Meat memories

[ShiftyBagLady]

Yeh, we had liver too - still can't eat the fucking horrible stuff

You never hear anyone talking about brawn now, do you?

Ooo yeh - proper black pudding, with the right amount of fat in it, and plenty of blood

BRAWN! My Nanna used to love that stuff, shoudlnt say used to actually, she probably still does. *retches*
liver wasn't too bad, wasnt too nice either. Black pudding I enjoyed but can;t eat it anymore
So nothing very exotic, think I narrowly avoided having to eat kidney once.

 

[Diamond]

Brawn is called "head cheese" in America. That should give you some idea of what it's made of.

Yeah, I just looked that up. Talk about an unappetising name.

 

[ViolentPanda]

What's brawn? My dad starts banging on about it when he reminisces.

You take a pig's head and boil it.
When everything has cooked through, you pick the flesh, brains, tongue etc off, chop them up, put them in a loaf tin (or three) then pour the stock over it, which will set. You can then slice it and serve it in sandwiches or with salad.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

In fact, we were often left a tinned steak and kidney pie to make for dinner so I suppose that I have eaten some sort of kidney

 

[ViolentPanda]

People feeding cock to their children.

Not to mention minge. And bollocks, cant forget bollocks.

What the hell is this country coming to? I had fish fingers. If my mother had tried to feed me bollocks I would have kicked her in the shins, bid her good day and fucked off to the circus.

If your mum ever fed you cheap mince or cheap sausages then you have indeed eaten animal genitals.

You know that Yetman?

He's swallowed a bull's foreskin, he has.

 

[marty21]

boiled bacon with spuds and cabbage - hated the smell that hit me when i got in from school but dad loved it, so at least twice a week

loved mince meat and spuds and beans

roast chicken on sundays


one time, mum was in hospital for a week, and dad had to look after us, he didn't do things in small measures, he cooked a duck, a leg of lamb, and a joint of beef, plus spuds and cabbage, it was a medieval feast

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I liked bacon and cabbage but it was a bit of a novelty and a welcome relief from crispy pancakes

 

[London_Calling]

boiled bacon with spuds and cabbage - hated the smell that hit me when i got in from school but dad loved it, so at least twice a week

Spuds but no pease pudding

Two wrongs!

 

[Clair De Lune]

I was a little bit queasy reading the op, but my God it got worse!

I liked pigs trotters and heart though.

My mum only got lamb's liver cos the rest was too strong with too many pipe cleaners. I think they still do it in deli supermarkets. Pink and a bit gelatinous.

Brawn is called "head cheese" in America. That should give you some idea of what it's made of.

I would have become veggie waaaaay sooner had my mam been serving up stuff like this. We just used to have lamb chops, fish, chicken and stuff

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I have this weird urge to try tripe. I don't know what to buy or how to cook it, but whenever I go to the butchers and see this odd carpet-looking shit, I wonder what it tastes like.

 

[janeb]

We lived next door to a tripe shop (in Blackpool) so lots of tripe, trotters, brawn etc - not eaten any of the above for years but didn't mind it then

 

[London_Calling]

Is it laying on the floor?

 

[Diamond]

They're quite keen on cartilage in Hong Kong. As well as loads of different ways of doing tripe.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I can also remember eating pork chops so fatty that I had a coating of grease in my mouth for the rest of the night. Right in the roof of my mouth...
We ate some shit food.

 

[Voley]

Lungs are quite prevalent on menus in China. I managed to avoid them, funnily enough.

Best meaty thing I can remember from my childhood was my Mum's bacon and egg pie. It was awesome.

 

[Pip]

boiled bacon with spuds and cabbage - hated the smell that hit me when i got in from school but dad loved it, so at least twice a week

Sounds lully. Funnily enough I was thinking today about something my mum cooked once when I was really small - boiled bacon with leeks and cheese sauce. Mmmm I can practically taste it.

They're actually okay. They're mostly for making stews gelatinous.

I have this weird urge to try tripe. I don't know what to buy or how to cook it, but whenever I go to the butchers and see this odd carpet-looking shit, I wonder what it tastes like.

South Americans love it, you can definitely get it in Brixton.

 

[Mungy]

haslet and ulster fry were my favourites when i was little. neither of which taste anything like the stuff we used to have.

my mum and dad used to eat hodge. i tried it once and was not impressed. my mum and nan used to eat tripe. i never risked it

 

[FridgeMagnet]

They're quite keen on cartilage in Hong Kong. As well as loads of different ways of doing tripe.

Surely you can't actually eat cartilage? Well, you can't chew it up, I suppose you could swallow it. Or can it be cooked so that it's edible?

 

[mrsfran]

Lungs are quite prevalent on menus in China. I managed to avoid them, funnily enough.

Best meaty thing I can remember from my childhood was my Mum's bacon and egg pie. It was awesome.

Lungs are sold here euphemistically as "lights". You can get them easily in halal butchers.

You can get ANY kind of meat product in halal butchers.


Well, except pork.

 

[Pip]

haslet and ulster fry were my favourites when i was little. neither of which taste anything like the stuff we used to have.

my mum and dad used to eat hodge. i tried it once and was not impressed. my mum and nan used to eat tripe. i never risked it

Is hodge mutton?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What sort of meat did you eat as a kid? And I'm counting offal here

We used to have roast lamb hearts as a substitute for other meat of a Sunday, cos they were cheap, and they tasted fucking well fine

Pigs brains were a regular thing, as well as brawn and tongue

My dad loved his tripe - although that was a 'special dad food' - no one else ever had it (or wanted it, tbh)

My mother used to make the bestest steak and kidney pie in the world too - but whenever I fry kidneys, they just smell of piss

You?

Beef, chicken, fish. The worst it ever got was liver. I've tried steak and kidney pie.

No brain, tongue, heart. No blood sausage, no blood pudding. No tripe.

Pig's knuckle: yes.

 

[tarannau]

I ate pretty much the same stuff as I eat now I guess, with the exception of less black pudding I guess. My gran used to go off to the market for big bags of blood, to be mixed with bonnets/wirries and rice into beautiful puddingness. Everyone was gutted when they banned the sale of blood direct to the public.

Probably ate more trotters and pig face too. And I remember having a strange love of 'Breakfast Slices' - a kind of cheap pressed bacon substitute that tasted salty and grand.

 

[Pip]

^ Yep, nothing like a boiled pig's head on a cold evening

 

[Mungy]

Is hodge mutton?

pig stomach i think.

 

[Callie]

I grew up with my Nan and Granddad and we had lamb's hearts (stuffed with paxo ), steak and kidney pudding and liver and bacon but I didn't like liver *yuk* probably cos my Nan used to cook it til it was leathery. We never really had kidney's on their own.

My Nan used to make brawn occasionally too but I don't ever remember seeing pigs heads in the kitchen? Maybe they hid it from me or used something else, so it wasn't proper brawn but a similar thing?

 

[geminisnake]

I don't really remember much about food in childhood. I remember chips, fish fingers, chicken at the weekend, I think there was also probably mince/sausages/stew which would have been in a butchers pack. I'm so glad I don't remember any of the yuk some of you used to eat!!

I think I lived on fish fingers for a while when I was 9/10.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I am finding this thread facinating in a proper horror show kinda way

 

[chemn]

Tongue, hog's pud, black pud, liver, snake and pygmie pie... yum!

 

[Callie]

pork chops which had a bit of kidney attached!

 

[Diamond]

Surely you can't actually eat cartilage? Well, you can't chew it up, I suppose you could swallow it. Or can it be cooked so that it's edible?

The cartilage was a kind of skewered late night street food and it looked very tough indeed. I don't know whether you were just supposed to chew on it for a bit and then swallow it down. It was cut up quite small. I didn't try it.

I couldn't bring myself to try the tripe either. It had its own section and you could see it boiling away in a vat in big sheets before being cut up and fried. There was a distinctly iffy smell wafting off of it and over that section of the stall.