Recipes for the recession bring offal back into fashion in France

The Times ^ | 11/20/2008 | Adam Sage in Rungis

[therut]

Beef tongue is very, very good. Most tender beef I have had. Easy to fix. Takes about 3 hours though.

[VeniVidiVici]

By 6am the trotters had almost all been snapped up and only two trays of brains and a handful of livers remained on the shelf.

Offal! After reading the first sentence I thought we were going to read about a Kennedy clan all-nighter.

[advance_copy]

That is just offal.

I crack myself up

[ari-freedom]

mmm yummy raw beating frog hearts. I am so bad. Sorry.

[tubebender]

Mmmmm...food

[truemiester]

“It’s not that people have become a lot poorer in this country, but they think they’re poorer because of all the talk of the crisis,”

I think that says it all. Scare the people and they will vote for you.

[ari-freedom]

Obama...Obama....Obama...

[padre35]

Oxtails, hearts, liver, tongue, all palatable..

Sweet Breads and Brains..I’ll pass Mad Cow and all that...

[ari-freedom]

sweetbreads are yummy!

[padre35]

Yummy?

Yeah maybe, I’ll take a nice cast iron skillet full of papas and sobeyos and jalapenos over the hippocampus gland..

[ari-freedom]

I dunno what that is but it sure don’t sound like MEAT

[padre35]

Potatoes and Onions with hot peppers beats the heck out of offal offerings, at best a slow simmered liver that has the silver skin removed over qtr chopped onions is the tastiest morsels they have to offer.

Bleech...I’d rather shoot my deer and rabbits and catch my trout then eat the “sweet meat”...shudder...

[ari-freedom]

ok I guess no succulent chicken gizzards for you either

[Age of Reason]

Tripe, tongues, sweetbreads, kidneys, brains, lungs and hearts—all delicious.

But I stopped eating beef in any form years ago, thanks to mad cow disease.

In fact, as much as I like meat, I rarely eat any form of it nowadays because I don’t trust any of it.

[PGR88]

I don’t think I offal was ever out of fashion in France.

I once had some kind of fried tripe that I believe still had the sh#t in it. Apparantly was quite a common dish in that region. Not so nice.

[padre35]

I’ll pass on the gizards...

[bruinbirdman]

"I think that says it all. Scare the people and they will vote for you."

Hussein has used the old Leninist trick. "When we win, the spoils are ours."

He told everyone who pays no income tax, "I will return all your Social Security Tax. Then I will provide everyone with free health care. If we have a majority of the vote, we can do anything we want with the whole U.S. Treasury."

The text messaging between high school students was a well kept secret. Plenty of public school educated frybrains believed him.

yitbos

[ari-freedom]

so picky...

[piasa]

Chicken livers sauted in olive oil , garlic, red onions and sage are pretty tasty, and very cheap. Serve ‘em with a wilted spinach salad made with toasted pecans and drizzled with balsamic vinegar, and some hot cinnamon-apple slices on the side and you’ll be a happy camper.