Overheard at lunch time

[den]

Two men outside a shop, discussing sandwiches they bought elsewhere: "There were only two sandwiches left, and one of those was sliced ox-tongue. No wonder it was left over! No way would I eat anything that came out an an animal's mouth! So I had the egg sandwich."

Comments

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the edible part of the egg didn't actually touch the body cavity it was last in, and it wasn't there for long ;)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

No one thinks about that. Out of a cow's mouth: ew! Out of a chicken's bum: okay.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

> most people in the US these days would be squicked by the thought of eating brains, kidneys, liver, heart, sweetbreads, pigs' feet, or chitlins

Good thing I ain't most people: Bring on the Haggis! <Jabba the Hutt Voice>Ho! Ho! Ho!</JTHV>

Brains aren't all that disgusting to eat, but 3000 mg cholesterol per serving lets them off my menu for health reasons!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Absolutely right about that, you are. Last time I had a bowl of cream of brain soup was in 1976, long before BSE had appeared on the radar as a human problem.

It's a nasty, nasty way to die - makes Alzheimer's look compassionate by comparison.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I like chicken hearts, and happily eat the kidneys (which are tucked into a bone cavity in the thighs). Not fond of liver, but that's a taste issue, not what kind of meat it is. And my squickiness about brains is because I know entirely too much about spongiform diseases and kuru!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

That was funny. I laughed until I stopped...

[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

"I wonder who is was who first walked up to a cow and said, 'I think I'll squeeze this and drink whatever comes out of it!'?" - Calvin

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

[snark] Someone who'd been watching a calf nurse. [/snark]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

"Who was the first man to milk a cow? And what did he think he was doing?" Billy Connolly

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Back in 1789, when the First Fleeters were verging on starvation and living on salted beef and wormy hard-tack, they refused food from the Aboriginies. Records describe the Aboriginies eating filthy molluscs and crustaceans, ie Sydney rock oysters and balmain bugs.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]