I'm gonna predict the future

[jjohnwm]

BTW, did you ever cook a kidney? ...Ever watch someone make chitlins?...I saw folks in town cook possum and tan the skins.
In a frakin apartment building!

I'm hoping civilization will lift us above such needs.

They're not needs; they're wants.

Today's mantra of acceptance and tolerance and respect for the traditions of others should allow for people to say and do as they please...as long as they aren't harming someone else while doing so. That includes cooking and eating things that may not appeal to others.

But, whatever...no skin off my nose. My freezer is full of game meat, including delicacies like hearts, liver, kidneys...you know: offal.

It's just such a shame that the appearance of Mad Cow disease in recent decades has forced me to curtail my enjoyment of some of the choicest bits; I will likely never again have the chance to enjoy the successful hunter's breakfast treat of scrambled eggs and brains. Awesome stuff!

 

[pwmin]

Hunting license applications are up in Colorado. I was hoping people wouldn't apply and I would have a better chance at getting certain licenses, but I guess that's what everyone else was thinking!

 

[jjohnwm]

Lol, I have just spent most of the morning trying to get my elk draw results for Montana.

Good luck on yours!

 

[pwmin]

Thanks. Good luck to you, too. I know my first choice I won't get, but I should get the second choice. I think I have 18 points now.

 

[Ulu]

There are many things which are wonderful to eat but awful to cook. Since I am the cook here, I don't tend to make anything that smells unappealing during the preparation.

I quit hunting long ago. I wasn't willing to live where the hunting was good, but I couldn't make a good living. I still fish because I like fish and boating, and there are 6 lakes within easy reach.

BUT I put my boat up for the duration. All the lakes are closed. Sierra counties have closed the trout season to prevent infected tourists from traveling there.

 

[Ulu]

. . . elk draw . . .

. . . I think I have 18 points now. . . .

Oh yeah, there was that business too. Big brother at work.
Line up and hand over your money . . . no guarantees though.

But I will say the bear population is rising fast, and I think we may see exterminations as they come down out of the forest to forrage.
Also hogs and other varmints have become a problem. I've been hearing about more cats.

I believe here will be more jobs for pro hunters in the future.
But I'm to old to track game.

 

[Ogertron3000]

BTW, did you ever cook a kidney? My great granny used to cook them for her dog.
The dog was quite healthy.
The whole kitchen stunk for 2 days.

Ever watch someone make chitlins?
That's some stanky chit mon . . .
It's enough to make one swear off food completely from the smell.

People along the Ohio river used to cook some strange things.
I saw folks in town cook possum and tan the skins.
In a frakin apartment building!

I'm hoping civilization will lift us above such needs.

I've never cooked a kidney, I hate the smell too. There's an English butcher near here that makes all that kind of stuff, you just buy the pie and stick it in the oven when required so don't have to put up with the smelly preparation. Wife is disgusted by it and would never eat one.

There's no chiitlins here, I don't even know what they are? Same as grits, I hear them mentioned on US tv shows and such but no idea what they are.

I don't think it's "needs" as you said. Food is also tradition and culture, I find it sad that everywhere I've been to in the world there's been a McDonald's (except Vietnam but I think they are there now) saying that, I've also eaten there when sick of the local food and want something familiar. It would still be a shame if local traditions die out and the world becomes the same no matter where you are.

 

[BIG-G]

Where I grew up In rural western NC mountains, We (my family) still have chickens, and goats raise pigs and cows.
Hunt and fish for a lot of out meat.

We make Livermush which is made with organ meats of a pig, ground and cooked with corn meal and spices. I assume it’s probably similar to scrapple or offal.

When I was a child we would hunt squirrel and rabbit, dove, ground hog, raccoon and opossum.
Deer and bear were on the list but that was for the adults to hunt.

Ive eaten things that a lot of people have never even seen lol.

The squirrel was cooked with head on and my grandfather would just about fight for the head he would crack it with a spoon and slurp it out like someone eating an oyster on the shell!

 

[Ulu]

All that ended for my family in 1940's. They were rural in the 1920's but the town came to them 80 years ago.

Dad's folks were on the edge of Appalachia. I lived there for a bit in 5th grade.
I went to school in a 1880's wooden schoolhouse teaching grades 1 thru 5, when Dad was in Vietnam about 1964.

You could still hunt and trap a little back then, as their property backed up to a stream coming out of the hills.
But grandma wouldn't let me set out the traps, as it required a license by then.

Anyhow, they came over during one of the Irish famines, and I am sure they ate squirrel and coon and deer and whatever they could catch.

 

[Ulu]

...there's no chiitlins here, I don't even know what they are? Same as grits....

After you wash the pig's intestines,over and over until your hands smell like pig poop for a week, they are fried in lard to make chittlins.
I've only eaten them once....it's like really bad fried pork skin.

Grits is just coarse meal from a big grain called homminy, boiled to a mush, and then often fried in patties or eaten like mashed potatoes.
Pretty tasteless without salt, pepper and butter. We ate Malt-o-Meal or Cream of wheat or Quaker Oats, because we could cook it ouselves as kids, and my mom wasn't up to cooking grits at 6AM when the TV came on.

By Capt. Kangaroo time, we'd already cooked and eaten our mush, with way too much sugar, jelly, or whatever we could find in the kitchen.
We were very poor while Dad was in vietnam. I remember having nothing but oatmeal and molasses.

Ever since, I can taste molasses in anything that has it.

I have eaten menudo, which is basically hot pepper soup with cow stomach and ox tails, and they put the homminy in whole.
The worst variety has no oxtail, and the fattiest part of the tripas (tripe).

My mom and german grandmas made goetta, which is a sort of breakfast saussage with tiny oats and spices in it. It was made from ground pig bits of various origin.