Meat memories

[sojourner]

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

Really?

It was all very normal to me as a kid. We ate cheap stuff cos my parents were always skint

 

[tarannau]

TBH, they may have been cheap cuts but they were recognisable bits of animal. With the gift of retrospect my old gran's trotters and black pudding recipes were far more wholesome than the dodgy sausages that were sold at the time

 

[Fuchs66]

Both parents unemployed in the 70s and 80s soooo we made the most of what we had:

Brains
Brawn
Pigs trotters
Left over bacon bones from the butchers
heart, liver kidneys

You name it we ate it

(all topped up with various rabbits, pigeons, pheasants etc that me and my brothers would poach from the local area)

E2A the funny thing is that all you lot going "ewwwwww" at us offal eaters probably ate much, much worse in all your overprocessed crap

 

[elevendayempire]

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.

Mmm om nom nom nom. God, I haven't had them for ages. I want them now.

 

[sojourner]

Mmm om nom nom nom. God, I haven't had them for ages. I want them now.

Heh, I know - I'm considering getting some in for old times sake. I'd lay money on my daughter being disgusted by them though

 

[cesare]

pork chops which had a bit of kidney attached!

I'd forgotten about those! They were great

 

[TruXta]

Growing up in the countryside there'd always be some cheap cuts on the table. Black pudding (with sugar on top!), mashed lungs (actually consisting of mashed lungs, as well as hearts, the meat(?) off the pig's head ++), pigs' trotters once or twice, loads of liver which I quite liked but have never done after starting making my own meals. Also fish roe, fish and cow tongue, fish liver (great lightly poached alongside steamed white fish) and fish eyes, just once on a dare.

Then again, if you've ever had a cheap sausage, burger or any kind of reconstituted meat chances are approx. 100% that you've eaten pretty much every edible part off an animal. Which is how it should be obv. Waste not, want not etc.

 

[The39thStep]

Agree with all the offal , and also rabbit , pink veal and sweetbreads

 

[Infidel Castro]

Faggots. I loved me some faggots.

 

[ohmyliver]

black pudding. Especially the spanish black pudding. My father used to cook Carn d'Olla with Pilota at Christmas time (it's a Catalan Christmas dish, which my grandfather used to cook, and I shall attempt to cook it this year). That requires ham bones, and salt pork.

Used to have brawn a fair bit when we were little, which then in the BSE scare bit caused my mother no end of mother-guilt-angst.

had liver at school, but it was cooked to rubbish. looked like little turds floating in a grey sauce, and tasted not much better. I love liver now.

We'd have roast chicken, then risotto to make the chicken last. Red meat was rare until they became financially settled. In fact I once said 'meat! my favourite' when we went to my grand parents for a sunday roast when I was little.

 

[RubyToogood]

Ooh yeah, Brain's faggots, with peas, mmmm.
Also sweetbreads which I believe are the thymus gland (whatever that is), fried with bacon. I loved them so much I used to ask for them on my birthday. Very delicate flavour they have, not offaly at all.
Best childhood meat memory is my mother's pot roast chicken which had bacon and little baby onions in.

Oh and I still love a bit of tongue from time to time...

 

[RubyToogood]

We'd have roast chicken, then risotto to make the chicken last. Red meat was rare until they became financially settled.

Oh yes, my mother did the proper roast then leftovers for 3 days cycle. She did a lovely pilaf, I have no idea how she did it and must ask her.

 

[ohmyliver]

Oh yes, my mother did the proper roast then leftovers for 3 days cycle. She did a lovely pilaf, I have no idea how she did it and must ask her.

I've started doing that myself. Seems a shame not to make stock, and meals with the left overs.

 

[spanglechick]

we def had hearts. also liver and bacon, and steak and kiddley pudding is top stuff.

tbh now, it's just the smell (sometimes) and the textures that are offputting. i'll eat eanything minced, like in haggis. i also have no objection to arseholes and eyelids sausages / mince etc.