Why can't I buy tripe nowadays ?

[postman]

Try the Tory party HQ they spout loads of it,if not try the Labour party they are just as bad.

 

[Cycleops]

Try the Tory party HQ they spout loads of it,if not try the Labour party they are just as bad.

It’s not just the dish itself that’s lost favour but terminology used as above. Can’t remember the last time I heard anyone refer to nonsense as tripe.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

Fear not, the French have ways of making your mouth water:

Tripes à la milanaise.
The reason it is not so popular in the UK is probably the cooking time: over 2 hours. Even so, it is simple to do (click the link for the recipe) and well worth the experience.

 

[Brandane]

You lot have no taste, or maybe it depends on how it is cooked! I used to love it the way my mum and other family members made it. Wish I could replicate it but tried and failed. It was cooked in milk and onions, served like a soup with boiled potatoes in it. Delicious! My paternal grandfather and 2 uncles were butchers, so there was no shortage of good quality meat to be had, but I still loved tripe.

 

[Julia9054]

There used to be a whole row of butchers specialising in it on Bradford Market 30 years ago
Reminds me of a party we went to in Zimbabwe where there was a giant vat of bubbling stew with a slightly greenish tinge. When we asked our host what was in it, he was obviously struggling for an English translation.
He thought for a minute and then settled on "tubes"

 

[oldwheels]

One of those dishes from the sixties and seventies, quite popular back then, mainly among the tiresome lower orders maybe because it was cheap?
Now considered rather yukky. Something else with similar connotations is tongue which I rather like.

1860's? I remember it in the 1940's and even then it was not terribly popular but in wartime you just had to take whatever you could get.

 

[Brandane]

Fear not, the French have ways of making your mouth water:
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Tripes à la milanaise.
The reason it is not so popular in the UK is probably the cooking time: over 2 hours. Even so, it is simple to do (click the link for the recipe) and well worth the experience.

The last time I had tripe was in France, when I saw "tripes de Caen" on the menu. With my limited French I didn't understand the finer details of what I was ordering but decided to take a gamble on it anyway. If it's tripe, and if it's French cooking, it's bound to be good. And it was excellent.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I used to see it all the time in Morrisons, but can't say I've seen it recently. I had some in SPain in a tomato sauce and it was quite nice. The cow testicles it came with were orrible though

 

[FrankCrank]

As teenagers, me and a mate used to do weird stuff for kicks, it was the dull 70's afterall. He had a light-bulb moment, with the idea to get some proper cow horns for his bike. The cunning plan was to get along to the local abattoirs in the evening, when all was quiet and no on around. This we did, and as he said, all the skips were lined up with all the stuff in them ready for disposal. It was just a case of getting lucky and finding the right one with the cows heads in, then removing a pair of horns for his bike. All well and good, till we peered over one of the skips, which was full of tripe, and it was all we could do not to puke up. We gave up at this point, realizing it was probably not such a good idea really.

 

[Ian H]

I think I've posted this before somewhere, from my late mother's 1953 Farmers' Weekly cookbook.

 

[fossyant]

As mentioned (dog food), pop into Pet's at Home for some - it's in the raw feeding freezer ! She'll never know.

 

[welsh dragon]

It's something people used to eat 60 plus years ago. I understand there were tripe shops where you could buy tripe cooked with
Onions and you could take a jug along to the shop and have your jug filled. Mr WD told me about them.

I don't think anyone buys it now as tastes have changed, people have more money in they're pockets and don't have any need for it. It's only elderly people now that would ever eat that crap concoction nowadays.

It's a terrible shame NOT

 

[presta]

I remember mum cooking it for the dog when I was a kid. The sight of it, all covered in grass, and the smell of it cooking were enough to put me off even considering trying it.

pop into Pet's at Home for some - it's in the raw feeding freezer

Might not be fit for human consumption though.

 

[Brandane]

It's something people used to eat 60 plus years ago. I understand there were tripe shops where you could buy tripe cooked with
Onions and you could take a jug along to the shop and have your jug filled. Mr WD told me about them.

I don't think anyone buys it now as tastes have changed, people have more money in they're pockets and don't have any need for it. It's only elderly people now that would ever eat that crap concoction nowadays.

It's a terrible shame NOT

The precursor to McD's then? I know which one I prefer, and it doesn't have golden arches and "happy" meals .

 

[I like Skol]

Still get tripe no trouble from the indoor market in Ashton-under-Lyne. Usually pop in and get some honeycomb and a bit of thick seam and deliver it to my dad's in South Wales whenever I visit. He can't get it down there.