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― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
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
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Same
― Evan, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
pathetic
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
lol
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
i don't get the tongue one
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
I suppose people didnt think that they were eating somethings actual tongue.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
who eats tongues
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
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"
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
tacos de lengua are good, flappy
if a little chewy sometimes
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
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
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
yeah, most of them served around these parts are just cheek, because the tongue ones are sold as lengua
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:07 (six years ago) link
ah i see. unfortunately we have no tacos where i live. which is... infuriating to say the least
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
it is impossible not to think about how yr eating a big fuckin cow tongue while eating a lengua taco, lol. nasty.
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
I've never had that thought!
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
that is impossible! anyway, now you will, haha
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
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
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 10 February 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
the cabeza tacos were delicious btw
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 February 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
ah i see. unfortunately we have no tacos where i live. which is... infuriating to say the leastthe cartoon does not show tacos
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Saturday, 10 February 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
Right
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 February 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
Yeah tongue isnt just a mexican thing, its also a british war era thing, along with brains, tripe, liver, kidneys etc.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 10 February 2018 05:34 (six years ago) link
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
― scrüt (wins), Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:17 (six years ago) link
War era? It's still sold here.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:27 (six years ago) link
Still sold, but I can't imagine it's been give to children since the 80s or earlier.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:53 (six years ago) link
You can buy liver in literally every supermarket in the uk
― scrüt (wins), Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:55 (six years ago) link
Same for ox tongue I think but in the cooked meat section
― scrüt (wins), Saturday, 10 February 2018 09:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Saturday, 10 February 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link
http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/medias/sys_master/root/h30/hc6/8987950514206.jpg
― scrüt (wins), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
Liver and kidneys are hardly outre.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:09 (six years ago) link
pretty much every uk supermarket will have this:https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/img/large/SGN1091.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:32 (six years ago) link
i don’t think australia has gammon either
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:38 (six years ago) link
and yet we have fray bentos so
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link
That it is God Emperor of Dune, not God, Emperor of Dune
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
a question on another website was wondering if americans had suet
and generally, the answer is no
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
just for birds ime
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
that was my actual comment
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
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?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
liver and onions still an old person staple I think, but it might be dying with the greatest generation
― mh, Sunday, 11 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
Shame
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 11 February 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
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?
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
We can get liver pate at the non-fancy grocery store near my parrtner's apartment?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
Buying foie gras is not the same as buying bloody chunk of raw liver to cook at home.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link
has anyone pretended it is
― mh, Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Sunday, 11 February 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link