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If people learned to love organ meats again, the proportion would probably be very different. So many people, especially in the west, will only eat muscle tiss
by ravenstine 6y ago
If people learned to love organ meats again, the proportion would probably be very different. So many people, especially in the west, will only eat muscle tissue, and even then they prefer it to be very lean. Too bad for them... more tongue, liver, and tripe for me!
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoTongue, heart and stomach is kinda muscle- ish, but generally a delicacy! Not a fan of liver or kidney though!
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoYes the local taqueria has those in tacos. A nice change!
- ravenstine 6y agoLingua tacos and burritos are killer! That's all I order most of the time now. Some places are afraid to serve it to me because I'm white and they think I'll hate it. I always have to insist upon it! Makes it extra special IMO. haha
- aantix 6y agoI've read they're more nutritious than muscle tissue. But I remember as a kid, hating the smell of liver. Maybe I should revisit.
- powersnail 6y agoTrying them at Asian restaurants might be a viable option for you. They usually eliminate the smell, but mostly use the texture.
- elorant 6y agoYou could try leave it for a few hours inside a bowl of milk. It helps remove a lot of its smell. Then you wash it and cook it. Also, here's a recipe that I've used with excellent results. Page is through Google Translate so forgive any errors. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=el&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcaruso.gr%2Ftelio-sykoti-psito%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=el&tl=en&u=h...
- bozzcl 6y agoAnd blood sausages.
- orra 6y agoHaggis is made from offal, and is absolutely delicious. You can't buy the real stuff in the U.S.A., however, because apparently eating cooked ground up lung is dangerous. Drivel.
- pcstl 6y agoPeople mostly stopped eating organ meats for social reasons - organ meats were associated with the poor, so not eating organ meats was a way to signal you were high class. I think it's the right time to bring eating organs back!
- pvaldes 6y agoPeople stopped eating organ meats because organs are the unsafe parts in general. Inner parasites acumulate and live on them and some accumulate nasty substances. Is perfectly possible to die poisoned after eating a mammal liver.
- pcstl 6y agoBeef liver is perfectly safe to eat. I wouldn't eat a bear liver, but we usually have enough knowledge to be able to deal with that.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoSo few eat such things around here, you can't even find them at the butchers'. The exception is the more exotic pork - face, jowls, trotters, skin. Still meat (sort of) but getting out there. Italian cooks have taught us to love pancetta, guanciale and the like.
- cgriswald 6y agoI’m not sure where you’re located, but here in the Bay you can find most of this stuff at Asian markets like 99 Ranch.
- cgriswald 6y agoTongue and tripe are both muscle tissue. I can handle heart, tongue, liver, kidney, pancreas, etc. But tripe I can smell a mile away and I find it very offensive. I don’t know that I can ever learn to eat it short of a starvation experience.