Eating Tongues

[Debacle]

Was thinking today about how different my diet is compared to when I was a young fella and was forced to eat all manner of things probably considered these days to be fairly unpalatable.

Does anyone still eat Ox and Lamb tongues these days.

I wasnt too keen on the Ox tongue but Lamb tongue is quite tasty though the main drawback is that it looks like it has just been ripped straight out of the lambs mouth and chucked on a plate. If you didnt know what it was it would taste quite good.

Where does all that stuff go these days.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

spam?

[dobbo]

Where does all that stuff go these days.

Sausages, SPAM and the the humble Rissole

Did you know that RISSOLE is an anagram for IS R SOLE for a reason

[justinc]

Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, wonderful spam, loverly spam....


I'm a Python fan......:eek:Can't you tell???

JC

[sclarke]

Yummy

[Sprint]

i'll buy and boil an ox tongue every now and then...... usually disappears within 24 hours as i cant resist just carving a slab off it when its in the fridge

[MacMan]

The japanese do tasty things with ox tongue.

[abaddonxi]

Ooh, haven't had tongue in years, time to get down to the
butcher and get out the pickling pot.

:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p

Cheers
Simon

[numpty]

Had tongue as a child. Also pigs cheek (brawn), kidneys (devilled and steak and kidney pie), liver, lambs brains (crumbed and fried), ox heart (baked).

All manner of tasty goodies. Am still around today, so they didn't do me any harm, and most of it tasted good too.Can't get the missus to cook any of it though, and it's a waste of time to cook any of it just for myself.

[Tango51]

I like it too, I slice it very thin and grill it and eat it with a garlic chilli dipping sauce. Tasty.

[Ken]

I remember toungue sandwiches as a young fella in the school lunch box
Lambs fry with bacon on Saturday for breakky
And dad slicing lambs brains to crumb and fry with eggs on toast
Didnt hurt me one bit either ;)

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Had tongue as a child. Also pigs cheek (brawn), kidneys (devilled and steak and kidney pie), liver, lambs brains (crumbed and fried), ox heart (baked).

All manner of tasty goodies. Am still around today, so they didn't do me any harm, and most of it tasted good too.Can't get the missus to cook any of it though, and it's a waste of time to cook any of it just for myself.

I knew there was a reason I liked your missus---:p

[Tango51]

A German colleague had me in stitches once when he remarked in his heavy accent "German people only recognize a meal is hearty when they can identify the organs of three separate animals on the plate".

Most offal I avoid, pigs cheeks I use for a Korean dish I like.

[JDNSW]

I regularly get and cook ox tongues for cold meat in summer. One of the nicest meats you can get if cooked properly.

Haven't had lamb's tongues for years, but I don't mind them.
John

[WhiteD3]

I remember toungue sandwiches as a young fella in the school lunch box
Lambs fry with bacon on Saturday for breakky
And dad slicing lambs brains to crumb and fry with eggs on toast
Didnt hurt me one bit either ;)


Was 40 years ago and still makes me shudder. That and the brussel sprouts:eek:

[Sprint]

nothing wrong with sprouts!

[JDNSW]

Nothing wrong with Lamb's Fry, or Brussel sprouts, or Lamb brains for that matter.

John

[Discopug]

Used to have crumbed brains and peanuts on a sandwich for lunch in primary school. Mum used to press ox tongue for cold meat ( none of this ham stuff!! ),and we often used to have sweet breads for dinner in a casserole.
Not to mention the tripe.
Some of the people I work for insist on providing lunch. One place gave me lambs tongue soup, like the tongues had just been ripped out of their mouths, I did have a hard time trying to keep it down.
Its all in the mind.
I'm sure sheeps eyes are very tasty, bit like oysters I would expect. make s a change from being like chicken.

[numpty]

nothing wrong with sprouts!

You are kidding right?:o Foul. People reckon they are just a small cabbage. Well how come cabbage tastes good and sprouts are.............well, sprouts.:p

Like chokos. the only reason chokos were invented was to cover up the outside thunderbox.;) Come to think of it........maybe that's why they taste like they do.:eek:

[tombraider]

Everyone here is showing their age!!!

All the meat mentioned is a product of living through war/depression etc, when only the well to do ate steak and the blue collar ate what was left / affordable...

I mean, dammit people!!!! The economy is good... Eat the REAL stuff.... :p

[Disco_owner]

Was thinking today about how different my diet is compared to when I was a young fella and was forced to eat all manner of things probably considered these days to be fairly unpalatable.

Does anyone still eat Ox and Lamb tongues these days.

I wasnt too keen on the Ox tongue but Lamb tongue is quite tasty though the main drawback is that it looks like it has just been ripped straight out of the lambs mouth and chucked on a plate. If you didnt know what it was it would taste quite good.

Where does all that stuff go these days.


John we eat both OX tongue and lamb Tongue , cooked with a lot of garlic and onions in a preassure cooker , misus does it really nice.

[Disco300Tdi]

MMMmmmm

Lambs Fry
Ox Tongue
Sheep Brains
Kidneys
Giblets
Pigs Head
Sheeps eyes
Sausages made from pig, sheep and cattle offal

and a favourite

Tripe

But I can't eat a black pudding...:confused:

[Bushie]

John we eat both OX tongue and lamb Tongue , cooked with a lot of garlic and onions in a preassure cooker , misus does it really nice.

Probably needs to cook some blue metal as well, :):) I can remember as a kid eating bread and dripping (with plenty of salt) don't think I could go there now though.

Martyn

[HangOver]

I can remember as a kid eating bread and dripping

Ahhh now you are talking bread n dripping hmmmmmmmm
Never had that for years, some other stuff I remember:

Liver
kidney
Cows Tounge
Sheeps Heart
white pudding
black pudding
Haggis <- very tasty but hard to come by a proper one
Faggots <- No ! I mean the small Welsh meatball type things
If you have never eaten them you are missing out.

I would have to draw the line at brains !

Saying that I'm quite happy to swap all that for a nice T-bone or scotch fillet

[amtravic1]

When we were young my mother regularly cooked tripe, lambs fry and black pudding. Can you still buy that stuff now. Have not heard of it for many years.
I did not mind the lambs fry and black pudding, not so keen on tripe.

Ian

[djam1]

To Quote JDNSW

"Nothing wrong with Lamb's Fry, or Brussel sprouts, or Lamb brains for that matter."

John I grew up on a sheep stud and with what I learnt about sheep you would have to kill a lot of them to take enough brains for a meal.
The only animal that becomes exponentially more stupid 100 are more stupid than 20 and so on
.

[WildOne]

MMMmmmm

Lambs Fry
Ox Tongue
Sheep Brains
Kidneys
Giblets
Pigs Head
Sheeps eyes
Sausages made from pig, sheep and cattle offal

and a favourite

Tripe

But I can't eat a black pudding...:confused:

Black Pudding sliced and under the grill just enough to crispy the outsides...mmmm:D
Not too keen on white pudding though...

[JDNSW]

To Quote JDNSW

"Nothing wrong with Lamb's Fry, or Brussel sprouts, or Lamb brains for that matter."

John I grew up on a sheep stud and with what I learnt about sheep you would have to kill a lot of them to take enough brains for a meal.
The only animal that becomes exponentially more stupid 100 are more stupid than 20 and so on
.

I know about sheep and brain sizes, even though I destocked about five years ago, and probably won't get any more - see if I can sell some agistment as flocks build up, although I have to improve my fences.

But you're right - you need several lamb brains even to make an entree.

John

[Redback]

The japanese do tasty things with ox tongue.

Whale too from what i hear;)

[JDNSW]

A friend (sheep shearer) once said that sheep spend 364 days of the year thinking up how to die and then they do it on the 365th day :D

To be fair, the main attribute that gets sheep a bad press is their strong herd instinct (far less individual initiative than, for example, goats), but remember as well that sheep as they are today are the result of thousands of years of selective breeding for, among other things, docility (i.e. stupidity).

John

[Disco_owner]

Probably needs to cook some blue metal as well, :):) I can remember as a kid eating bread and dripping (with plenty of salt) don't think I could go there now though.

Martyn


yeah , neither can i martyn , I could when i was a bit younger , my cholestral is too high so I had to stop taking salt. that's why misus cooks the OX /lamb tongue without Salt. :(

[olbod]

I really enjoy all of the things mentioned.
I still like to have bread and dripping and meat cooked in dripping tastes
really yummy.
Bulls balls roasted on the branding iron fire also go down okay for a quick snack during a long days work.
Ya all forgot to mention the Ox tail !
Its all good tucker and has nothing to do with poverty, everything to do with variety.
Couldn't handle the bread pudding tho but Iv'e never been a sweet eater anyway.
Me Grandpa used to make his own black pudding, cripes it was good.
As kids we used to get stuck into it, along with the red wine and cheese
that the old Italian farmer across the valley, used to make. We'd sneak
down to his cellar with him.
Got many a belting for pinching the pudding and coming back slightly peesed. The old Italians wife used to beat him up with a tomato stake
and ban us from visiting for a few days.
Did'nt work tho because we'd meet at the old Chinamans and eat pudding
and dim sims using home made gum tree chop sticks and drink the Italian wine out of little Chinese cups.
Life was good.

[Scallops]

Does anyone still eat Ox and Lamb tongues these days.

I don't know - I would never eat something that could taste me back! :D

[Debacle]

You are kidding right?:o Foul. People reckon they are just a small cabbage. Well how come cabbage tastes good and sprouts are.............well, sprouts.:p

Like chokos. the only reason chokos were invented was to cover up the outside thunderbox.;) Come to think of it........maybe that's why they taste like they do.:eek:

You have probably only had Chokos boiled within an inch of their lives.

Try slicing then into wedges and frying in garlic butter. Delicious.

[Sprint]

Everyone here is showing their age!!!

All the meat mentioned is a product of living through war/depression etc, when only the well to do ate steak and the blue collar ate what was left / affordable...

I mean, dammit people!!!! The economy is good... Eat the REAL stuff.... :p

the economy isnt allways that good mate, some people still cant afford real meat every night of the week

btw, im 26

[Slunnie]

Hmmm, the only tongue I liked was girlfriend tongue.

Lambs fry and Brussel sprouts is the worst of Boarding school food. I can't believe you lot eat it because you want to. :o

[LRHybrid100]

MMMmmmm

black pudding..

Now your talking REAL food!!!

[JamesH]

Maybe Ron can make a ruling but i believe in the context of food, tongue is the plural as well as singular, like fish.

I am not a big offal man myself but I have enjoyed tongue before, i tried it mainly becasue i was fascinated by the tongue press. I do often enjoy haggis and neeps, though. It's a great entre.

[Bigbjorn]

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Lambs fry and Brussel sprouts is the worst of Boarding school food. I can't believe you lot eat it because you want to. :o

My worst memories of boarding school food is of boiled sausages and cabbage. I never ate any butcher type sausages or any of the cabbage/brassica family for years afterwards.

I used to quite like corned pressed bullock tongue as a cold meat or on sandwiches. Have not had any for a long, long, time. We never had any other offal at my parents or my grandparents homes. Offal went to the working dogs. My grandfather in Winton was a noted drover. Before someone asks the question, there were no pet dogs.

One post above mentions poverty or hard times foods. Rabbit is in this category. Many older people have bad memories of surviving on rabbit. I also recall when I was a schoolboy, a lady in Winton saying to another, I can't remember the circumstances but the memory is clear, that "we don't have to eat offal, we're not poor people."

[ATH]

The cook, my dearly beloved that is, worked in the food trade for years and reckons most offal goes overseas to Asia where they really appreciate it. Even the skin off a lot of pork cuts like chops goes there instead of being left on for us to pig (!!!) out on.
I love it all and can remember the old man doing pigs heads for a roast and some for brawn. Lovely stuff.
Happy scoffing.
Alan.

[numpty]

You have probably only had Chokos boiled within an inch of their lives.

Try slicing then into wedges and frying in garlic butter. Delicious.

You're right John.:p Boiled.....not quite to slush. I have had them more recently though, done with a cheese sauce, which makes them quite tasty. More to do with the cheese really. They're also great as a filler in apple pies and with pear halves in syrup. They manage to take on the flavour of what ever they're cooked with.

Surprised my Mum once when she asked if I'd noticed anything different about the apple pie we'd just eaten. "Why", said I, "did you use chokos in it". Was a guess, but she was convinced I'd tasted the choko:D