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names ........... my mother also used to make tripe. There were 2 or 3 types, and I preferred one of them to the others, but always ate whichever one she'd cooked ...... with a sprinkling of vinegar over it.

I seem to remember that we ate tripe, as well as horse meat, more often in the '40s than later on.

Maggie when daughter lived in your area they used to have a super butcher. He was not cheap and I couldn't begin to explain where his shop is. I think he is still there, it was in the Eastleigh direction by a river I will have to ask her but I am pretty sure there won't be a bus.
Which garden centre has a butcher? We were in both Bambridge and Haskins two weeks ago but didn't spot a butcher at either.

Andysmum, when I moved here, over 30 years ago, there was a fishmonger and butcher in the middle of town. Within 5 years, both had gone.

Winchester is now full of coffee shops, restaurants and mobile phone shops.

Sometimes, on market days, there's a fishmonger and/or a butcher - but not always.
I'd prefer to buy fish and meat from a shop, rather than a trailer open to all sorts of pollution.

There IS a butchers in a garden centre about 3 miles away from where I now live (outside Winchester), but no bus. Daughter took me one - it was expensive, and had no offal.
There's another butcher, recently opened - again not on a bus route - about 2 miles away. Not sure I could walk 4 miles up and down some very steep hills, nowadays :-(

As a veggie names, its all yeeeeuk to me :-D :-D :-D

I don’t like offal. Oddly I could eat school liver - probably because it was so over done.
I used to cook liver sometimes when it was cheap in the butchers but we haven’t done that for years and years. Happy with a steak pie butwould give the steak & kidney a miss.

Parents would sometimes treat ( :-S ) themselves to heart, pigs trotters or tripe. Personally I would rather starve. Don’t give me any Tongue either or brawn.

daughter, who has been hunting liver as well, says that lambs land pigs liver lambs kidney are all available on her Tescos order. I checked on mine not available. Although a liver ready meal is so I have ordered that one.

Strangely although I eat pork and, as a child used to eat pigs' fry cooked by Mum which included the liver, I usually If I can get any, buy lambs liver as it is not so strong. But I would settle for any.

I was in Morrison's yesterday and had a look at the fresh meat counter. They had pig's liver, kidneys and heart. Coop had nothing in that line.

Maggie, is there still a proper butcher in Winchester? If so, don't they sell offal? Perhaps it's a regional thing. :-(

I'm actually annoyed that I can't find meats I used to eat 20+ years ago!
We moved a lot as children, and to save money, would eat 'local' food.

In Malta, mum used to pickle octopus, I used to eat prickly pears.
In Scotland, we ate haggis.
In Cornwall (Mevagissey) we'd eat fresh fish and seafood - though we didn't eat the fish the cat 'gleaned' from the trawlers every day. and brought home to be cooked.

As an adult, we ate a lot of fish in Shetland, in Essex, as ag labs, we ate the pheasants left by the landlord, and our own ducks.
We acquired an abused, depressed drake, and bought a couple of females for company. We intended to keep the ducks for their eggs, but 'Peggy' duck would disappear, lay her eggs in the nearby wood, then reappear with 14 ducklings!

As a 'youff' on poor pay, I survived on offal. It has lots of vitamins, minerals and nutrients - more than muscle meat.
As an 'old biddy'. I'd like to eat more offal, but it can't be found. :-(

True story ...............

Daughter would eat liver somewhat unwillingly when we made it. OH was the cook back then, and she always asked for "just a small piece, Dad".

In her last year of high school, she had a part in a play, Pride and Prejudice. They had rehearsals going late into the evening as it came close to opening night. The school had a boarding house at the time, and the actors and actresses were allowed to eat dinner there. It was incidentally an all girls school and the actors were from the "brother school".

Daughter arrived home late in the evening, and her first words were ..................

"We had liver for dinner and it was MUCH better than yours, Dad" :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

If I remember correctly, it had been fried, when OH usually made a casserole.

I love kidneys but am also noy keen on the smell when they are cooking. Still also have not seen those in Tesco although pre Covid often used to buy them. I looked in quite a large butcher's display today in town, all sorts of meat but no liver.

I don't think I've ever tried heart. I used to buy liver for family meals, but haven't looked for it for ages, so I will check in the shops, when I'm shopping.
The smell of kidney cooking is unpleasant to me, although I'll eat it if served in a pie, but wouldn't choose it.
When a friend and I used to share a whole lamb bought direct from the farmer, I always gave her the kidneys.

A friend felt that her children ought to eat liver at family meals, but they disliked it when she served it. Time for a rethink.
Cut thinly in strips and stir-fried with vegetables and called Chinese meat, they always asked for more :-D

My Mum would often cook roast heart when I was young. I loved it.

In our 'youff' - as agricultural labourers, ex and I regularly had stuffed ox heart for our Sunday roast. It was delicious :-D

...then a few weeks later, we'd have a pheasant or two!

The joys and contradictions of living in the country.

We quite often used to have liver and onions in winter, and I would choose it from the menu from many of the small restaurants found in country places here. OH found it difficult in recent years though to find good calves liver. In the last 2 or 3 years, we also regularly bought frozen steak and kidney pies from a local butcher.

Like Allan, OH and I quite often bought tongue from the deli in the grocery store as a cold meat for salads in summer, although we neve cooked it ourselves. Mum cooked tongue when I was much younger, and I remember that Dad actually made a metal press to fit over a bowl so that she could press the cooked tongue.

We had roasted tongue with a gravy for dinner here a couple of weeks ago. Other offal is a no-no!

My SIL knowing full well that her Brother hated offal cooked some for dinner for us, we ate everything else on the plate but left the offal she said we were ungrateful but she did it on purpose and we left it on purpose. revenge is sweet. :-D

To be honest, I have had both the liver ready meals in the past and the Tesco finest one is OK but the ordinary Tesco one the liver is over cooked for me, it should be almost pink in the middle and not cooked for too long.

sorry but the liver ready meal was not available this weekend. I tried!

Ready Meals. Steak and kidney pie, liver and bacon hotpot, to name a couple that are available in Tesco's. Not to mention dog and cat food. :-)

Island :-D :-D :-D

Must be Tesco suppliers but My puzzle is, what is happening to the livers and kidney if not appearing in the shops. Daughter has also had a problem finding any but I think she did eventually get some in Morrisons.