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When I was a kid, we had beef liver at least once a week!..............
1 posted on 05/18/2026 8:42:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Liver and onions with mushroom gravy!..................


2 posted on 05/18/2026 8:43:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Liver and onions with mushroom gravy!..................


3 posted on 05/18/2026 8:43:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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Many people dislike the taste of liver. I like it.


4 posted on 05/18/2026 8:44:00 AM PDT by pas
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I just don’t like the taste of beef liver. It tastes like soap to me.


6 posted on 05/18/2026 8:44:45 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: Red Badger

No organs, thank you.


11 posted on 05/18/2026 8:46:57 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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I have been taking freeze dried beef organs in capsule form for quite awhile. Source is grass fed Australian cattle.


12 posted on 05/18/2026 8:47:55 AM PDT by Cautious Optimism
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Very interesting historical info there, Red. I did not know how offal was a staple before WW II and how prime meat was sent to the troops leaving offal for the people at home. Then the troops developed a taste for muscle meat and the post WW II suburban BBQ steak took off.

I have a B12 deficiency, but think I'll stick with this.


14 posted on 05/18/2026 8:48:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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Most people I know don’t like these meats. Liver and kidneys taste like what they do.


19 posted on 05/18/2026 8:50:30 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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Organ meats taste awful! Very strong taste. I have nightmares about liver and onions.


25 posted on 05/18/2026 8:52:38 AM PDT by Jemian (It is great to be an Auburn Tiger! War Eagle!)
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To: Red Badger

“Organ meats sit on the butcher’s shelf at a fraction of the price of premium steaks...”

Personally speaking.....I’m more than happy to pay the difference. 😏

Having said that, most people have no idea what they would be willing to eat if they were hungry enough.

Extreme cases: the Donner party and the soccer players that plane crashed in the Andes come to mind.


27 posted on 05/18/2026 8:55:15 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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My mother tried to give us liver every six months just to punish us. I smothered that thing with ketchup so much and it was still disgusting.

I am shocked by the acceptance of government’s increasing influence on our diets.
I would’ve laughed at such a thing 10 years ago that conservative would accept this, but unfortunately, they’ve fallen into the trap liberals have for decades. Conservatives are falling into the “it’s for the greater good“ nonsense so shocking.


28 posted on 05/18/2026 9:00:00 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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Liver can be good if properly cooked.


29 posted on 05/18/2026 9:00:25 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Thank you, Lord. Every day. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝.)
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i have to look for it in the frozen food section

rarely included in the fresh meat section

one time i found calf’s liver pink and cut thick like a steak

at whole foods of all places

went back many times looking for it again

the last time the meat guy made a face and shook his head

i am sure a karen complained


32 posted on 05/18/2026 9:04:21 AM PDT by joshua c (collectivism has many names but the result is the same; the state is primary, the citizen is a slave)
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My mother used to try to make me eat liver. To her, it was delicious; to me, it smelled good, but tasted like metal, the same taste I would get when the dentist was putting a metal filling in a tooth, and some of the scrapings would touch my tongue. There is absolutely nothing I can do to prevent that taste. Of course, since it didn’t have that effect on my mother, she dismissed it.


33 posted on 05/18/2026 9:04:26 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Chicken livers are great when wrapped around a treble-hook and thrown in the river/lake/pond ...


34 posted on 05/18/2026 9:05:35 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Until a year ago I’d never had beef liver. I enjoy fried chicken liver.

I was at a diner with a friend and he ordered it.

A few months later I tried it at a diner. While not a favorite I’ve gotten it several times since then.


38 posted on 05/18/2026 9:15:53 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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When we lived in northern CA we raised a flock of goats.

From their milk made feta cheese

And put the spare goats into the freezer

Ate the heart liver and the washed out all the stomach tubes which were rolled on a spit and roasted.

Mrs Spokeshave was from the Greek island of Ikaria...a Blue Zone where people forget to die (because village people are Too stupid it die)

I had the skins tanned and sold as seat covers $100 each.

More info...photos..recipes etc from:

IKARIA Lessons on Food, Life and Longevity from the Greek island of Ikaria where people forget to die

By Diane Kochilias ISBN 978-1-62336-295-9

Widower Spokeshave who has terminal cancer and will travel to Ikaria to rest in peace next to his spouse of 62 years.

44 posted on 05/18/2026 9:23:20 AM PDT by spokeshave ( Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads, Curmudgeons & old Geezers)
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We do enjoy liver, particularly calf liver.

When I can get my hands on some Vidalia Onions, it is definitely on the menu.

45 posted on 05/18/2026 9:23:53 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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Beef liver, often called nature's multivitamin, provides extraordinary levels of vitamin B12, vitamin A, iron, copper, and folate in a single serving. A three-ounce portion contains dramatically more B12 than a comparable cut of sirloin.

And it tastes horrible.

Chicken liver I can take, beef liver is nasty.

It is like cantaloupe or bell peppers.

They may be full of vitamins. But I ain't eating them.

You want to? Good for you.

Enjoy.

Don't even try to guilt me into doing the same.

55 posted on 05/18/2026 9:37:40 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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I spent weekends with my grandparents and the menu was more middle America.

But my first generation German-American grandmother routinely served heart, tongue, brains, and head cheese when I was not staying over.

Pigs knuckles also but I not sure that was really what they were.


56 posted on 05/18/2026 9:37:43 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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