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30 Oct 21 - 10:02 AM (#4124662) Subject: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome Maybe not as political as the original thread but more fun. And tastier! :D |
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30 Oct 21 - 10:31 AM (#4124665) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Mrrzy Ok I read this as Triple, and was quite confused... |
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30 Oct 21 - 11:04 AM (#4124669) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Senoufou Hahaaa!!! Just after the War we had tripe regularly. My mother bought it from our local butcher, wrapped in newspaper (!) and braised it slowly. We really liked it, and it was very cheap. Imagine today's youngsters accepting that! |
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30 Oct 21 - 04:51 PM (#4124687) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Rusty Dobro My job used to take me onto a Polish ship on a remote quayside at seven o’clock in the morning. Business done, the captain always insisted that I stay for breakfast, which was usually tripe cooked in milk. A challenge, but at least I knew that the day could only get better from then on. |
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31 Oct 21 - 03:19 AM (#4124711) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Mr Red Now tell me. What did Britain, en mass, think of it when the phrase "what a load of tripe" became part of the language? And my udder question is "is elder cooked in milk?" (no, I never heard of it either) |
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31 Oct 21 - 03:48 AM (#4124714) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Senoufou Oh, my mother used to tell us about 'elder' (cow's udder, a bit like tripe) but said she couldn't get it at our butcher's. She was Irish (from Cork) so maybe 'elder' is an Irish term? |
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31 Oct 21 - 05:19 AM (#4124717) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome No, we had elder in Manchester as well. |
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31 Oct 21 - 12:01 PM (#4124763) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Charmion DtG, maybe the Irish famine refugees who flooded Manchester in the 1840s brought the word with them. I used to like braised tripe with prunes and onions, but then I read “The Road to Wigan Pier” by George Orwell. Haven’t touched the stuff since. |
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31 Oct 21 - 01:35 PM (#4124771) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome My mate, Mike, used to work in a place next to the tripe works. He said that the smell was horrendous but after 56 months he was down to throwing up only twice a day :-) |
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31 Oct 21 - 01:36 PM (#4124772) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome Should have read 5 or 6 months but maybe it was 56 after all :-D |
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31 Oct 21 - 04:32 PM (#4124789) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Charmion's brother Andrew Nice catch, DtG. |
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01 Nov 21 - 05:55 AM (#4124841) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome Not sure what that means in this context but thanks anyway Andrew :-) |
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01 Nov 21 - 06:55 AM (#4124846) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: G-Force I was always dubious about tripe until I worked in a place where the canteen occasionally put on 'tripe and onions' for lunch. It was in a kind of cross between thick onion sauce and French onion soup, and I got to really like it. In France I've sometimes gone for 'tripes a la mode de Caen', but somehow it doesn't really do it for me. |
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01 Nov 21 - 09:07 AM (#4124860) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome Mrs G has a couple of tripe recipes I really like. One is quite traditional - Done with onions in a thick creamy sauce and served with crusty bread. The other is to cut the tripe into small strips then coat the strips in breadcrumbs and fry them. Very fiddly but you end up with something remarkably similar to scampi and, in my opinion, more tasty. |
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01 Nov 21 - 09:42 AM (#4124866) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome Hey - And I've just overtaken the US ripe for a takeover thread :-D |
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01 Nov 21 - 02:47 PM (#4124907) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Lurcherman My Yorkshire parents used to eat tripe and onions cooked in milk. The smell was so bad I had to leave the house when they were cooking it… |
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01 Nov 21 - 04:31 PM (#4124916) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome Tripe has very little smell when cooking as long as it is fresh and well cleaned. I can't remember it from my youth as I don't think my Mother ever cooked it. When Mrs G does it there is little or no odour at all. Just looking it up now and it can smell depending on the cow's diet but of it is well washed first any of that should go. |
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01 Nov 21 - 04:37 PM (#4124917) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome Of course the way to avoid the cooking smells is to eat it raw with lots of vinegar and pepper. Mmmmmmmmm That was my introduction to it ay the UCP restaurant on Market Street in Manchester. I still enjoy it like that. I blame my east European background :-D |
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02 Nov 21 - 05:52 AM (#4124963) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Backwoodsman Every time I see the title of this thread, I read it as ‘The U.K. has a triple makeover’. The first time I saw it, my immediate thought was, “Wooooo-hoo! Johnson, Raab, and not-so-Priti Patel, all gone together at the same time!”. Oops, wrong thread… ;-) |
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02 Nov 21 - 08:34 PM (#4125022) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: keberoxu Is haggis relative to the subject of this thread ?? |
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02 Nov 21 - 08:44 PM (#4125023) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: keberoxu And then there is the definition relevant to Mr. Red's post. tripe noun Ideas, suggestions, or writings that are stupid, silly, or have little value Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus, Cambridge University Press |
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03 Nov 21 - 09:36 AM (#4125062) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome Haggis can be related. There are an offal lot of other things that can be included as well. See what I did there :-D |
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03 Nov 21 - 10:42 AM (#4125070) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Mr Red haggis is not in the same bag see what I did there? {:-} |
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03 Nov 21 - 12:15 PM (#4125077) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Senoufou Ooooh I adore haggis! (drools) When I lived in Edinburgh and then Glasgow I ate more haggis than the Scots did I think. My husband likes it too (he pronounces it 'ageese) |
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03 Nov 21 - 02:09 PM (#4125085) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Steve Shaw Haggis is glorious, as long as it's McSween's. |
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03 Nov 21 - 02:16 PM (#4125086) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Steve Shaw It's Macsween's, dammit! |
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03 Nov 21 - 02:31 PM (#4125088) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Senoufou Yes! Yes! MacSweens is the best, definitely. They were voted 'Chieftain O' The Pudding Race' in 2020. The number of Burns Suppers I've attended, when the dagger is plunged into a haggis (piped in on a dish) after the Robert Burns poem is recited. "Fair fa yer honest sonsie face...". |
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03 Nov 21 - 02:33 PM (#4125089) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Senoufou Ha! That should of course be Macsweens! (small s) |
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03 Nov 21 - 02:55 PM (#4125093) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome We have a Haggis farm near us. Honest! Shame that they can't spell in Yorkshire though :-D |
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05 Nov 21 - 09:19 AM (#4125233) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Dave the Gnome We are having liver for tea tomorrow :-) Just by way of keeping this thread afloat :D |
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05 Nov 21 - 09:32 AM (#4125237) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Senoufou I hate to confess this, but I have always loved RAW lamb's liver and RAW kidneys!! Washed, cut into small pieces and enjoyed as a nice little snack. As a child I even used to eat raw pork sausages and raw beef mince. But just recently,my fierce and bossy (but very kind) sister, the retired doctor, had steam coming out of her ears when I told her this. She said to stop it at once! Because I could ingest E Coli and become very ill. So I have to do as I'm told. :( |
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06 Nov 21 - 11:23 AM (#4125350) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Thompson I loathe tripe, but the fried-in-breadcrumbs sounds very possible, must try it sometime. At the moment I'm in jelly-making mode; have made apple jelly and quince cheese and am about to make quince jelly - any tips gratefully accepted, as I haven't made this jelly before. |
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08 Nov 21 - 02:15 PM (#4125562) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: robomatic I ordered tripe in a local Mexican restaurant. It is a common soup dish you've all heard of: menudo. It consisted of a dark brown broth and was entirely edible, but the combination of the fluid, the floaty bloaty tripes and my facility with a soup spoon led to my business shirt getting, for want of a better word, dappled. No one commented on it in tye extremely important engineering meeting I then attended, but they might have been wondering why I had a lot of graphs and notes clutched to my chest for a long while. |
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09 Nov 21 - 06:26 AM (#4125609) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Steve Shaw Ha. Not closely connected, but that reminds me of a lesson I was taking with a feisty bunch of fifteen-year-olds when my zip suddenly broke. I spent the whole lesson talking to them from behind a tall pile of biology textbooks on the teacher's desk. They were puzzled by my refusal to circulate around the room, as was my usual wont. Nobody twigged... |
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09 Nov 21 - 03:00 PM (#4125648) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: robomatic LOL Dick Cavett (the well known American talkshow host of the 80s) told a story about having a guest come out and reveal to him but not the audience that his fly was wide open. He knew that all the guest had to do was sit down in the open format swivel chairs and pivot his chair and be 'revealed' so he quickly said "let's play a game before you sit down. Do everything I do..." he put his back to the audience and bent his elbows and said: "One of us has our fly unzipped. We're going to go through the motions and then sit down and chat!" |
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09 Nov 21 - 07:44 PM (#4125679) Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover From: Steve Shaw As we say, the cage door may have been open but at least the beast was asleep... |