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This may sound to simple for some of you. Tongue:

Clean and boil, skin it, let cool, slice it, salt and pepper, add some sharp cheese slices, mustard, and good bread, and a glass of cold milk , makes a enjoyable meal. Rio7

Growing up they were simmered with celery and light spices, peeled (important) and sliced to eat or for sandwiches.
May be something new in the stores here, I will have to look.
Doubt I will have to worry about the wife eating too much!

Cow Tongue if done right is awesome.

I find it funny when people wont touch a tongue sandwich but chow down on a Spam sandwich.

Or think fried Catfish and Chicken are a delicacy.

One of my favorite places. Never had tongue there but the lamb chops were great
Had tongue in a basq restaurant in Winnemucca NV.
It was really good. Almost a gelatinous gravy on it.

I haven't eaten tongue since I was a young kid. Mom and dad didn't make enough money in those days to buy “regular” meat. Tongue, chicken, and mutton were the table meats in those days. I liked tongue. I liked it better than mutton which stank-up the house but wasn't bad, taste wish. Squirrel and rabbit was a treat from time to time when ever dad had time to go hunting.

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.

Yes ^ ^
Back when my folks were young and before that,
the "poor " folks bought junk cuts like brisket and
ribs and chicken wings and tongue, etc.
The stores would durn near give away a big package
of chicken wings and fatty boney cuts of meat.
Now, all that stuff costs as much or more than a
decent steak, and people slather on sauces and
spices to where you can't even get a taste of meat.
People have forgotten that spices and sauces
came about to cover up the half spoiled smell
and taste before everybody had refrigeration.

As I've related many times, in the 50s, Swift & Co gave away the "trim" bits which even included ribs. In the part of Illinois between Belleville and East St Louis, almost every intersection had a cinderblock and window screen BBQ joint run by some older Black man and featuring ribs and snoots. Those old men cooked trim over hickory wood low and slow, and you would roll your eyes back at the first taste of it. St Louis style BBQ is hickory smoked with a thick, sweet tomato sauce applied heavily before, during, and after cooking.

For employees like my Dad, ribs, tongue, calf brains, kidneys, liver, cheeks, and pork snoots were free for the taking. He never did bring home any snoots (that's noses for the snobbish among you) but I grew up on all the rest of that. I genuinely pity anyone who who has such food aversions that they turn their snoots up at such fare. You really have no clue at what you are missing.

You are not snooty folks!

I've been there, done that, got the T-shirt. March meets Friday 1st round T/F qualifying at two, dinner, 2cnd round qualifying. Home in Visalia at 11:00 pm. Up at five, leave by six, breakfast in McFarland at seven, Famoso by eight. Pickled tongue on sourdough is damn good!

Lots of stores in Arkansas sell snoots, ears,feet and such. Used to sell pig tails before they started docking them. Never saw chicken feet until we got a very large latino population. miles

When we would butcher a beef, Mom would make a meal of bones.
She would roast a banner full of bones that still had good stuff on them.


4 of us sitting there putting a pack of dogs to shame. Gnawing the good
guts off those greasy bones. I loved it. Shiny hair, no strain sh--ts😁!

My family would have to be dang hungry to eat that now.
Wife was a town girl, daughters are just like her.
No fat, no cartilage, they refuse the eat meat from a bone.
Pork chop night, I get 3 bones to gnaw on before I take a chop from
the plate. That's ok. They give me the best part!

And yet many who claim to not be snooty turn theirs up at hot dogs.

I like bones myself, but no one could compete with Mom when she was still with us. She would scrounge any bone from any plate (some from people's hands). I swear that she had some buried out in the yard for lean times.

Ewwww....they put tongues and snoots in those things!

Azzholes too!

Dont forget [bleep]!