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STRANGE FOOD

The 'Slow Boat' in Digbeth got done a few times for that as well. When there was a spate of 'Missing cat ' reports, they used to get raided.
 
That's a damed slur!

Mind you, I once had 'tiddles' in fried rice there.. 8)
 
Another damped slurp

:shock: When i wuz in the Congo i eat Snake & Pygmy pie :)
Only little portions but very nice :roll:
 
I agree with Di, cats and dogs shouldn't be eaten. They are far too chewy and hard to digest. :twisted:
 
You gonna use aspic or gelatine to set your dog Di? :twisted:
 
I always enjoyed the food in the Slow Boat. Isn't that what gave Catonese cooking its name?
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Vets

8) Tut tut Gentlemen :twisted: i shall have to report these canibalistic PETrified animalistic eating malfunctions to the Vetinarian society :roll:
or is the vegetarians or vegans or the hug a tree don,t wee up it people :oops:
Anyway,,If you don,t like Pets,,leave em on the side of yer plate,, ok :wink:
 
Strange Foods!!!!!!

Now then lookee here me fine friends,you may mention all those exotic
dishes, But,You know it makes sense,you cannot beat a nice newspaper full of fish & Chips, plenty of salt & vinegar walking home in the evening just enjoying them as you go along Lovely Grub what I say's mmYum yum
 
But even fish can be pets (not so sure about chips though).

Anyway did you see where the restaurant serving squirrel, which started this topic, recently had to take it off the menu? The premises were vandalised and many of the staff received threats from so called animal lovers?

When you think of all the nice little creatures we eat, why should these furry-tailed-good-f'nuttin'-else-rats who continuously wreck my garden get special protection?
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Talking of strange food, we went out to lunch today and I ordered warm artichoke salad with salsify?, and a dish of hand cut chips. The salad was a plate of beans with a couple of leaves and a few bits of artichoke, I was glad I'd ordered the chips. It cost a tenner. :roll:
 
:shock: Well Gordon Bleu :!: I would have cashed me Chips in
me Atrirrys would Leaves me no tips cuz i woulda Choked at the £tenner

:roll: At that price I would insist on hand picked & rolled agains,t a maidens thigh :!:
Or even a Student Princes :P Now theres an Artichoker :?:
 
Peter I think the artichokes could even have been from a tin. :roll:

Definitely not rolled JY, against anything.

PS no tip left. :D
 
THERE IS A MUSLIM MEAT PLANT IN MAYO, IRELAND, WHICH PROCESSES A LOT OF GOAT. OF COURSE THEY ARE MAD ON SHEEP AND COWS AS WELL. FILTHY MESS OF AN OPERATION. BASICALLY IF YOU GET CAPITALIZED BY THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING. SO NOW THE WATER TABLE IS FILTHED WITH PIG SLURRY. THAT OF COURSE DOES NOT APPLY TO MOSLEMS.

UNTIL THE 1960s RABBIT AND HARE WERE COMMON AT BOTH BUTCHERS AND GREEN GROCERS ABOUT TOWN. SQUIRRELS WERE NOT UP ON THE LIST. THE NATIVE ONE IS RED AND WAS EXTERMINATED (EFFECTIVELY) BY AN ENGLISH CRANK WHO INTRODUCED THE GREY ITEM FROM NORTH AMERICA.

THERE ARE OLD COOK BOOKS WITH RECIPES FOR ALL KINDS OF GAME. FOR THOSE WHO COULD AFFORD IT OFF THE BACKS OF THE TOILING MASSES IT WAS STANDARD TO PREPARE A ROAST OF SEVERAL CREATURES WITHIN: THAT IS DIMINISHING SIZE.
HOW THEY WERE CARVED I DO NOT KNOW. OF COURSE IN THOSE DAYS THEY WERE NOT BOMBARDED WITH ELECTRICITY AND FRANTIC STUFF.
 
Stuart was your gran related to mine?? ha ha
My grans speciality was also pigs tails and pearl barley!! I used to love it as it was a soup like dish to eat with bread - it tasted nice - but one day when I was about 6 I actually saw the pigs tails going into pot!! (or were they ox tails? ha ha long squiggly looking things ergh!!)

Never touched it since!!

Just like when I found out OX tongue was really a tongue!! It spoilt all my fun finding out what went into foods and dishes - so much more picky these days than I were as a child!! I am sure sometimes ignorance is bliss - cause I ate and enjoyed thise things many years ago - now I would touch them!!
 
Please don't knock Ox Tongue. I have written elsewhere about my mother-in-law's tongue - it was out of this world. She got this big lump of dead cow flesh and boiled and boiled and boiled it. Forget the smell. The sauce with Madeira Port made it a dream to eat. It was a labour-saving dish to prepare, although not an instant food, and a lot cheaper than most alternatives.
I couldn't knock it.
Peter
 
I love Tongue.....  It's obviously not something we prepare at home, but we buy it from Asda  ^-^ I love it on a sandwich. Mom used to prepare tongue herself, as Peter says it was boiled, I cant remember the smell. I like heart too, lambs or ox heart, we make stews and currys with it. It's fantastic stuff and I think it has to be healthy to eat too? It doesnt taste anything like liver or kidney it has a different but distinct taste all of it's own. Mom and dad ate pigs feet, I couldn't stand them.... but I seem to remember enjoying the liquid with some pepper for seasoning.
 
Ahhhh!
Stuffed Heart!
That was our Sunday Special Treat during WW2 if we could get one. A bit tough if overcooked though. I think it would be best braised, but I've never had the heart to try,if you get my meaning.
Peter
 
I'd forgotten stuffed heart.... mom used to do individual lambs hearts stuffed. :smitten: I wonder now what was in them? :smitten:
 
Pigs feet.
As a kid we regularly had pigs feet, with a chunk of bread, on a Saturday night.
Always remember how my fingers used to stick together whilst eating them.  Better than Evostick

Rod - Are hearts are filled with sage stuffing and cooked very slowly - beatiful.
Will.
 
My nan used to cook cows heart with stuffing,it was lovely,but dont think i could stomach it now :buck2:
 
Dave, your description of High Tea 1950s Style, was spot on, I could see it all in my mind's eye, and could almost smell the cucumber in vinegar, my mom always used to cut a Spanish onion and add this to the concoction. Did your mom also have special glass dishes for certain foods, mine did. A large green glass bowl for the peaches, and a long square dish for tinned pears which usually had some tinned cherries added to give some colour, excluding the cherry juice. Oh how lovely it would be to go to "our mom's" for Sunday tea just once more, and to exchange all the family news and gossip.
 
Langstraat I could almost be there, but that would be playing Gooseberry.... I dislike Advocado it's grossly overated in my opinion.

We had High Tea every Sunday prepared in almost the same way, I liked the home made pickle. I will still eat piccallili spread directly on bread MMMmmm. We had fruit and Carnation Evaporated milk with our fruit, I used to dip bread and butter into it, the very thought makes my stomach turn now...YAK

My brother Alan and I used to argue over washing up on Sundays after Tea, the stone sink became the English Channel and we'd fight great sea battles of ww2 in the sudsy water. The suds were created with one of those handles with the porous container on the end for putting peices of old soap, you'd then swish it around in the water and behold Suds!!! I had a big plastic army truck that I used to transport the dishes to the sink!!

I think I might very well try stuffing some Heart, sounds delightfull.

I wish you could still buy Chitterlings how they were served up in Aston, the last time I saw them they seemed to be compressed and sliced, served much more like ham? We used to eat Chitterlings on Saturday Dinnertimes with a little salt and bread and butter, I remember them as being sort of Greasy? but with a taste all of their own..... Ive not had tripe for for years, wouldnt mind trying it again?
 
I can't get BRAWN at Sainsbury's now why? :-\ I've corrected the name Postie been eating to many handbags ::)
 
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