Offal Eating - C/D, S/D?

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My parents used to eat all manner of things, including tongue, liver, tripas (intestines), and brains. My mom still loves liver and tripas, and I've actually gone through and tried tripas before (and disliked its flavor, but ah well).

Still... brains... ugh. Double ugh. "I'm getting sick here" ugh.

dee, tripas , is tripe not intestines, intestines is what you fill to make sausages, at least if you are doing it properly. Tripe is the feathery membrane that hold the organs in.

i've had marrow, spleens, livers, hearts, kidneys, tongues, and gizzards and I can't say that any of them are tasty. the livers taste the worst, and the hearts and gizzards are really chewy and just dont sit right with me. my parents love the stuff, including that red flappy stuff on top of a chicken's head.

Her French host said simply, "Why Madam, have an egg instead."

Being thrifty with the animals we kill - classic

Making 'strange' things taste delicious - classic

I have never used a microwave to bung anything. Honest.

That said, I'd love to try more things - particularly since I inherited a wartime recipe book that has an unbelievable amount of offal recipes (including an astonishing looking lamb's brain sauce). I just need to find a better butcher, I guess.

how is it more disgusting to eat an organ than muscle tissue?
in each case you are devouring the flesh of a once-living thing. is it b/c we have all grown accustomed to the texture of chicken, but most of us are not familiar with liver etc? this concept is confusing to me

it seems to me either yr into eating animals or yr not

Well, pardon my potential ignorance, but isn't the make-up of certain organs (thalmus, kidney, liver, etc.) much different than that of muscle tissue? And, therefore, isn't the manner and amount of retention of "stuff" in those tissues different? Like, aren't the kidneys and liver the filtration devices for the body?

Not that this matters - I could crush some foie gras with a vengeance today. I'm just saying that I understand some people's hesitation in consuming glandular materials.

I also love it, because it means more for me. Woot!

I don't think it's any more disgusting. But it is a matter of privilege, being able to throw away part of the animal, so I suppose some class disgust can creep in.

What about blood? I rocked some morcilla de Burgos tonight here in Madrid.

It's all good.

kidneys do filter yr blood
but the waste goes to urine, and is not kept there.
livers are much more complicated tho

this shld probably be on i love cooking but w/e... anyone have a good recipe for sweetbreads?

butter and sugar sandwiches are the way to go for sweet breads

a place downtown serves brain tacos and thinking about going

anyone ever tried it?

are they actually brain (sesos) or cabeza?

I've had tacos de sesos, they were kinda gross

they say brain

there are a few places in downtown los angeles

my buddy from blandcouver is comin and i wanna treat him to some authentic mexican ish

the grosser the better wins

they don't have a lot of flavor ime so it's all about the toppings. consistency of hard scrabbled eggs.

that sucks

so youre telling me theyre not anything special

cilantro/onions are good tho

will throw in some hot sauce or whatever they have i guess

pretty much yeah nothing special . Many more flavorful options at the taco shop im sure

i usually eat more than 6 tacos so well have plenty of other choices

theres some really good mexican in la

might take him to tepeyac or my more americanized favourite (tere's -- have a soft spot for em)