Every so often something in my local paper will make me giggle in hysterics and want to share it with the rest of the world. This time I'm pleased to feature: pig parts.
Item 1: fresh butter-tender lean sausage, sounds good to me!
Item 2: FAMOUS, MEATY and HURKY? WTF?! This is what rice sausage is. It's a Slovak thing, hurky must be short for hurka, which is short for jaternica, which is special. White or dark? Hmm. Choices. I'd imagine the dark might have more blood in it. And I've eaten blood sausage, so, no thanks.
Item 3: EXTRA MEATY Scrapple! More mushy pork bits. I've never tried the scrapple but some people are obviously huge fans. You fry it up in lard and it's supposably delicious.
Then you have your blocks of cheap white cheese, famous hams, and another local specialty, ring bologna. I grew up on ring bologna. It's bologna sausage, and you slice and eat it. It is not at all like sliced Oscar Mayer bologna.
At parties you serve slices of ring bologna on toothpics with chunks of white cheese. If it's a hot summer day party you make sure that the plate of bologna and cheese is sitting on a bed of ice. Our friends make their own ring bologna with fresh venison tidbits. Don't even get me started on Lebanon bologna, that's delish, too, even if it's cow and not pig. Real crowd pleasers.
Then there are the indoor specials. I know what they mean, more specials in the store. But I had to think about what meats are reserved for indoor consumption.
I used to eat anything and everything. Now I can't even think about digging into haggis or head cheese without feeling nauseous. The great thing is nowadays we don't have to eat the entire pig unless we want to. So I won't be stopping in this market looking for jumbo pans of extra meaty scrapple.
Do you have any local delicacies that you think are, frankly, kinda disgusting?
Menudo and chorizo are the only disgusting things I can think of that people around here eat. Of course, a couple of months ago I went to a restaurant that served oxtail as an appetizer, which grosses me out too.
Posted by: SFChick74 | 18 February 2010 at 10:35 PM
I love chorizo.
I've never had oxtail and never will. eeeew
Posted by: blaugra | 19 February 2010 at 11:16 AM