Organ meats.

[FrothNinja]

Morrison's usually has a good variety and mutton, but you are best finding a good trad butcher. Love ox heart stew and my mum used to grill lambs hearts then melt mature cheddar onto them

 

[Milzy]

Ox tongue is nice it’s like corned beef.

 

[Salty seadog]

Are any of you liking this offal under 60 ?

Yep. Not scratched 50 yet.

 

[Salty seadog]

Probably should edit my previous post

but the idea of teak and kidney pie is better left for comedy value

Kate and Sidney pie.?

 

[grldtnr]

Who enjoys liver & kidneys?
How much do you eat & how often? Where do you buy yours from. Doing some research thanks.

A good source is roadkill,but you need to be quick, dodging traffic and the Jackdaws, they always, always seem to get first dibs!

 

[Cycleops]

Ox tongue is nice it’s like corned beef.

Always thought it tasted more like ham.

 

[grldtnr]

Ox tongue is nice it’s like corned beef.

+ 1 on that!
A long process to cook, you need to brine it ,hence the saltiness, but lordy I love a bit of tongue,
* Wish the cat would stop licking me!

 

[CanucksTraveller]

but lordy I love a bit of tongue

Paging @Fnaar
That's Fnaar to the thread, customer waiting, thank you.

 

[flake99please]

Are any of you liking this offal under 60 ?

Yep. Not scratched 50 yet.

Likewise. 49 next year. I will eat anything with the exception of tripe (found it tasteless).

 

[Salty seadog]

Likewise. 49 next year. I will eat anything with the exception of tripe (found it tasteless).

I'm not even going to try to find that out.

 

[KnittyNorah]

I agree that tripe is tasteless. It is like a sort of vaguely-savoury tough chewing gum.
I think it's similar in some ways to snails - the sauce is the only good thing about it and IMO the sauces of both would be far better if accompanying something else intended to be neutral in flavour; various forms of pasta and legumes come to mind as being most suitable as a satisfactory replacement for the tripes and snails of this world.
I am sure that the tripe and snails were originally used as an affordable, available source of cheap protein in a protein-poor society, and the sauces were used to make them more appetising/less unappetising. Nowadays we can use delicious sauces with more 'acceptable' carriers.

That said, there was a particular form of tripe in my childhood that used to be served, sauce-less, with a salad. My father liked it very much, so it must have had some sort of flavour. That was the only sort of tripe my mother ever served, she and I would have a slice of ham with our salads.

As a teenager I had a Saturday job in the UCP cafe ...

 

[FrothNinja]

My mother fed us white tripe which was better than chewing gum in both taste and longevity. She used to claim after feeding it to me, that I spoke what I ate.

 

[Reynard]

I wish I'd read this thread *before* I'd gone shopping yesterday.

I now have a hankering for devilled chicken livers with fried onions and rice*

*also good done with lambs kidneys.

 

[TheDoctor]

Bloody meat eaters pushing their weird eating habits down everyone's throats. Do you lot ever shut up about meat?

Mickle, mate, what did you *think* this thread might all be about?
Although reading about tripe, liver and sweetbreads is enough to get me to join you on the onion bhaji and aloo paneer side of things.

 

[Milzy]

Mickle, mate, what did you *think* this thread might all be about?
Although reading about tripe, liver and sweetbreads is enough to get me to join you on the onion bhaji and aloo paneer side of things.

What is a sweet bread?