***He loved pickled pigs feet and use to buy them when I was a kid. No thanks...:O) ****
I was in a grocery store not long ago. They had pickled pig feet AND pickled pig lips.
Also some Pork brains in Milk Gravy.
I guess if you are hungry enough...
People got desperate during the depression. I remember reading about a man found up Largo Canyon in San Juan County, NM. He was found laying over a partially butchered calf, a bullet hole through his head.
Like I mentioned, wild meat was a Godsend. Antelope, deer, elk. The game wardens had one heck of a time trying to keep poachers from killing all game out of an area.
But then there was the rabbit plague, millions of rabbits and few coyotes to eat them! Kiss your gardens goodby!
well, good night!
So many things that used to be in NYC supermarkets are no longer there, and pigs’ feet and pigs’ knuckles is one of them. Chicken livers, chicken fat, lard, calves’ liver, oxtails . . .
I don’t remember taking the skin off the chicken feet but maybe my grandmother did that before giving them to us.
She once took me to the chicken market. When the butcher came into the area where the cages were, all the chickens would go crazy until he picked one and took it away. Then they would calm down. They all knew what was happening. Country folks would not be amazed but I was.