Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I can't remember exactly when I learnt this but for a long time I didn't realise Grant Hart sang songs in Husker Du. I knew he wrote songs but I thought Bob always sang them

Same

pathetic

lol

i don't get the tongue one

I suppose people didnt think that they were eating somethings actual tongue.

who eats tongues

to be fair people have some funny ideas about tacos de cabeza and headcheese, so it's fair to think people would hear tongue and think "nah, it can't actually be"

typically both of those don't include eye or brain, but people are like "omg beef brain tacos"

tacos de lengua are good, flappy

if a little chewy sometimes

lol I had a cabeza taco the other day, I was like "doesn't that mean 'head'" but they assured me it was cow cheek

yeah, most of them served around these parts are just cheek, because the tongue ones are sold as lengua

ah i see. unfortunately we have no tacos where i live. which is... infuriating to say the least

it is impossible not to think about how yr eating a big fuckin cow tongue while eating a lengua taco, lol. nasty.

I've never had that thought!

that is impossible! anyway, now you will, haha

nah, it's like eating pork cracklins (or chicharrones), the appearance and texture doesn't make you think "oh it's pig skin strips" because it's so disconnected

yeah i never ate tongue as a kid cuz eww but i imagine it was served fried/poached then in slices so you’d disassociate it. but i’d see it in a packet in the supermarket* and think OH GROSS.

*it occurs to me, as an aside, that i saw offal like tongue, sheeps brain and liver commonly as a kid but not at all anymore? maybe the 70s still had a slight war era rationing mentality i dunno

the cabeza tacos were delicious btw

ah i see. unfortunately we have no tacos where i live. which is... infuriating to say the least

the cartoon does not show tacos

Right

Yeah tongue isnt just a mexican thing, its also a british war era thing, along with brains, tripe, liver, kidneys etc.

I'm sure I've talked about my dads sheeps brains on toast breakfasts before on ILX.

Offal is eaten all over the world flappy you shockingly old so and so

War era? It's still sold here.

Still sold, but I can't imagine it's been give to children since the 80s or earlier.

My point being I used to see tongue/brains/tripe/liver easily in the meat section in the 70s - I dont now. Youd have to go to a butchers to get that shit now.

You can buy liver in literally every supermarket in the uk

Same for ox tongue I think but in the cooked meat section

Even though I don't eat meat, I'm strangely proud of Britain still being in the war era. It'll be a sad day when liver and jars of Princes salmon paste disappear from our shelves.

http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/medias/sys_master/root/h30/hc6/8987950514206.jpg

Liver and kidneys are hardly outre.

pretty much every uk supermarket will have this:

https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/img/large/SGN1091.jpg

i don’t think australia has gammon either

and yet we have fray bentos so

That it is God Emperor of Dune, not God, Emperor of Dune

a question on another website was wondering if americans had suet

and generally, the answer is no

just for birds ime

that was my actual comment

I live in a whitebread, solidly middle-class, USA suburb and it is impossible to buy tongue, liver, kidneys, brains or other offal at any of the supermarkets around here without making it a "special order" and paying well for the privilege of eating like the working class or peasantry. Even chicken livers can be hard to come by, but at least they are available without making a trek or placing an order.

pretty sure a few of the midcentury style italian-american restaurants around here still have breaded friend chicken gizzards as an appetizer, though

not that I need em, but bless them for keeping the tradition going

xp Even liver and kidneys? I mean, it makes sense, just used to seeing them on sale everywhere I've lived (UK, Czech Republic, China) and just what do you do with them exactly? I heard there are container vessels going between USA and China trading chicken breasts for chicken feet, maybe something similar? Or just putting them in hot dogs?

You can get liver anywhere, surely? (Regina, Saskatchewan, had a Liver Lovers' Club.) I honestly thought that, as far as whitebread North American culture goes, tongue and brain were delicacies for fancy people.

liver and onions still an old person staple I think, but it might be dying with the greatest generation

Shame

We ate liver a bunch when I was growing up (my grandparents believed organ meats were somehow important to have every now and then). Brains & eggs was still a regional specialty in my childhood. I don't like tongue but I'm sure I've seen it in stores in recent memory (though I haven't looked).

Fancy grocery stores (Whole Foods or whatev) will surely have liver-based pates and/or foie gras still, right?

We can get liver pate at the non-fancy grocery store near my parrtner's apartment?

Buying foie gras is not the same as buying bloody chunk of raw liver to cook at home.

has anyone pretended it is

that is to say, anything branded as “liver pate”is not buying foie gras because those things are distinct even if one is technically a member of the other

Yeah, no, not talking about foie gras.