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"I think it hilarious when people like me, urban dwellers, tell me to my face they only buy meat from some small butcher because they only trust him, or some va
by roel_v 5y ago
"I think it hilarious when people like me, urban dwellers, tell me to my face they only buy meat from some small butcher because they only trust him, or some variation of that story."
I bought half a pig some time ago; I have a copy of his (probably 'her'?) earmark here next to me on my desk. I get an invitation each year to go watch it when it goes out to pasture for the first time that year. I can choose to have the half delivered to me as a carcass, for me to do my own butchering, or I can choose to have it processed (and I can choose to give away the parts I'm not going to eat, like the blood sausage and the processed head, tails and ears (for which I don't know the English word - it's a grayish slab, often eaten on rye bread here in North-Western Europe; that is, when it's eaten at all, I don't know anyone under the age of 50 who eats it).
Anyway, my point is - it's very much possible to know exactly where meat comes from with small farmers/butchers, even for urban dwellers, to the point that I looked the animal that I ate a part of last night in its eyes several times.
- Nursie 5y ago> for which I don't know the English word - it's a grayish slab, often eaten on rye bread here in North-Western Europe In British English, that would be "Head Cheese" or "Brawn", or at least head cheese is likely to be a similar product, made from the animal's head, that's the only thing I can think of. I've never eaten it and it's regarded as kinda gross. Now blood sausage, that can be tasty :)
- nicolas_t 5y agoFromage de tête in French, if you can get over the idea of it, it's well worth trying it. When it's well made with good quality ethically sourced meat (we used to do the same and buy a pig with neighbours and then process it), it's super tasty.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoOh, TIL! In Latin America we call that "queso de puerco" (literally "pork cheese"). Americans call it "head cheese". I've always avoided it because it didn't look like cheese, but like fatty ham.
- roel_v 5y agoYes that's it, after some Googling it turns out that the word I had in mind is a regional word and the 'official' word is the literal translation into Dutch of 'head cheese'.
- redis_mlc 5y agoThere's a lot of virtue signalling on HN, but this takes the cake. Are we all supposed to walk around town with a pig carcass over our shoulder to be as woke as you?