the truth of what you're eating.

If you don't like a food, cool. Don't eat it. But it's pretty ignorant to imagine there's a distinction between things that you don't like and things that are objectively so gross that they shouldn't even be sold. Your preferences are just that and don't count more than anyone else's.

Here we go, another GCer turning a fun, laughable thread into a shit talking one. I see your point to some degree, but to turn around and call somebody "ignorant" because they choose not to fuck with certain foods is an "ignorant" comment in itself. If you want to call folks on here "ignorant" for having thoughts you disagree with, add yourself to the mix, because everybody (you included) has ignorant thoughts on different topics every day.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

It spread because until 100 or so years ago, pretty much everyone except the very rich fell into the category of people who couldn't afford to waste any of the animal. And lots of those people had to sell (or pay as rent) the "desirable" parts, so all they had left was the organ meats and the like. Sometimes I wonder if modern American disdain for organ meats is really rooted in an association of those foods with poverty. We shun them because we've risen above them to the middle class. (Well, that and we've lost a real understanding of where our foods come from and what's involved in getting to our tables.)

I took an African American history class in summer school when I was an undergrad, and my instructor was basically saying something similar to what you said here. He was talking about how the same thing happened during slavery.

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

I am always amazed at the idea that chitlins are gross but when you stuff them with hot dog filling the grossness disappears. They're the same thing. Deal with the truth of what you're eating.

And why are you so "amazed" with this? I've tried chitlins and they don't taste all that great. They would be better if it weren't for the smell. I've also tried other foods that most folks would consider "normal" but don't taste all that good unless I add something to it. chitlins stink, hot dogs don't. I'm not putting anything in my mouth that smells like shit. Point blank.