The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31534   Message #414706
Posted By: Gervase
10-Mar-01 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: foot and mouth
Subject: RE: BS: foot and mouth
Grab - so right! What is wrong with people that they won't eat offal (or meat at all, unless it's pre-prepared, bloodless and wrapped in sanitised plastic)?
Give me the inner organs of beasts and fowls - nutty gizzards and kidneys with a faint tang or urine - any day.
But that's one of the problems surely; people don't like their food to taste of anything. I remember buying some cheese a couple of weeks back and the Saturday kid behind the counter apologised because it was "on the turn". It wasn't - it was just coming to perfection (which, being a Chaume, was pretty bloody pungent, I have to confess), but when I got him to taste a bit he could finally see that it was meant to hum, and that the stinky, gamey taste was actually what it was all about. But he still let me have it half price because "most people don't like it when it's gone this far". Maybe I should give him some of my jugged hare...
Or maybe I'm just strange. I do like food that stands up and demands attentiom though. Andouilettes, stuffed hearts, tripe, tongue, brawn, haggis, oxtail, trotters, devilled kidneys...Ah, all those bits that now go into pet food and cheapo pies that we used to love for themselves.
(sighs and slinks off to inspect the fridge, looking for the most pungent thing in there....)