Tripe.

[Ancient Citizen]

I love it in summer with salt and vinegar and salad.
For all the mard arses on here who retch at the sight of it, I suggest you try cowheel as well, it's a fucking huge foot with all the tasty gelatinous tendons and gristle still intact.
Goes particularly well with udder and sweetbreads.

 

[BluePurgatory]

Ever had it? I doubt many have under the age of 40. My mate mentioned it in the pub tonight and it evoked memories of miserable meal times! My mum would buy it from the tripe shop. My dad preferred tripe called 'honeycomb' and my mum liked 'slut', yes it was a fukin slut! Horrid slimy flavourless shite that we would have with salad. It needed copious amounts of salt vinegar and pepper just to give it any kind of flavour!. Nowadays I believe it is mostly used in pet food thank god.

Its name says it all. I have never touch it nor would I eat pigs trotters, tongue, kidney, heart or jellied eels.

 

[Ragnarok]

I love it in summer with salt and vinegar and salad.
For all the mard arses on here who retch at the sight of it, I suggest you try cowheel as well, it's a fucking huge foot with all the tasty gelatinous tendons and gristle still intact.
Goes particularly well with udder and sweetbreads.

FFS

 

[tiggsywiggsywoo]

We had it at my grandparents,they got it from the UCP stall at Ashton indoor market.
My brother was complaining about it and my grandad said if it's good enough for the greyhounds,it's good enough for you.I've eaten it in France boiled in milk with an onion in,and it wasn't too bad.

My mates mam used to work on that stall. Remember it well. My mam and dad used to eat it too, along with something called Elder. God knows what that was.

 

[WyongBlue]

I hate it, had to eat it as a kid growing up in the early 70's, foul stuff it is........

 

[@nimal]

My Father (1917 -2007) a blue through and through, was brought up in a tripe shop (which sold only tripe) in Denton. It was between the Red Lion and the Gardeners Arms

I had it regularly as a kid with fish and chips. Cold covered in salt,pepper and vinegar, I would cut a small square to have with each chip and it was was REALLY lovely

My Dad had it boiled with milk and onions, but I never tried that, I was a fussy eater

 

[Alex the Blue]

Had it as a kid when it was cooked with milk and onions, the texture was crap but it was just about edible.

Africans over here eat it a lot. My African girlfriend cooks it for ages in some sort of pepperer flavoured concoction, taste OK but the texture is still crap.

Last time I ate at hers I thought she'd fed me tripe that had a slightly different texture ie just a bit crunchy. I asked after others had left what I'd just eaten, it was then she told me it was a goats brain. She's keen for me to try bulls testicles but I'm avoiding that if I can.

I quite like Bury black puddings and haggis but never felt inclined to actually ask exactly what the ingredients are. God alone knows what goes into some of the burghers we eat.

 

[scotty123]

I can see all you younger cellarites gagging at the thought of "tripe" what you have to remember is that when we grew up in the 50s and 60s there was no "fast food joints'' except your local chippy and they often had ques a mile long outside at tea time and you also took your own plates and bowls for the servers to put your tea on... weird i know unimaginable today.
Here is a list of a working class Salford standard diet that i grew up within them times.
Tripe, cowheels, pigs trotters, pig or sheeps heads boiled and the meat scraped off, sweetbreads (sheeps bollocks) kindney and liver boiled in a hessian bag then served with mash and the boiled juices, peas pudding, cheese and bacon dip, Scotts or Quaker oats smothered in black syrup or golden syrup.
Sundays was treat day, bacon and egg in the morning, then the Sunday roast but the cheapest meat Mum could buy and always served at 2pm then at 6 it was sandwiches withthe cheapest potted spread she could buy followed by tinned fruit and horrible condensed milk, the roast leftovers were eaten by dad fried in a pan when he came home from the pub at 10pm.
Ah, the good old days, potted beef sandwich anyone !

 

[pinkwheeltrim]

They still sell it at Todmorden Market and there is always a few hardy pensioners hanging around the stall.

On a side note, when my grandad used to have a few pints of mild he would get all dewy eyed about some lass who he knobbed back in the 40s. She used to work in a Tripe Shop in Bradford and would bring him lots of the stuff when they met up.
As he got drunker he would get a bit nasty, jab an accusing finger in my Nans face and say "You've never brought me any fucking tripe!".

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I can see all you younger cellarites gagging at the thought of "tripe" what you have to remember is that when we grew up in the 50s and 60s there was no "fast food joints'' except your local chippy and they often had ques a mile long outside at tea time and you also took your own plates and bowls for the servers to put your tea on... weird i know unimaginable today.
Here is a list of a working class Salford standard diet that i grew up within them times.
Tripe, cowheels, pigs trotters, pig or sheeps heads boiled and the meat scraped off, sweetbreads (sheeps bollocks) kindney and liver boiled in a hessian bag then served with mash and the boiled juices, peas pudding, cheese and bacon dip, Scotts or Quaker oats smothered in black syrup or golden syrup.
Sundays was treat day, bacon and egg in the morning, then the Sunday roast but the cheapest meat Mum could buy and always served at 2pm then at 6 it was sandwiches withthe cheapest potted spread she could buy followed by tinned fruit and horrible condensed milk, the roast leftovers were eaten by dad fried in a pan when he came home from the pub at 10pm.
Ah, the good old days, potted beef sandwich anyone !

Potted beef, still have it now on proper oven bottom barms, oops Lancashire oven bottom muffins!!
Pearsons butchers in Ashton market hall do the best potted beef I've ever had. The muffin stall is opposite. Plain crisps in the middle, it's a really tasty lunch.

Brawn. My dad used to love this stuff(still sold in Ashton market) I tried it once as a kid, but when my sister said it was made from brains, that was it!