What are those used hankies you call chitlins?

Licorice... and fruitcake!

My Nana, as Nanas seem to do, always made fruitcake around Christmas...rest her, she was perfect but for that one glaring defect!

...and I am adding liver to my list as of reading this thread...and after seeing the photos  I shall steer clear of whatever chitterlings are, ewww!

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Quote from: Cindy JamesWhat are those used hankies you call chitlins?

Yeah that...thoughI'm not sure I want to know. Snail maybe?

Quote from: V M on April 30, 2012, 02:40:44 AM
Ughgh, stop showing that pic 

Okay.

The locals here use this to make menudo:

Quote from: Cindy James on April 30, 2012, 02:45:58 AM
What are those used hankies you call chitlins?

Pork intestines

Quote from: MiaOhMya! on April 30, 2012, 02:47:24 AM
Licorice... and fruitcake!

My Nana, as Nanas seem to do, always made fruitcake around Christmas...rest her, she was perfect but for that one glaring defect!

...and I am adding liver to my list as of reading this thread...and after seeing the photos  I shall steer clear of whatever chitterlings are, ewww!

I like fruitcake.  It reminds me of Christmas as a child.

Pork intestines....yes that sounds...well if there were a vomity emoticon....

Quote from: MiaOhMya! on April 30, 2012, 02:54:28 AM
Pork intestines....yes that sounds...well if there were a vomity emoticon....

You ought to smell them cooking

I did make a sea food stock by boiling up a few kilos of prawn heads.That was an interesting smell. The stock was good though.

Quote from: Cindy James on April 30, 2012, 02:45:58 AM
What are those used hankies you call chitlins?

You know, bits and pieces.

Quote from: Jamie D on April 30, 2012, 02:55:46 AM
You ought to smell them cooking

Way worse than cabbage. Worse than boiling peanuts. Takes forever and smells like death.

Quote from: Felix on April 30, 2012, 03:03:56 AM
You know, bits and pieces.
Way worse than cabbage. Worse than boiling peanuts. Takes forever and smells like death.

Got that right

Right so they look foul, smell of death itself, and then what...they taste smooth like a nice candy or tart? If not I may have encountered the first food I will never even try...and I've eaten mealworms ans crickets before.

They really should make that chitlins stuff aginst the Geneva convention! Maybe jamie and felix will outlive us all, having adapted to such poisons as fruitcake, pig innards...and possibly even a secret love for licorice.

Quote from: Cindy James on April 30, 2012, 03:03:02 AM
I did make a sea food stock by boiling up a few kilos of prawn heads.That was an interesting smell. The stock was good though.

Down in Louisiana it is customary to "suck the head" of the boiled Cajun crawfish.



"Com'on and pass a good time!"

Okay, back from vomiting, did I miss anything?

Prawn heads are considered a delicacy by some of my Asian friends. I found it surreal that I was eating the peeled tail and my friend was chomping into the head. she didn't care for the tail meat. Anyone had that happen?

Quote from: MiaOhMya! on April 30, 2012, 03:10:48 AM
Right so they look foul, smell of death itself, and then what...they taste smooth like a nice candy or tart? If not I may have encountered the first food I will never even try...and I've eaten mealworms ans crickets before.

They really should make that chitlins stuff against the Geneva convention! Maybe jamie and felix will outlive us all, having adapted to such poisons as fruitcake, pig innards...and possibly even a secret love for licorice.

They are often associated in the US with "soul food."  Many of the recipes you can find have their roots in the African slave experience or among poor southern whites.  I was introduced to them by Tennessee relatives one 4th of July.

Quote from: V M on April 30, 2012, 03:12:31 AM
Okay, back from vomiting, did I miss anything?

Of all the prawns I've eaten...and I've eaten loads even used to catch em from a pond on my cousins farm...I've not eaten the head. Maybe I should try it some time...reluctantly. I just hate looking in their eyes!

And thank u jamie that's just what I was hoping to see as I eat my tomatoe bisque! :vomity icon!:

Whitchery grub pizza

Quote from: MiaOhMya! on April 30, 2012, 03:26:29 AM
Of all the prawns I've eaten...and I've eaten loads even used to catch em from a pond on my cousins farm...I've not eaten the head. Maybe I should try it some time...reluctantly. I just hate looking in their eyes!

And thank u jamie that's just what I was hoping to see as I eat my tomato bisque! :vomity icon!:

Tomato bisque, you say?

Or maybe, you're enjoying a nice bowl of mealworm soup!

That's bloody gross cindy!  Gross tucker! I will be having some terrible dreams tonight.

Truth be told if someone presented me with a dish like that I might try one...I do try to experiment...but I just can't say for sure if I'd really be able to do those grubbies things. Why can't they be smaller?

Cindy have you uh, tried such things?

Edit: jamie its official...you are a sadist! Are you perhaps part german? My lovely bisque...agh...I'm still eating it truly I am...