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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Do any of you eat liver or kidneys? I've never really liked them especially after gutting lambs and seeing the kidneys all wrapped up in a ball of fat.
Hell no. I remember a bunch of us got together last year for a fry up during an ABs morning World Cup game. Obviously Bacon ( surely the food of the gods ), farm fresh eggs and sausages, black pudding and beans came out in force......but one joker brought along chicken liver which our host fried up almost as an afterthought. Obviously the aforementioned foods got demolished but the livers pretty much remained untouched.
I think that social experiment speaks volumes.
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@MN5 my dad ate all kinds of stuff that I wouldn't eat like cows tongues , liver, kidneys, pancreas and all the other shit that should be buried in a hole and a tree planted on it. It must be a generational thing , mind you its best not to think too hard about what goes into a sausage [hint, lips and arseholes].
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I had Grouse once at some swanky restaurant in London, cost a fortune as their is a finite amount and a small season.. and it must be shot.
It was horrible, tasted like Liver and I almost cracked my teeth on the shot that they hadn't removed.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I had Grouse once at some swanky restaurant in London, cost a fortune as their is a finite amount and a small season.. and it must be shot.
It was horrible, tasted like Liver and I almost cracked my teeth on the shot that they hadn't removed.
Their whisky is pretty ordinary too.
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@canefan one of my best mates was a MAF inspector at AFFCO and he said if you saw what went into the cheap sausages or patties you buy, you wouldnt buy them.
Guess thats the same with most things, ignore what it takes to get to the end product
Things have changed alot since back then though, people are more aware.
I know when I was working at KFC there were all sorts of 'urban legends' about shit that happened, which didnt.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan one of my best mates was a MAF inspector at AFFCO and he said if you saw what went into the cheap sausages or patties you buy, you wouldnt buy them.
Guess thats the same with most things, ignore what it takes to get to the end product
Things have changed alot since back then though, people are more aware.
I know when I was working at KFC there were all sorts of 'urban legends' about shit that happened, which didnt.
So having reached nearly 40 years of age and having NEVER touched coleslaw based on what I've heard goes into the sauce are you saying I've been wrong all these years ?
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@mariner4life said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
fuck i love meat. I would gladly condemn the planet if it meant i could get a primo steak when ever i wanted.
I could not live without steak and bacon. I feel so stupid though. All this time I thought because steak and bacon are both delicious, but in truth it was to get that me, Tarzan feeling.
You learn something new every day.
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Was at a barbeque once and it was pretty dark by the time we got to eat. Put what I thought was a decent sized piece of steak on my plate which when I bit into it turned out to be a huge hunk of liver. I think I understand how that guy felt in "that scene" in the crying game when he got George Gregan home .
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Was at a barbeque once and it was pretty dark by the time we got to eat. Put what I thought was a decent sized piece of steak on my plate which when I bit into it turned out to be a huge hunk of liver. I think I understand how that guy felt in "that scene" in the crying game when he got George Gregan home .
"Its dark & I'm hungry & no one saw it go on my plate so I'm still going to eat this, but I'll never speak of it"?
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We went to Florence last year and at a trattoria there was a couple of young Yank blokes sitting over from us. They ordered from a menu they obviously couldn't understand by pointing and making American noises and in a little while had plates of tripe in front of them. I don't think either of them even put tried it. I don't blame them. Disgusting, like a rancid dish sponge.
Liver's ok occasionally if the cook knows what they are doing, and I can take kidney in small pieces in a steak and kidney pie. Sweetbreads though... why? Anyone tried mountain oysters?
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The various livers are so different it's wrong to group them together.
Calves, lambs and chicken livers are as different in taste and texture as calves, lamb and chicken legs.
In NZ most people associate liver with over-cooked dry strongly flavoured lambs liver but wafer thin slices of calves liver dusted in seasoned flour lightly fried with sliced onions then served with fresh pasta and a sauce made by adding cider to the pan would have most of you asking for more I guarantee it.
Same with sweetbreads. Not all are the same and cooked well they are rich and creamy. Much like lambs brains which can be a thing of beauty on your plate.
Mountain oysters are not usually cooked with care so like any "weird" food its simply a case of turning your conscious brain off while you chew. I found them gamey like venison but dry and overcooked when I had them. I'd rather eat a bowl of insects but they were far from the least appealing meal I've had. That would be KFC - even the smell from out on the road makes me want to puke. I'd take balut over the Colonel any day.
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@MN5 nah bro, you are right not to touch the coleslaw for whatever reason you chose, I never had it after working there for 2 years.
Plenty of foods that you need to switch the brain off, as it is a key part of the process.
My parents made this field mushroom concoction when I was a kid, black as black, and the smell...ugh...even now, the thought of mushrooms invokes that smell, to this day I still cant have mushrooms, my wife tries to chop them up finely, I still taste (and smell in my head) them and pick them out.
I know it is an irrational thing, but it's just how it is.
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@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
The various livers are so different it's wrong to group them together.
Calves, lambs and chicken livers are as different in taste and texture as calves, lamb and chicken legs.
In NZ most people associate liver with over-cooked dry strongly flavoured lambs liver but wafer thin slices of calves liver dusted in seasoned flour lightly fried with sliced onions then served with fresh pasta and a sauce made by adding cider to the pan would have most of you asking for more I guarantee it.
I want you to cook me that calves liver!
I always eat what is put in front of me and am grateful but I struggle with liver and kidney. I am always willing to try though and had a mate who said he did the best lambs fry. Rubber bullets in cream on toast with bacon. Man it was hard to say 'Yum, thanks for that' but I did,
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga Had a mate who had a uni holiday job scraping up all of the stuff on the abattoir floor and putting it into the maccas patty machine
Your mate was talking shite.
