Pigs feet, head cheese, gizzards….will Talia and Liz survive the southern food reckoning?
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I’ll eat anything they cook.
Sight unseen.
Try Me.
Boied peanuts?
Never heard of Kool-aide pickles or that bunt ring thing but the rest of it tastes ok. The gizzards are great.
I’m not real fussy but don’t expect me to partake of liver nor scrapple.
When you are hungry enough, you’ll eat damn near anything! Even HAM & MUTHAS!
When I was a kid, it was a thing to call up small grocery stores in town and ask them if they had pig’s feet.
When the store clerk inevitably answered “yes” the kid would respond with “well wear shoes and nobody’ll notice”.
Never heard of Kool-Aid Pickles. I have eaten jelly salad before. Usually served in public school lunches. A big no on Pickled Pigs Feet! @Groucho Marxist, boiled peanuts were a regular feature on the Gulf Coast. Raw Oysters by the burlap sack full too! I’m sure neither of these gals would sample pork chitlins. And they weren’t eating the chicken gizzards correctly. It’s a lot of gristle with a chewy nub of dark stringy meat.
I may be southern but never heard of kool-aid pickles and gelatin salad is supposed to be flavored gelatin with grapes, pears, peaches, shredded carrots, sometimes mini marshmallows, shredded coconut and/or bananas.
I’ve always been very willing to turn in my southern card when it comes to eating gizzards and pigs feet. I’ll eat chicken livers, but never understood eating gizzards, my Dad loved them though.
They should have given them some pickled eggs, poke salad, wilted lettuce and wild onions.
In 1974, I was stationed in England. I walked into a mom & pop store one day and on top of the counter was a huge jar of pickled eels. I didn’t want to be rude but I asked about them. They tried to get me to try one but I wouldn’t. The guy took one out and ate it in front of me. I almost got sick watching him eat it.
Gizzards done, livers pink, how it’s cooked.
I would so like to maroon the two cows on a dessert free desert island.
Head cheese, in France it’s called pate’, you pay a lot for it.
What about the grits?
You want nasty, try lutefisk, a Yankee treat.
Every time I see this in the grocery store I ask “why?” Canned whole potatoes.
That kool aid pickles and gelatin salad are new to me.
But I would probably eat those and none of the other stuff.
@MJA — Gizzards are a real treat. Geoff C. and I ate them all the time whenever we could find a good tavern with pool tables. 🙂
MJA, you might like gizzards, I know many people who do. KFC was serving them again and the first day our local KFC was lined out the door for them. I can’t stand them. I’ve never tried head cheese or pigs feet, although my Grandparents ate them all the time along with pickled eggs, pickled okra, and pickled beets. I just could never make myself try the eggs or pigs feet, I don’t like pickled okra, but love pickled beets.
If you prefer projectile vomiting, it should be lime Jello and have cottage cheese, carrots and celery in it.
@AbigailAdams
I understand your plight but…..canned potatoes are often better than the ‘store bought’ spuds that are soft and mushy because they are LAST years taters.
To get fresh potatoes here you either buy straight from the farmer or you grow your own.
From the “Some things my mother used to cook” department:
(with approval ratings on a 10 scale)
Sauteed lamb kidneys and mushrooms over rice. (9)
Fried chicken giblets: hearts, gizzards, livers. (9)
Chicken/turkey gravies with chopped giblets in it. (10)
Roast beef heart. (8)
Roast beef tongue. (7)
Fried beef liver. (9) (has to be really fresh & grass-fed)
Oxtail soup with barley and vegetables. (10)
Clam stomach chowder (‘Bongo Bongo soup’) (10)
People will read this on Saturday morning and be like, “Am I hungry now? (-:
These are the people Hillary was talking about in 2016.
Our youngest gestated on “gelatina” – congealed pickled pigs feet with veal, doused with wine vinegar. Thank God my mom sent a large container every week for the last 3 months of pregnancy. I couldn’t get enough of them. The day after he was born, he was holding his head up and turning it independently to follow the TV.
I cooked chicken gizzard soup regularly. Long slow simmer. Great thick nutritious broth with obviously boneless meat.
Chicken Liver is my favorite, sautéed in butter and onions, next to beef tongue, which can be sliced as lunch meat or cubed for tacos. It cooks beautifully in the instant pot.
p.s. For the discriminating, I have octopus in my fridge right now. Who wants to come over for lunch.
@Jellybean — maybe it’s because WA and ID are such big spud producers that I’ve never bought a squishy old ‘tater at the store. And we have such variety, too. I can’t imagine what a canned potato would taste like. Do you use them?
I think I’d feel the same way about using krab or canned crab. My daffy aunt ordered a crab salad at a restaurant in NM once. She asked the waitress if the crab was frozen and the young woman said, “No.” After the waitress left the table, my young cousin piped up with, “No, it’s not frozen. It’s canned.” My Seattle aunt thought she was being picky about her crab; it never occurred to her that there was an alternative to “fresh” versus “frozen.” LOL!
Speaking of tubers: I got a big surprise the other day when I pulled out the sweet potato vines in our deck pots. You know, the fast-growing annuals that have the pretty lime green and dark purple foliage? Well, guess what? There was a pretty good sized sweet potato under that lot! Have no idea if it’s edible.
Too bad the southerners miss out on the western treat of bull testicles.
PJ, I would come over for lunch at your house any day. Don’t even need to tell me what’s on the menu.
Jellybean – everyone loves Scrapple! Has to be Rapa or Habersetts though. Fried Scrapple smothered in ketchup washed down with milk.
But here in the Deep South we have an amazing variety of Delicacies Provencal: berled crawfish, gas station fried chicken, gas station fried catfish, canned okra, Ratons Laveur (sold whole with one paw on so you’d know it’s not a cat), shrimp & grits, squirrel stew, smothered teal
(dammit. Now I’m hongry) Honey! Where’s that gift card to Galatoires? We’re gonna stop back by Galatoires on Bourbon Street!
McDonalds Chicken McNads.
Mexicans eat pigs feet too. I like to have pigs feet while watching PBR bull riding on weekend evenings. Usually I have an Arturo Fuente Hemingway with my PBR though
Boiled peanuts are actually surprisingly good but expensive compared to peanuts in the shell. In southern Ohio I saw big packages of chicken feet in the meat department and asked a lady marking prices down if they were for voodoo.
Worst tasting “food” with the nicest-sounding name:
Sweetbreads.
Yuck. 🙁
LOL PJ.
I have not eaten octopus since I was a kid. I remember a lot of chewing and tasting like wine sauce. Haven’t had it since. My mom makes it on occasion. i remember the inside of the pot looking like an inky burgundy. lol
Have you ever caught snails and cooked those? I remember that as a kid, too.
But that was in Europe, so…
Edit: Why did I write ‘caught’? As if we had to put on track shoes and go after them.
“gathered” is the word.
@Jimmy,
Those are all Good Eats.
Had them all.
Funny enough, heart, tongue and oxtail were once cheap, last time I bought any, $8, $12, & $6 #, respectively.
I blame Alton Brown, Georgia boy.
Koolaid pickles, never heard of it, that Jello ring was a pretty poorly produced recipe
Don’t much care for Hot Sausage, or PP feet, the red puts me off.
Like blue, there is no red food, well, beets me.
When I have lots of eggs, pickle the heck out of them, don’t make them red though, turmeric yellow.
Get $10 a gallon jar.
My father used to say that anything edible can be made to taste good.
Perfect description of ethnic foods from foreign cultures that have made their way into the US cuisine. I have tried and liked things I would never have imagined eating when I was younger.
Have to say, though, that I don’t think I could even try Kool Aid pickles.