Pigs feet
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This is not a joke. My mom is Italian, and when I was a kid she would put pigs feet and neck bones in the spaghetti sauce and cook it for hours. This wasn't something we were treated to all the time. She only put pigs feet and neck bones in the spaghetti sauce on special occasions. Mom claimed that the pigs feet gave her spaghetti sauce a better flavor. To this day when we all go back to moms house for a special occasion/holiday she puts pigs feet in the spaghetti sauce and we all love them.
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pickled pig's feet is a common dish for anyone raised in some Medditeranian countries. Don't knock it til you try it. I like them but they are hard to find these days in my area. it sound's like most of you are not used to this cooking which suggests you have a background of Irish, English or other non mediteranian country.
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This also is not a joke. I was brought up in New England and both my parents were born in Quebec. My favorite meal as a child that my mother cooked up was a French Canadian "thing" called pig's feet and ragout. I loved it and still do. The feet were boiled quite a long time as i remember and the ragout was a REALLY thick gravy with little tiny meatballs.
Incidently my mother lived to 99 years and my father 92. Was it the pigs feet?????
I have also just returned from Scotland and tried hagis for the first time. That also was good served with a sauce that I didn't really want to know the ingredients, though I know what hagis is.
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Not just pigs.....I was mortified one day to witness a Jamaican co-worker heating up "chicken foot soup" in the microwave at work. Once I asked around to friends in Mexico also, they said the feet are a common treat in or out of soup.
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I'm confused!
I always thought haggis is the innards of a sheep: stomach, heart, lungs, liver, and other um-ums.
How does one hunt the innards of a domestic animal?
Or was that intended as a joke which dense ole me just didn't get?
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I always thought haggis is the innards of a sheep: stomach, heart, lungs, liver, and other um-ums.
How does one hunt the innards of a domestic animal?
Or was that intended as a joke which dense ole me just didn't get?
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No, no, easy traveller. That's a myth put about by those who like eating it but don't want to be thought of of as supporting blood sports.
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http://www.electricscotland.com/haggis/haggis1.html