Angela
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People couldn't afford to be squeamish about food until very recently; every single edible bit would get eaten. That includes countries like England.
"Dressed tripe was a popular nutritious and cheap dish for the British working classes from Victorian times until the latter half of the 20th century.[5][6][7] While it is still popular in many parts of the world today, the number of tripe eaters, and consequently the number of tripe dressers, in the UK has rapidly declined."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
That isn't the case in France, or Italy, or Spain, for that matter, or perhaps also the Balkans, where it is still eaten. In fact, in Italy I think there's a trend to go back to "cucina povera" or poor people's food because it is seen as both more authentic and less processed, and as part of our heritage, which some of us are loathe to give up.
There are still a lot of stands in Firenze which sell trippa alla fiorentina and lampredotto.
If prepared well there's very little that can't be made edible in my experience. I exclude maggoty cheese!
In my experience the French are very enthusiastic eaters of "organ meats", more so than Italians. A friend of mine is married to an Irish-American guy who is very unadventurous when it comes to food, food phobic, actually, when it comes to certain types of food. They cut short their visit to France and went across into Italy partly because the menus were so heavy in those kinds of dishes, and things like snails, frogs legs etc. The man was pining for some simple pasta. I was his friend originally, study buddies, but this is something I really couldn't stand about him. I could never have lived with him.
Rognon de veau-Calf kidneys
"Dressed tripe was a popular nutritious and cheap dish for the British working classes from Victorian times until the latter half of the 20th century.[5][6][7] While it is still popular in many parts of the world today, the number of tripe eaters, and consequently the number of tripe dressers, in the UK has rapidly declined."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
That isn't the case in France, or Italy, or Spain, for that matter, or perhaps also the Balkans, where it is still eaten. In fact, in Italy I think there's a trend to go back to "cucina povera" or poor people's food because it is seen as both more authentic and less processed, and as part of our heritage, which some of us are loathe to give up.
There are still a lot of stands in Firenze which sell trippa alla fiorentina and lampredotto.
If prepared well there's very little that can't be made edible in my experience. I exclude maggoty cheese!
In my experience the French are very enthusiastic eaters of "organ meats", more so than Italians. A friend of mine is married to an Irish-American guy who is very unadventurous when it comes to food, food phobic, actually, when it comes to certain types of food. They cut short their visit to France and went across into Italy partly because the menus were so heavy in those kinds of dishes, and things like snails, frogs legs etc. The man was pining for some simple pasta. I was his friend originally, study buddies, but this is something I really couldn't stand about him. I could never have lived with him.
Rognon de veau-Calf kidneys