How can you eat that???

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Things I struggle with are rollmop herrings..... Another thing that makes me gip is serving hot food with cold food, e.g. hot new potatoes with ham. Bleuurghh!

Defo with you on roll mops, something inherently wrong in myopinion. Maybe missing out on a delicacy but I don't care. Same with the 'surströmmingsskiva' that the Swedes enjoy so much - I'd be hurling in anticipation of the smell and worrying that the tin would explode in my face.

Also cold custard with hot sponge is wrong - must be hot custard!

[Scarlet]

As for skins on things... I like the chewy skin you get when making jam, and rice pudding skin

I bought a few 'ox tongues' once cos they were going cheap Kids were really little. As far as I can remember I tried cooking a few ways but I had to skin it! YUK! It was just like eating gristle with a crunch, I had to pretend to eat it as I didn't want to put the kids off......ugh!

[Guest]

Defo with you on roll mops, something inherently wrong in myopinion.

you can put jellied eels into that category as well. As much as I like jelly I dislike it around meat and fish

[veggiechicken]

I bought a few 'ox tongues' once cos they were going cheap Kids were really little. As far as I can remember I tried cooking a few ways but I had to skin it! YUK! It was just like eating gristle with a crunch, I had to pretend to eat it as I didn't want to put the kids off......ugh!

I remember "pressing" an ox tongue - trying to curl it up enough to fit in a circular cake tin. This grey mass, covered in little bumps, would roll for a while then lollop out over the side of the tin and I'd have to curl it up and start again. It was disgusting - no animal deserves to have something that grotesque in its mouth.

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

The outlaws often had a bit of tongue in the fridge and I always had to politely decline.

I have never tried jellied eel Norfolk Grey, don't think I could. Used to hate catching them when fishing, slime worse than slugs. When I was younger I would never eat Pork Pie because of the jelly, or tinned ham (the pear shaped tin).

Can manage Pork pies now though - with my eyes closed or all in one go

[Guest]

Oh, I just remembered..... cod roe from the chippy . I don't even know if you can still get it. (Not the tinned circular stuff tho,that was normally too strong)

[Verinda]

I absolutely hate runny scrambled egg ugh, the thought of it!

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Black pudding, white pudding, tripe and potted hough all make me heave at the thought of them, bluergh. Although I'm quite partial to fruit pudding (not as in a fruit pudding but the stuff you fry and plonk on a tattie scone).

[Rocketron]

I remember "pressing" an ox tongue - trying to curl it up enough to fit in a circular cake tin. This grey mass, covered in little bumps, would roll for a while then lollop out over the side of the tin and I'd have to curl it up and start again. It was disgusting - no animal deserves to have something that grotesque in its mouth.

I do hope after re-reading, you realise what a ridiculous thing you have posted.

[Alison]

I do hope after re-reading, you realise what a ridiculous thing you have posted.

Looks fine to me

[Greenleaves]

I absolutely detest runny egg yolks irrespective of how they have been cooked.

[Mr Bones]

I was once served rabbit brains (presumably grilled) in the half skull. Did alright until I got down to a mat of hair and wax of the ear canal. Didn't eat the rest near that bit.

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I was once served rabbit brains (presumably grilled) in the half skull. Did alright until I got down to a mat of hair and wax of the ear canal. Didn't eat the rest near that bit.

Asserting that my eggs must be flipped seems rather trifling in comparison.

Anyone had squirrel?

[Greenleaves]

Oh something else that makes me gag......cockles

[Bill HH]

I can well remember my dad tucking into a plate of sheeps brain.

One of my all time favoutites is a ham hock boiled then just served with huge amounts of malt vinegar and piles of bread and butter. Proper scottish mealy pudding (not to confused with the white pudding they sell down south). Because its almost impossible to get i make my own, its just oat meal, pork fat,leeks,herbs and jamaica pepper, its supposed to be in large skins like black pudding but I roll it in cling film and boil it in them. When cold you remove the film, slice it and fry it with your bacon and egg.
A funny thing happened recently, for 65 years I have heaved at the thought of eating black pudding, but this summer I started eating it! It was on a brekfast i bought in a cafe and I am so tight i thought having paid for it I am damn well not going to waste it.
Its the blood that puts people off but if you think about it all that lovely black stuff that you get when roasiting beef is blood.
Can't stand curry or go within ten feet of anyone who has eaten it in the last 48 hours.

I love roast potatoes painted with bovril half way through cooking, however I also sprinkle oxo beef gravy powder on then sometimes, as its easier.
I regularly cook a piece of ham with bay leaves and onions, cheaper than bought sliced ham and far nicer. Our of ten packets of ham in our co-op not one was real ham, all were reconstituted from bits of scrap ham, cleverly made to look like real sliced ham. Cooking your own ham leaves a great stock base for soups.