Prompted by a post in a comm about vegetarian haggis.

[conuly]

Maybe I'm the only one to grasp this, but you don't want to eat haggis. Not even the vegetarian kind. Nor do you want to eat sausage, which is made up of all the parts of the animal you can't sell. Or chitlins, or frogs legs, or snails, or kidney anything. These aren't foods you want to eat, they're foods eaten by people who can't afford any good cuts of meat. The only reason other people eat them is because if they didn't, they'd have to admit that their ancestors were too poor to eat any decent food.

Intestines. Ugh.

Comments

[rachelkachel]

I noticed something odd about me at breakfast this morning: I carefully pick all the vaguely gross bits out of sliced ham, but I'll happily eat sausage, which I know is even worse. *shrugs* It's just a psychological thing, I guess... Sausage tastes good.

I don't think I could eat haggis, though.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

I thought the whole point of haggis was that it was unutterably gross and sheepy.

[conuly]

And has oatmeal...?

[conuly]

Neither could I.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

huh. me and my family eat them because they're tasty.

...Well, sausage and 'chitlins' (we call those porkskins.), anyway.

Some people like the taste of them.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

we eat vegetarian chorizo, which is pretty nasty stuff in meat-form, I hear. Same with veggie "hot dogs."

[conuly]

Brainwashing.

[pyrokinesis.livejournal.com]

Or different strokes for different folks. My tastebuds enjoy sausage, too.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

The one thing that I always think about when this comes up is scrapple. Even the name sounds gross. At least it's descriptive though.

From la casa de scrapple (http://www.chickenhead.com/stuff/scrapple/): Scrapple, on the other hand, is an amalgamation of tendons, cartilage, feet, skin, ears, nose, gums and more. In short, it's all the garbage that should be thrown away.

It tastes really good. I just wish it didnt have such nasty crap in it. :P

[ironychan.livejournal.com]

What? Organs are where all the vitamins are!

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Oh, c'mon. Much like peas bonne femme, which have been improved beyond the housewife's dreams, those dishes can be delicious when prepared with modern care for the ingredients.

Exhibit A, my uncle William's pigs and the sausage patties made therefrom. Care was taken with the feeding and butchering and sausagemaking (if it was beef, it would have been stew meat--instead, it was pork, so the trimmings were ground into sausage).

I've had haggis recently (Thursday, as a matter of fact, though it was only a taste and not a full serving), and I agree with its origins. It's not something I would rush back for, but then, I dislike liver in general, much less as part of a meatloaf analogue.

I will also point out that many cookbook authors have asked why certain cuts of meat are "better" than others (besides sheer snobbery).

[conuly]

I will also point out that many cookbook authors have asked why certain cuts of meat are "better" than others (besides sheer snobbery).

Because they are. *nods selfrighteously*

It all depends on who's making it, doesn't it?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Get ahold of some smoked pork and make your own (http://www.livejournal.com/users/marveen/74890.html) scrapple....or ponice, or cornmeal mush, or whatever your family calls it.

I know that when MY mother made ponice (as we called it in our household), she only diced up decent meat to go into the finished product.

[deathchibi.livejournal.com]

Well, my family eats sausage. Guess we're all just poor peons.

[conuly]

Just peasants. But rich ones, you get meat.

[deathchibi.livejournal.com]

Woo! And a wagon, too? Nah, I think my ancestors probably did alright, all things considered.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I do, on occasion, eat sausage, though I make certain to buy "all-beef" or "pure pork" sausage. But then, I'm poor.

Same with weiners. All-beef, or all-chicken.

[conuly]

In truth, I eat sausages too. The kind with "natural casing". I just don't defend the action.

[stejcruetekie.livejournal.com]

Beef? How could *anyone* dare to eat beef, coming from a cow? You do know that cows are sacred, right?

Maybe not here in the US, but in certain other parts of the world cows are considered sacred. Those people are as aghast at the thought that we eat cows as we are at their eating monkeys or whatever.

Food is all relative. If it's edible, it's edible.

[conuly]

Hm...

*goes out and kills the noisy neighbors*

They look yummy.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Steak and kidney pie = yummy
Steak pie = less yummy

Should I also not eat Cornish Pasties and admit that in the past people had to go down mines and work with arsenic all day? Or pasta and admit that life in the Italian countryside was hard?

Real haggis. (http://www.ie.lspace.org/fandom/afp/timelines/haggis.html)

[stejcruetekie.livejournal.com]

That's just screaming for a sexual comments.. But I disgress..

In some cultures that'd be perfectly OK. So unless there's some really good argument for why one can't kill and eat humans, there's not much that can be considered wrong with cannibalism.

Not that I'm advocating it mind you, I'm just saying...

[conuly]

I agree.

You're no fun today. *sniffles*

[conuly]

*blinks*

What do Cornish Pasties and Pasta have to do with intestines?

[stejcruetekie.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'd be more fun if I had followed through on the sexual comment about eating people :P

But I'm trying to, you know, tame that part of me, since it seems to turn people off..