I know this sounds gross, but my grandmother used to cook kidney saute, fried liver, and lamb's tongue. I don't think these organ meats are even sold these days.
Did you ever eat organ meat or any other weird meat?
I can get most organ meats at the grocery store. If I need anything special, I can't get it from my butcher. I'm not a huge fan of organ meat myself but my partner loves kidneys and liver. When I was making my dog food, she usually got hearts and livers. She loved it.
shareIsn't it really high in cholesterol? Sort of like foie gras?
shareI didn't think they were high in cholesterol, but when feeding the dog it was a little less than 5% of the food I made. They are high in protein and vitamins. My partner can feed himself. He loves his steak and kidney pies and liver and onions.
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In Britain liver and onions & steak and kidney pie are quite common. I'm from the north of England originally where 40 years ago tripe was a delicacy... that's cows stomach lining .... along with black pudding (pigs blood with oats), both of which I loved until I found out what they were and a major reason I've been vegetarian for the past 25 years 🙄
Also my granddad loved boiled pigs trotters 🤢
What's weird about chicken livers? You can get it in the supermarket. People eat it all the time. Is this a European thing or something? They also have chicken hearts and beef heart, which I also buy sometimes. Organ meat is also popular in pâté and cold cuts.
shareWhat's weird about chicken livers?
I've never had beef liver like that, only sliced on bread.
shareIn parts of Canada it's called the poor man's steak. This goes back to the Depression - if you couldn't afford steak, you would buy liver. Liver seems out of fashion now. I see the section in the meat department but it seems to be getting smaller.
shareIt always seemed kinda fancy to me. We didn't have it often and always with sour cream or with a little sherry or madeira.
shareOrgans are the most nutrient dense part of an animal. In the wild, a lion for example, will go straight for the organs. Same with cavemen. Organs, fat and marrow were all the go-to pieces. The paleo diet is completely wrong, as it emphasies on lean meat, which would have killed a caveman.
I see liver, kidneys, tripe and things like that at the grocery store, but thats it. Personally, I'm not crazy about organs and I am prone to gout, so I tend to avoid it.
True about organs being the most nutrient-rich parts of an animal. But don't wish you could eat it, despite not being crazy about them and being prone to gout.
The liver and kidneys are filters, and unless you can get high quality, non-commercial liver and kidneys, the drugs and other pollutants in them cancels out the nutritional benefits.
seal meat
shareAny good?
sharevery gamey and succulent. it is an acquired taste.
shareI'd give it try
I liked Snake, Ostrich and Buffalo so why not?
As to offal I would give it a go (liver I have had, I'm not a huge fan but it is supposedly Iron rich and healthy)
What kind of snake have you tasted?
I heard in trying to deal with their out of control Burmese Python problem in Florida, some culinary organizations have been promoting recipes using its meat.
I also heard its got a real gamey taste. I'd much rather try seal than Burmese Python.
I've had rattlesnake meat (fried and with a sauce) at a Brazilian place
I kid you not when I say it tasted like chicken with a fishy flavor
Not bad actually
I'm actually not opposed to trying it. I'd much rather eat meat than organs.
I love those Brazilian restaurants too. Talk about a meat lovers paradise, that's Brazilian food.
I saw a show once where cave explorers would feed on large spiders, arachnids like tarantulas. Mostly by roasting giant spider legs on fires, they said it didn't taste all that different than eating crab legs.
I like gamey. If I enjoy venison, would I like seal?
tastes like duck/goose. here is a guy frying seal meat. from what I remember you have to add a lot of spices and onions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3C5G7W3el8
My wife is a Taiwanese so I've eaten most of those meat and offals you Westerners called weird.
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