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"Beef brains and veal (juvenile beef) or calf's brains are used in the cuisines of France; Italy; Spain; El Salvador; Mexico, etc. where they are called sesos i

"Beef brains and veal (juvenile beef) or calf's brains are used in the cuisines of France; Italy; Spain; El Salvador; Mexico, etc. where they are called sesos in Spanish and are eaten in tacos and quesadillas; Pakistan, where they are known in Urdu as Maghaz; Portugal; Indonesia; and in the United States, especially in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Ohio River valley." People do eat cow brains...I have at regular ol' restaurants in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_brain

ekianjo 10y ago
This is true in France, but the practice of doing so is decreasing and considered "old fashioned" especially after CWD.
- ronjouch 10y ago
  Yup, it's called "tête de veau" ("veal head"), https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte_de_veau https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte_de_veau
LordKano 10y ago
When I was a kid my great-grandmother used to occasionally make and eat calf's brains. I was never willing to even consider trying it.
hfsktr 10y ago
Pork as well (unless I am misunderstanding the entry). My mom said that her grandmother would often make them Head Cheese[0] (before she learned what it was). I am happy to never have had that experience. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese
cat199 10y ago
As I understand it the biggest thing with mad-cow was not so much eating cow brains itself, but that these cows were also fed meal containing beef nervous tissue.. So, from an uninformed opinion, it could be that the disease develops or builds more rapidly in cases of 'cannibalism' (e.g. humans eating human as here, cow eating cow as in UK, etc), and then once developed can spread more easily across species.. side note: Having lived >6mo in the UK during a certain period of time, I'm ineligible to be a blood donor in the USA to this day due to the mad-cow outbreak.

ekianjo 10y ago

This is true in France, but the practice of doing so is decreasing and considered "old fashioned" especially after CWD.

ronjouch 10y ago
Yup, it's called "tête de veau" ("veal head"), https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte_de_veau https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte_de_veau

LordKano 10y ago

When I was a kid my great-grandmother used to occasionally make and eat calf's brains. I was never willing to even consider trying it.

hfsktr 10y ago

Pork as well (unless I am misunderstanding the entry). My mom said that her grandmother would often make them Head Cheese[0] (before she learned what it was). I am happy to never have had that experience. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese

cat199 10y ago

As I understand it the biggest thing with mad-cow was not so much eating cow brains itself, but that these cows were also fed meal containing beef nervous tissue.. So, from an uninformed opinion, it could be that the disease develops or builds more rapidly in cases of 'cannibalism' (e.g. humans eating human as here, cow eating cow as in UK, etc), and then once developed can spread more easily across species.. side note: Having lived >6mo in the UK during a certain period of time, I'm ineligible to be a blood donor in the USA to this day due to the mad-cow outbreak.