My local supermarket stocks evil looking "food"

Hell, tripe/stomach lining is actually fairly popular here, seeing as how it's a key ingredient in menudo soup, which is mostly tripe and hominy...

The secret to eating any evil-looking food is to just not think about what they actually are or what they once looked like. At least the way we prepare them around here, once cooked most evil-looking foods (brains, tripe, tongue, testicles, gizzards, various other organs) don't look all that terrible...

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Originally Posted by ShineAqua

JMET: how deep south do you live? I'm in Va. and I gotta say that blacks are still pretty damn hated arround here. :cry:

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I'm farther down in Florida than JMET is, right outside of Tampa, and the racism that happens here is astonishing, and sometimes I feel like I'm back in the days of segregation.

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Originally Posted by sleeveboy

Tripe isn't all that bad. It is a staple in the cuisines of many different cultures, from Spain to Vietnam.

It's especially good in pho, a type of Vietnamese stew.

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Yeah, I'll verify this. There's a Vietnamese soup place right off of UNLV campus I go to from time to time, and beef tripe is one of the many things you can add to the soup, though I tend to avoid it in favor of beef flank steak and brisket ;)

My mom's actually using it right now, as we speak, in this funky Filipino stew called Kareh-Kareh (sp). Personally I can't stand the stuff, but a lot of native Filipinos absolutely love it :yuck:

Tripe is nasty, but if you look on all those higher shleves on the meat case, you will see all sorts of nasty stuff...

Like this...http://www.surebeam.com/

Anyone ever seen pickled tofu. Scary, scary stuff, you'd think just the look of the thing would let people know that "this is not food", but it's eaten anyway, although mostly by asians.

Scrapple, breakfast of champions!

James

Hey, I'm all about the black-eyed peas. My father was from the South, so I had some of those kinds of things growing up as a kid.

Are grits a "Southern" food as well? I could be stupid and wrong, but I think they are. Like those too.

Black-eyed peas and salt pork is greatness.

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I'm farther down in Florida than JMET is, right outside of Tampa, and the racism that happens here is astonishing, and sometimes I feel like I'm back in the days of segregation.

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I once saw a white power guy in Houston... I wanted to break my bottle (that I had in my hand at the time) over his head. Fucking asshole.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Are grits a "Southern" food as well? I could be stupid and wrong, but I think they are. Like those too.

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They're a Southern food but only in the eastern South, like Georgia or the Carolinas. Only a handful really eats them in, say, western Texas.

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I once saw a white power guy in Houston... I wanted to break my bottle (that I had in my hand at the time) over his head. Fucking asshole.

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The area I live in was once a Klan hotbed so I see people of this stripe fairly often. Thing is, the Mexicans have been really fruitful lately and now outnumber the whites 10 to 1 in some areas and they often buddy up with the blacks, so the racism isn't always very outward but it's certainly there. There's just a lot of "behind the back" talk. I think I've found the reason why chickenshit is white.

My actual feelings on racism can be summed up so: Anyone who thinks their race is superior to any other hasn't been paying much attention to the people it's produced. Shit comes in all colors.

There's just no way that you can beautify this stuff:

http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/graphics/potted1.jpg

Comes in a can.

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Originally Posted by JMET

It is eaten as the main meat in meals...

To explain abit I live in the south where my fathers side of the family is VERY Southern, The family was pro black in the early days in the south when blacks as you all know were hated and therefore took up many of the southern black eating habits due to friends etc. they had...

Therefore I have seen and tried it all...

Tripe
Chitlins
Gopher (the land tortoise not the mammal)
Gator
Cooter (a fresh water turtle)

And of course the non meat foods..

Black eyes peas
Collard greens
Butter Beans
Squash
Okra

And so on and so forth....


No I dont eat that stuff now as im considered the city boy in the family, but at one time or another while I was a kid I had it...

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Er, I don't know what all this talk is of these foods being "black"? Those are southern foods, plain and simple. Yes, some of them, if not most of them orginated from black peoples in the way they are cooked, BUT white and black people alike have been eating them sense they were thought up. Well, your average white person anway. Very rich aristoecrats may have not ate them back in the day, but now, all southerns eat them (well everything BUT the above said meats, but that has more to do with fast food places making certain types of meat seem correct, than racism. The older members of my family have eaten most of those.)

Fun Fact. With out slavery the U.S. would most likely not have BBQ. The cooking process for BBQ orginated from slave owners, for whatever reason, giving their slaves entire pigs to cook for themselves. Not having the more elaborate cooking devices of the time, the slaves learned to cook said pigs in large pits dug in the grownd, giving birth to the first BBQ. This great taste caught on pretty quickly and was loved by all races in the U.S. from coast to coast. It was so loved that it was a common food to be given out at rallies for potential ellected officals.