This shouldn't even be edible/on a menu/or sold in the grocery store/meat market

I Phi 1963 · #1 01-30-2013, 05:01 PM

I did a search and I found a lot of threads on here about food, from nasty to good. But, what about food that folks like that you think shouldn't even be edible. Not food that folks like, but you don't like, but food folks like that you think shouldn't even be sold. I'm talking where you say, why in the hell would that even be sold in stores or on a menu in a restaurant? Or who decided to even make this food?

Back in the day, my mom had this thing for chicken gizzards. Nasty as hell. She liked cow tongue too. WTF? Why that shit is even sold in the stores, I will never understand.

What about y'all?

KillarneyRose · #2 01-30-2013, 05:33 PM

Living in Maryland, blue crabs are an important part of our culture. But when I look at one I have to think, "Who in the world decided they'd try EATING this???"

I Phi, I have something that I like but I don't think anyone else would. Underwood Deviled Ham. It's...how can I put this...smooshed up meat and fat and who knows what else and put into a can. I'm sure it's terrible for me but every once in awhile I treat myself to some of it on Wonder Bread slathered in mayonnaise. Yumm!

cheerfulgreek · #3 01-30-2013, 05:48 PM

Haggis
Pig Intestines (aka "chitlins") and/or stomachs of any kind
Cow tongue
Pig tongue
Pig snout
Pig feet
Pig brains
Liver of any kind
Tripe --I don't even know what it is, but I saw it at the grocery store once, and it looked disgusting like Who would think of this as food?. Really?

Yuck!

I'm sure there are more, but some things probably exist for eating that I've never heard of, yet.

I Phi 1963 · #4 01-30-2013, 08:17 PM

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stomachs of any kind

Tripe --I don't even know what it is, but I saw it at the grocery store once, and it looked disgusting like Who would think of this as food?. Really?

Now that I think about it, Tripe IS stomach (I think).

I Phi 1963 · #5 01-30-2013, 08:19 PM

Anybody ever had pickled pigs feet? My mom used to eat that shit as a snack LOL.

cheerfulgreek · #6 01-30-2013, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

Wonder Bread slathered in mayonnaise. Yumm!

Ewwww....

KillarneyRose · #7 01-30-2013, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Ewwww....

I never said it was haute cuisine but I think it's yummy. So there

cheerfulgreek · #8 01-31-2013, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

I never said it was haute cuisine but I think it's yummy. So there

lol
Well, I drown my french fries in mustard.

TonyB06 · #9 01-31-2013, 02:16 PM

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lol
Well, I drown my french fries in mustard.

ok, this ^^ is officially weird.

groovypq · #10 01-30-2013, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

Living in Maryland, blue crabs are an important part of our culture. But when I look at one I have to think, "Who in the world decided they'd try EATING this???"

This makes me chuckle. I'm a Pennsylvanian married to a Baltimorean and I just DO. NOT. GET. the fascination with picking crabs. So much work for just a little meat. I sort of dread the times we're visiting the in-laws and they get steamed crabs, because they all go to town and I always forget how to do it. Plus the Old Bay all over the place makes my hands itch.

Sad thing is, though, I LOVE crabmeat. I'm just lazy, I guess.

maconmagnolia · #11 01-30-2013, 06:05 PM

I have a friend who loves cow brain. I find it repulsive.

MysticCat · #12 01-30-2013, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by I Phi 1963

Or who decided to even make this food?

People who couldn't afford to waste any part of an animal.

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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

I Phi, I have something that I like but I don't think anyone else would. Underwood Deviled Ham. It's...how can I put this...smooshed up meat and fat and who knows what else and put into a can.

Oh, I know someone else who likes it -- though I like homemade deviled ham better.

As for folks who think tongue, intestines and other offal and organs would fall into this category, I suggest that they not look too closely into how sausage or the casing it's in are made.

I can't say I love heart or tongue, though I've eaten both, but the line's not there for me. The line for me probably is blood, a la black pudding.

AnchorAlumna · #13 01-30-2013, 09:10 PM

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People who couldn't afford to waste any part of an animal.

That's it right there.

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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.

My parents grew up poor in the 1920s and '30s way, way up in the mountains of North Carolina. Both on farms. No McDonald's down the road, no pizza on call. My mom was one of 8 kids. You ate what was put on the table and were glad to have something - anything - to eat.

The parents both enjoyed pickled pigs feet, brains with scrambled egg. They crumbled their cornbread into milk and craved buttermilk on hot summer days. Mom would often talk about grabbing a chicken out in the yard, wringing its neck and all the rest for fried chicken - that was a special dinner! She would yearn for fresh squirrel, which her daddy or uncles would kill out in the woods.

I still marvel that she would feed us, about once a week or so, slices of fried fatback with the rind on one side.

Yes, that was our meat for the night, with fried cabbage, diced and fried potatoes and biscuits or cornbread (made with bacon grease).

I later learned that very, very few people ate like that, even in the South.

My dad and I would enjoy a snack of potted ham on crackers. Potted ham is a step below deviled ham!

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adpiucf · #15 01-30-2013, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by I Phi 1963

Back in the day, my mom had this thing for chicken gizzards. Nasty as hell. She liked cow tongue too. WTF? Why that shit is even sold in the stores, I will never understand.

What about y'all?

I loved when my grandmother made cow tongue as a kid. I didn't even think twice. As an adult, I won't prepare it or eat it because I realized it is a cow tongue which is just too close to making think about the cute furry animal it used to be attached to. I have no problem eating meat; I just don't want to think about it.

Ok, I take that back. I might consider ordering a cow tongue sandwich at a deli where it is disguised as lunch meat.

My mom used to love chicken feet in chicken soup. She kept chicken feet in the freezer.

If it LOOKS like part of the animal that I could have petted or touched, as opposed to indiscriminate meat, I probably won't eat it. Not so much for the taste appeal, but the look of it.