My Dad worked for Swift & Co. and got "trim" parts for free. We ate a lot of beef tongue. Boil in salted water, skin, and slice is both the simplest and best way to fix it. But I never had it pickled or smoked so "best" is a choice of one and thus I might be wrong. I'd sure like to find out!
Tongue is perhaps the best meat on the animal. It is mild, completely free of fat and sinew, very fine-grained, and simple to fix.
It's been funny watching white folk, usually liberals, "discover" tacos de lengua over the last couple decades thinking they stumbled on some secret poor brownskin food.
