Fat or not ?

[Robin]

The Spanish eat tripe with absolute relish - I keep trying it, just in case I suddenly like it, but...nope...I still don't like it! They chop it up tiny and cook it with olive oil and veg, chick peas, whatever...but that rank 'flavour' is impossible to conceal...never tried it U.K.-stylee.😱

Oh yes, I remember seeing it piled up in the market in Barcelona, along with pigs ears and several completely unidentifiable bits of innards. Tripe was the one thing my mother never made us eat, as kids, when she cooked if for my father who loved it.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

The Lithuanian supermarket near me sell packs of salted pigs guts 😱

 

[Mark Parrott]

The Lithuanian supermarket near me sell packs of salted pigs guts 😱

Ooh, your're making me hungry, Lucy.

 

[Vince_UK]

of God - my Dad used to make me suck on balls of butter rolled in sugar to ease a sore throat as a young child

to this day I cannot stomach any kind if butter or fat of any description

eugh!!!

Mine to

 

[Vince_UK]

The fat that comes round the edge of a piece of meat is fairly solid, no way could,you spread it. Yet if you put that piece of fat into the oven and cook it slowly, it renders down into the stuff that we know as dripping, leaving behind an inedible, shrivelled bit of indigestible stuff that was originally the piece of fat. ( I do this with the goose fat at Christmas, to get enough goose grease to cook spuds in through the year)
Therefore I can only conclude that heating the fat renders down the good bits, leaving behind the bits that make it undigestible in the first instance.

Robin, that's how I usually pan fry steaks. Cut the fat off, render it down in the pan then cook the steak. I also have sometimes used the same fat to fry eggs etc.
Fat adds flavour to meat.

 

[Vince_UK]

I used to know a lad who worked a Saturday job in a butcher's - he became addicted to raw tripe and got the sack for eating the stock! 😱 My Dad once cooked some for me and my sister as a 'surprise' - possibly the most revolting thing I have ever attempted to eat 😱

Tripe and Vinegar in the NE. was a staple at one time. Served Sunday lunchtimes in most pubs as a freebie on the bar. Tried it once years ago with a couple of pints and pickled onions. Haven't tried tripe since but cheese and pickles are definitely on my list.

 

[Vince_UK]

The Lithuanian supermarket near me sell packs of salted pigs guts 😱

You think that's bad Lucy. You should see what they eat here in China. Everything and I mean Everything.

 

[mikeyB]

You’d eat all this stuff if you were starving, there’s nothing wrong nutritionally with any of it. I quite like brawn. I didn’t see it in Poland or Russia. We only ate in the better restaurants.😎

 

[mikeyB]

I should add, the woman who owned the tripe shop in the town when I was a kid lived to the age of 106. In the NW there was a UCP restaurant in every large town. (UCP is United Cattle Products). You can guess which cattle product was on the menu!

 

[Vince_UK]

A favourite here is Cows Head. They bring a full cooked head on a server complete with respendent horns, place it in the middle of the table which they then all devour picking at it with chopsticks until it is literally picked bare. Never tried it myself and somehow I don't think I will.

 

[Mark Parrott]

I should add, the woman who owned the tripe shop in the town when I was a kid lived to the age of 106. In the NW there was a UCP restaurant in every large town. (UCP is United Cattle Products). You can guess which cattle product was on the menu!

I was going to mention about old age. People are living longer (apparently) & look what these people lived on. My nan lived to 98 & lived on tripe & lard. She only died when she was mi-diagnosed with high blood pressure when she actually had low blood pressure & was given the wrong meds. This is what I heard, anyway. How anyone get's that diagnosis wrong, I don't know.🙄

 

[chaoticcar]

I remember being taken to a UCP Restaurant in Blackpool many more moons ago than I care to remember but I am certain that I didn't have tripe !
CAROL