I've been inspired by one of Anthony Bordain's episodes and have decided to venture further into the world of "other parts".

I've certainly had more than my share of liver and sweetbreads, but that's pretty much it.

So tonight I bought some scrapple and tripe, and figured I would give that a go.

Anyone eat this stuff on the regular?

5/14/2011 7:32:42 PM

souse all the way, baby

5/14/2011 7:43:07 PM

Discharge

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5/14/2011 7:43:33 PM

^^ I thought about buying that, but it looked like a lot of gelatin.

5/14/2011 7:44:36 PM

Nah I eat the good parts, this isn't the goddamn third world

5/14/2011 7:44:41 PM

according to the mexicans i work with, tacos made with cow tongue are delicious.

5/14/2011 7:45:24 PM

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"Discharge"

WIN

5/14/2011 7:48:19 PM

^^ trying that tomorrow.





[Edited on May 14, 2011 at 7:49 PM. Reason : NOT DISCHARGE DAMN-IT!!]

5/14/2011 7:48:29 PM

scrapple is delicious

but i also grew up eating it regularly, so that might have something to do with it. some people really dislike it.

5/14/2011 7:50:14 PM

My mom makes scrapple every sunday morning... I just.... I just can't. For years she has put it in front of me at breakfast and I just can't.

5/14/2011 8:09:40 PM

I'd love to see her cholesterol levels

5/14/2011 8:11:10 PM

that's not all i'd like to see

5/14/2011 8:25:59 PM

Isn't scrapple the same thing as livermush and liver pudding? Just a different name for different areas.

Also hell no on the tripe. That is the damn reticulum of a cows stomach. DISGUSTING!

5/14/2011 8:41:30 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRD6mjrUMo

5/14/2011 8:45:12 PM

i can play like 90% of that solo. never had the patience to figure out the song

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[Edited on May 14, 2011 at 8:51 PM. Reason : because its not particularly good IMO. just the solo]

5/14/2011 8:51:46 PM

scrapple is literally scraps of pig ground up (some innards) and mixed with seasoning and cornmeal

do not eat it regularly or you will die

5/14/2011 8:54:19 PM

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"So tonight I bought some scrapple and tripe, and figured I would give that a go. "

I enjoy both of these. I cook tripe probably once a month and regularly order it when at the right restaurants. I also enjoy chicken feet, pig intestines, chicken hearts, and gizzards. Yummy

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"according to the mexicans i work with, tacos made with cow tongue are delicious."

Oh yeah, forgot about tongue. The cow, sheep, and pig varieties are all tasty. Pig ear is also tasty when made well. I love stir fry made with it.

[Edited on May 14, 2011 at 9:06 PM. Reason : s]

5/14/2011 9:04:27 PM

yeah i ain't chewin on no ear

5/14/2011 9:14:48 PM

So I made the scapple with a Dijon butter sauce and it was awesome. It was definitely like a mix of liver pudding and sausage.


The tripe was ok. It didn't seem to add too much to the soup I made, other than a rather odd texture. I would definitely try again if someone with talent prepared it, though.

5/14/2011 9:34:57 PM

I, too, thought of "Fermented Offal Discharge".

5/14/2011 10:13:45 PM

those tongue eating Mexicans are right

lengua is DELICIOUS!

but you have to peel it

5/15/2011 2:55:53 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRD6mjrUMo&sns=em

[Edited on May 15, 2011 at 3:46 AM. Reason : hahahahah great minds, th3ortecht]

5/15/2011 3:45:28 AM

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"scrapple is literally scraps of pig ground up (some innards) and mixed with seasoning and cornmeal do not eat it regularly or you will die"

haha, the same as hotdogs


on a serious note, brains are fairly tasty but made of pure cholesterol and could potentially harbor infectious disease.

other offal for the most part is best enjoyed as sausage or finely minced as in dirty rice with chicken livers.

if you really want to eat some offal, look to some old british isles recipes. haggis, steak and kidney pie, and blood pudding can be made fairly edible, but they have a host of more intimidating recipes to choose from as well... http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/offal

Finally, if you watch Matt Zimmern's show instead, you'll quit wanting to eat offal. every show he's eating something made out of colon and saying "this tastes like actual feces"

5/15/2011 7:19:25 AM

You're full of shit. My Grandpa eats scrapple every morning, has for decades-he's 78. Same with my dad, he's 55; and I ate it on the regular growing up.

Everyone is still alive.

[Edited on May 15, 2011 at 7:38 AM. Reason : gg]

5/15/2011 7:38:10 AM

organ meat is the best.

5/15/2011 11:13:54 AM

still alive*

5/15/2011 11:15:29 AM

we have a chicken liver and foie gras pate at my restaurant. i can eat foie gras every day. cow tongue is good. duck tongue is good too.

5/15/2011 1:35:11 PM

Looked up scrapple, it is definitely not offal.


I have tried/eat regularly and love:

chicken liver
chicken hearts
chicken gizzards
chicken spleen
chicken kidney
lamb brain .... yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum
lamb liver
cow udders


I have tried and didn't like:

camel liver


I see in the market regularly and want to try soon:

cow tripe
cow heart
cow liver
cow kidney
cow tongue
lamb tongue
lamb feet

5/15/2011 1:37:24 PM

tongue, feet, tripe, all of that shit


had it, hate it



give me regular cuts of meat, plx

5/15/2011 1:49:13 PM

jadn's right

5/15/2011 1:52:24 PM

no plans to eat anything called awful

5/15/2011 2:49:43 PM

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"I cook tripe probably once a month and regularly order it when at the right restaurants. I also enjoy chicken feet, pig intestines, chicken hearts, and gizzards. Yummy "

Fit right-in in Japan, eh?

OP needs to go to grand asia market; you ain't a man til you've had a pig uterus

5/15/2011 3:01:38 PM

^ haha I won't lie, I acquired a taste for most organ meats in Japan.

I don't think it's considered offal but pigs feet are also tasty.

5/15/2011 9:40:30 PM

Gosh we eat that stuff in louisiana

pickled pig feet/lips are the bomb dot com

don't hate

I like pig ears too

Love liver

Dirty Rice is made from chicken livers n gizzards & hearts so that's nothing new

5/15/2011 9:43:55 PM

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"Dirty Rice is made from chicken livers n gizzards & hearts so that's nothing new"

Didn't know that.

5/17/2011 6:32:01 PM

^^
was happier before I knew that...now I will never be able to eat dirty rice w/o wondering what sorts of chicken-organs are in it

5/17/2011 6:39:35 PM

i don't understand why organs are inherently disgusting to most people but [skeletal] muscle tissue is ok...?

5/17/2011 6:44:39 PM

some organs are much tastier than others . . .

5/17/2011 6:45:25 PM

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"OP needs to go to grand asia market; you ain't a man til you've had a pig uterus"

I'm open to eating a lot of stuff, and I know it makes little sense considering all the other parts I'm willing to ingest, but uterus may be where I draw the line.


And speaking of wolfpackgrrr and Japan, I did eat some strange dish in Tokyo made with horse tendons. Shit took forever to chew. Would not eat again.

5/17/2011 7:33:56 PM

Well not the BOJANGLES dirty rice...clearly that's just ground beef/sausage or whatever

True dirty rice is made from chicken livers, gizzards, hearts, etc. along with ground beef/sausage

5/17/2011 7:48:15 PM

^^ Raw horse meat is some of the best stuff ever. Not sure about tendon though. Seems like it'd be a waste of time to eat.

Another amazingly delicious thing is fried chicken cartilage. Yum yum.

5/17/2011 9:27:54 PM

People that eat like slaves ITT

5/17/2011 9:31:07 PM

People who don't live high on the hog ITT

5/17/2011 9:34:33 PM

http://www.offalgood.com/

He's got a lot of "Quit being a pussy and just eat it talk." I still want to go to his leg of beast dinner where they use the whole thing, including marrow.

They have a risotto called best parts of the chicken

5/17/2011 9:35:52 PM

^ bone marrow is one of the best tasting things on the planet, and one of the most nutritious as well.

same goes for liver.

5/18/2011 7:06:32 AM

when granny would kill chickens for pastry, she'd always get any unlaid eggs out of the hens and put them in the pastry. they'd have like a thin membrane that hadn't hardened into a shell yet. i always thought that was kinda different, but tasty.

[Edited on May 18, 2011 at 7:26 AM. Reason : ii]

5/18/2011 7:26:24 AM

I'm an offal fan.

Not on the regular or anything, but if some place I'm dining at has an offal dish that looks good you can bet I'd order that.

I also love a good liverwurst sandwhich every once and a while

5/18/2011 7:48:30 AM

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"cow tongue is good."

5/18/2011 7:55:55 AM

yeah i had some cow tongue in some tacos at one of those shady hispanic store/restaurants. the guatemalan dudes i cut grass with suggested it. wasn't bad.

5/18/2011 8:02:26 AM

Hell yeah liverwurst rocks. Sometimes I just eat it on Ritz crackers.

5/18/2011 8:09:16 AM