BS: The UK has a tripe makeover

Subject: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 10:02 AM

Maybe not as political as the original thread but more fun.

And tastier!


:D

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 10:31 AM

Ok I read this as Triple, and was quite confused...

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 11:04 AM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 04:51 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 03:19 AM

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)

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 03:48 AM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 05:19 AM

No, we had elder in Manchester as well.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Charmion
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 12:01 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 01:35 PM

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 :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 01:36 PM

Should have read 5 or 6 months but maybe it was 56 after all :-D

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 04:32 PM

Nice catch, DtG.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 05:55 AM

Not sure what that means in this context but thanks anyway Andrew :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: G-Force
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 06:55 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 09:07 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 09:42 AM

Hey - And I've just overtaken the US ripe for a takeover thread :-D

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Lurcherman
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 02:47 PM

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…

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 04:31 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 04:37 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Nov 21 - 05:52 AM

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… ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Nov 21 - 08:34 PM

Is haggis relative to the subject of this thread ??

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Nov 21 - 08:44 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 09:36 AM

Haggis can be related. There are an offal lot of other things that can be included as well.

See what I did there :-D

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 10:42 AM

haggis is not in the same bag

see what I did there? {:-}

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 12:15 PM

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)

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 02:09 PM

Haggis is glorious, as long as it's McSween's.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 02:16 PM

It's Macsween's, dammit!

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 02:31 PM

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...".

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 02:33 PM

Ha! That should of course be Macsweens! (small s)

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 02:55 PM

We have a Haggis farm near us. Honest!

Shame that they can't spell in Yorkshire though :-D

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Nov 21 - 09:19 AM

We are having liver for tea tomorrow :-)

Just by way of keeping this thread afloat

:D

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Senoufou
Date: 05 Nov 21 - 09:32 AM

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. :(

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Thompson
Date: 06 Nov 21 - 11:23 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: robomatic
Date: 08 Nov 21 - 02:15 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 06:26 AM

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...

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: robomatic
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 03:00 PM

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!"

Subject: RE: BS: The UK has a tripe makeover
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 07:44 PM

As we say, the cage door may have been open but at least the beast was asleep...