Offal, tripe and all that

[Gemini]

I don't eat offal.
I'm sure it is very good for me, liver is full of iron etc, but I can't bear the thought of any of it. My mother loves it, dad was like me - squeamish!
My mum loves tripe, uncooked, with pepper and vinegar. She misses it, as it doesn't seem to be available any more.

Do any of you enjoy offal?

[Oma]

I will eat liver but nothing else my parents loved Tripe with vinegar and salt &pepper you can still buy it in Morrisons Brian likes kidneys horrible things , my uncle used to love stuffed hearts . Just the thought turns my stomach

[Shemadee]

We eat liver and occasionally kidney usually fried with bacon etc. My dad used to eat tripe with a white sauce - yuk! Heart used to be on the menu at school but fortunately I took sandwiches!

[Gemini]

I can't bear the thought of eating any of these, but brains would be the worst, closely followed by testicles

[Grauntie Mag]

I just had this conversation with a surgeon attending to my face. He said he enjoys general surgery and that made me ask whether he ate offal. He said he did but didn't like heart!!
I couldn't possibly eat any offal, it's bad enough eating meat if you think about it alive and kicking.😬😝

[Daisy]

My father's family were butchers, so nothing was off limits. I really like liver and kidney. I think tripe's a bit yuck - horrible texture. The only thing I really don't like is udder, but you never see it on sale these days, and I suspect a lot of these bits of animals go into pet food.

[Libra Gran]

Love liver and kidneys,never tried tripe looks appalling let alone taste it. My mum used to love tongue in sandwiches yuk.

[Qwerty]

No not for me but cook liver for OH but it has to be pigs liver

[Mimi]

Just one word is needed

[Plantaholic]

Used to eat lambs liver but went off it, I dont eat any offal now.

[Nanto2girls]

We sometimes have liver, and don't mind kidney in a pie with steak, but don't eat any other offal.

My granddad used to have honeycomb tripe with salt,pepper and vinegar on, but I never tried it. In the winter he used to have tripe with boiled onions. He used to eat udder (was called elder in these parts) but I never tried that either.
When I was little we had relatives who had moved down south,but when they came visiting,they always took some pigs trotters home with them.
There is still a stall in our meat market, that sells tripe.

[Gemini]

Nan2, that reminds me, pigs trotters and cows heels were other items my mum liked, when they were readily available!

[Avo]

I eat liver and kidney. I love fois gras! I don't get put off about thinking about where it comes from - it's just food to me....

[ZIZI]

We often have liver, bacon and onions but that is about all I can get the husband to eat. I love lunch tongue. When I was a child my mother would often cook tripe but I hated the look of it, she would also use a white sauce with onions. I haven't had it for years thank goodness. We used to have stuffed hearts but again I haven't had them for years. Husband will not eat steak and kidney pies only steak ones. I once bought steak and kidney pies and he refused to eat it. I said pick the kidney out but he said the whole pie was tainted!

[Oma]

I agree with him ZIZI even if you pick them out it still has the taste of kidney , yuk , Gem my Mam liked cow heel and cows udder OMG I can still smell it it was vile . Brian likes lunch tongue I couldn't eat it just the look and texture puts me off