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NormanD wrote:In a café in Barcelona. Our Spanish was rudimentary (and a lot of people would speak Catalan anyway). We didn't know what the dish of the day was, it wasn't in the dictionary. We asked the waiter. He explained by making pig grunts and oinks, pinching his face as he did so.
Pig's cheeks? Who's ever heard of pig's cheeks? So much for miming.
So we ordered it and got two portions of ....pig's cheeks.
It was pretty horrible. We kept thinking of Upton Sinclair's description of the Chicago meat industry using every part of the pig except for its squeal. And Caroline Aherne's "eyeballs, earholes, and arseholes"
Maybe now they are - I've even seen them in Waitrose. But back then - nah. I also had a lifetime of cultural upbringing and religious prejudice to overcome, and was just about OK with a pork sausage or fried strip. The cheek of a chazer?! Oy a broch. Next you'll be eating its tuchas. Feh.AndyM wrote:Norm - get with the programme, pig cheeks are delicious, although calf cheeks are even better.
Cue for very old joke:Ronald wrote:Once in the capital of Guatemala I was eating a hamburger when for some reason I took off the upper part (I had already eaten half of it). To my disgust I saw a big fat worm on top of a piece of lettuce. So I returned the hamburger to my plate and wondered if I had already eaten any.
Ronald wrote:Once in the capital of Guatemala I was eating a hamburger when for some reason I took off the upper part (I had already eaten half of it). To my disgust I saw a big fat worm on top of a piece of lettuce. So I returned the hamburger to my plate and wondered if I had already eaten any.
Adam Blake wrote:Ronald wrote:Once in the capital of Guatemala I was eating a hamburger when for some reason I took off the upper part (I had already eaten half of it). To my disgust I saw a big fat worm on top of a piece of lettuce. So I returned the hamburger to my plate and wondered if I had already eaten any.
The worm's meat was probably just as nutritious as the cow's.
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