Have You Ever Eaten Pigs Feet?

[Parche]

:shrug:
:hi:

[sazemisery]

1. I've never been THAT hungry. n/t

[Strong Atheist]

2. No, nor do I want to, but I would defend your right to

choose to do so:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6402537

[suninvited]

3. no

I saw some once, but the pigs were still using them.

[Swede]

4. Yes I have.

Not the pickled ones.

[Ohio Joe]

5. I prefer pickled pigs feet

Very tasty :9

[Throd]

6. Many times, but never when sober.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. No, but I've eaten chicken feet.

Dim sum, Chinatown, Boston.

[unpossibles]

8. no and proud of it. nt

[Beer Snob-50]

9. never pickled!

my grandmother used to use them in her tomatoe sauce. awesome

[susanr516]

10. Nope, but my grandmother loved them

There was always a jar of those scary things in her refrigerator.

[Iggo]

11. Oh hell no.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. I tried them once. It's not an experience that I will be repeating.

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. yes

and they are nasty

[deoxyribonuclease]

14. Yum

Mmm... braised pig feet.

http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_5763_make-chinese-pigs-feet.html

Americans need to get over their squeamishness when it comes to eating animal parts!

[Petrushka]

15. Yes. Pickled and unpickled. My grandmother & great-grandmother made huge white enamel pans of them

. . . for holidays. Delicious. The stuff in a jar doesn't
look or taste the same as the homemade . . . especially
when manufacturers add all of that neon pink food coloring.
Yech-h.

[nina_mi]

16. Pigs feet & pig hocks

Make a delicious tasty 'headcheese', boiled for at least 6 hours, in a huge white enamel pot with onion, garlic, salt and pepper, peel the meat off the bones put in casserole dish pour liquid left from boiling over the meat, refrigerate. The fat settles on top after refrigerating, remove the fat and what a treat! We call it 'headcheese', it's not, never used or even tasted the head. Never tasted pickled pigs feet either.
Chicken soup with chicken feet added 6 to 8 to a pot of chicken soup, gives the soup a flavor out of this world. It's the way real chicken soup should taste.

[Petrushka]

21. Sounds similar . . .

. . . to what my grandmother & great-grandmother made, usually for Easter.
(Polish-Lithuanian traditional dish, perhaps.) They gave the hocks and/or pigs
feet a good scrubbing and, if necessary, a shave; simmered them in plenty of water
till the meat left the bone. The only seasoning they added to the salted
cooking water was a few whole bay leaves and whole dried red pepper pods, which
were removed from the broth after the meat was cooked. A few times, however,
they used regular pickling spices from the grocers; but bay leaves and dried
red pepper pods were a must. When the meat was falling off the bones, the
bones were removed from the broth, the meat & broth poured into enamel pans and
allowed to cool overnight, to set up like Jello. Then, the following day, the
pig's feet were served with a cruet of vinegar on the table for those who liked 'em
"pickled" . . . as a sorta appetizer before the main meal.

Anyway . . . :hi:

Since there was always a chicken-coop and chickens pecking around the backyard, a
day would arrive two or three times a year when the chickens were "ready", when
my great-grandma would begin wringing their necks and wielding the hatchet, grandma
catching them and dunking 'em in the boiling cauldron, mom plucking feathers (which
were saved and later cleaned for use in pillows and feather-ticks), and I (beginning
at about 4-5 years of age) being allowed to work with the tweezers, pulling out those
stubborn, almost child-resistant pin-feathers. Of course, the chickens' feet went into
the soup pot to impart that rich flavor and yellow color seldom present in what's called
"chicken soup" today.



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[BarenakedLady]

17. What's your name?

Puddin'tain

Where do you live?

Down the lane.

What's your number?

Cucumber.

What do you eat?

Pig's feet.






That's as close I get.

[applegrove]

18. No but I've eaten pig's ears. My bother's chinese roomate cooked up a feast

last year. Delish all around. And not at all like the food you get in chinese restaurants.

[bif]

19. My Dad loves smoked ones.

[femmocrat]

20. OMG--- they are an Eastern European delicacy!

They are called studinina or kochinina. They are prepared by cooking in water with some seasonings until the meat falls off the bones, then chilled in an aspic.

The ones in a jar are too vinegary.