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Someone over on the "dinner tonight" thread was going to eat scrapple--my word editor says that is not even a word, much less a food.
There is lots of weird meat out there (Huckabee recently admitted to eating squirrel cooked in a popcorn popper).
What is your favorite strange meat?
Ps--the word "puppet" is not allowed on this thread......
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« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2008, 02:07:00 PM » |
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« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2008, 02:09:46 PM » |
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I signed on because I thought this was going to be an unbelievably crude, men-only thread.
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« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2008, 02:26:16 PM » |
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mmm.... scrapple....
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« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2008, 02:26:55 PM » |
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Are beagles permitted as a subject here?
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« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2008, 02:31:22 PM » |
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Reindeer was on the menu at most restaurants I went to in Finland.
I have NEVER eaten mountain oysters.
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« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2008, 02:33:55 PM » |
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Scrapple is a word in some dialects of American English. Just not in your word editor's dialect, apparently. It's perfectly normal in rural communities all over - not even just in the South.
Is chorizo weird? I heart chorizo.
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« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2008, 02:36:40 PM » |
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Prairie Oysters (bull's unmentionables)
Mountain Chicken (frog)
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« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2008, 02:37:35 PM » |
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Is chorizo weird?
Depends, are we talking Spanish chorizo, or Mexican chorizo? Only one is high in salivary glands and lymph nodes. Mmmm-MMMHH! |
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« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2008, 02:40:21 PM » |
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According to my mom, scrapple is more likely to be found in Philadelphia or some such place in that region. Her scrapple was tame. It just had ham in it and not any organ meats.
Chorizo is good or bad, depending on how many fillers are put in. The amount of filler depends on the economic level of the person making it. Or at least that was what I learned in my meats class.
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« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2008, 03:01:48 PM » |
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Mexican chorizo, of course. The Spanish stuff is good too, but I tend toward Mexico.
Scrapple can also be found in Western and Central Pennsylvania (particularly in Amish and Mennonite country all around there), and also south of the Mason-Dixon line. My grandfather (who lived his entire life below that line) would often get paid (in part) with homemade meat products, including fresh scrapple.
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« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2008, 03:04:57 PM » |
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Oh, yes, it's a popular artery-clogging breakfast food, perfect for going with hash browns and eggs. And if there's pudding on the menu, it's made of liver.
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« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2008, 03:28:32 PM » |
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My dad makes a mean moose sausage. That's not all that weird, though.
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« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2008, 03:41:42 PM » |
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A group of us ate moose meat once; we'd had a friend procure it. It was, well, an interesting experience. But I don't go with odd organ meat (tongue, tail, brains, etc.) in general.
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« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2008, 04:20:11 PM » |
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Moose tenderloin is tasty.
Eating jellyfish was like eating a box of rubber bands.
Where I grew up there is scrapple (aka pon haus), puddin' meat, and souse. Puddin' meat is basically the remnants of butchering, cooked down in a pot and ground up. Stuff like the hog skin, bones, livers, and kidneys. Add some cornmeal and you've got pon haus. I can deal with scrapple/pon haus, since that is usually fried up and served with maple syrup. Puddin' meat just makes me gag; it can be really greasy.
Souse (rhymes with house) is cooked pigs feet, which results in meat pieces surrounded by jelly. Usually eaten cold. And then there is head cheese which is similar to souse but involves, well, the pig head. And some vinegar.
One of my friends offered my cat a taste of souse, and she tried to bury it. I think this means something.
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