Bizzare Foods

[kathylc]

marshal.....I did not find your posts obnoxius, besides even if they were who cares its not a big deal anyhow....I do not g et my panties in a wad over forum posts no matter what they are about.

I think they call stomach here tripe or something like that. I seen a ot of gross foods on BIzzare food show that was common in UK. ONe is a ball of sorts made from stomach and other stuff whose name I forget right now. I may eat organ meat in sausages or souse or scrapple, but it has to be pretty well disguised, although I do like liverwurst. Although there is really one organ meat I do love but its not usually sold in stores

[PanzerPorn]

I stopped watching the show when i realized the scary resemblance between Andrew Zimmern and Stogie.

[kathylc]

(PanzerPorn @ Jun. 27 2008,07:10) I stopped watching the show when i realized the scary resemblance between Andrew Zimmern and Stogie.

dam.......I think Stogie has more body hair though, but there is quite a resemblence now that you mention it!

[marshal]

Kathy, glad i did not offend you!

SO NO MORE MR NICE GUY!! just kidding

The ball you were refrering to could it be haggis?

On the question of organ meat they don't sell in shops..
Wouldn't have a clue!

Would like to know more about that dish of leftover meats? the one you mentioned that is fried up.
scrapple?

[kathylc]

"Organ" meat....come on don't tell me you don't know what organ mean I am referring to!

Haggis is the stuff I was thinking of........probably eating it is one thing but seeing how they make it etc and with what they use to make it is another. One of those Mind over matter foods!

Scrapple in the old days was made with whatever was left. (mainly all pork, and contained everything but the squeal) You could say it is made from the sweeping off the floor of a butcher shop. The bones are scraped clean, the knives and saws accumulated stuff is used, any meat trimings or scraps that can not be used as is is put into it. Its seasoned and mixed and ground into a mush and formed into a flat loaf of sorts. Chilled and then sliced. Its pan fried in a skillet with butter or oil, until golden brown, and then served with pancake (maple) syrup or eggs or a host of other things to each individual taste. Its dirt cheap to buy, extremely tasty and fast and easy to make. Once cooked its good for making a sandwhich out of as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Its a chloresterol bomb for sure!

[marshal]

Oh............. that organ

Have not tried haggis myself as i'm a southerner, and haggis is north of the border,up in scotland(a scottish dish) think they eat battered deep fried mars bars up there as well I have tried one, years ago, all in the name of culinary research to sweet for my liking. I probably could buy haggis where i live, but i would have to search, so i will leave that for a scotland visit.

Back to the organ........

i meant scrapple, i'm very intrigued by this dish and i'm going to look more into it. Sounds a little like a meatloaf.

Not the singer

One of mt favourite dishes is sweetbreads, have you come across these?

[kathylc]

Yes, sweetbreads are quite a common food here. And old neighbor of mine used to make a blood soup and added red beets, onions and massive amounts of sour cream to it. It was good eating as well. Here in the south they have chitlin festivals...........and when it gets cool out is when folks slaughter their hogs inthe back yard. Then they have chitlin slingings. Usually a bunch of folks get to gether that has hogs to slaughter and put up and they make a festival out of it.

Scrapple would be kind of mushy for a meat loaf but it is in all reality a loaf and its meat.....plus you do not put anything on it when you fry it, its added on it after its fried.

[marshal]

We have a mini food revolution going on in the uk at the moment with more people beginning to show an interest in what they are buying,eating and whether or not the animal was kept in a humane way. Un- fortunately we have now lost our sense of community with the big supermarkets taking all the trade and closing the little guys down. Probably a little late now that the big corporations have taken over. But it is a start and a push in the right direction. Another problem poeple tend to overlook is the fact that the world is now so fast, people don't have the time they did 30 odd years ago, and most couples both work.
A lot of the foods we ate will become bizarre to the youth that are growing up,because of convenience and skills that are lost, if there parents don't cook or can't cook they won't learn or have the inclination to learn.

Excuse that smilee as it was to do with the post as for me i'm generally