Is there anybody who likes tripe? Have you tasted it?

Me and my mate have this long running joke about tripe which i wont go into! But seriously I wondered if anyone liked it? Cooks it? What you eat it with? apart from your dogs complete!

Let me know I would be very interested.

For the record I have never tried it....but might consider it.....just so I know...........:o

WM

My dad used to eat it, it looks totally disgusting and smells the same. Could never bring my self to try it.:gag: :hihi: :hihi:

Yep....I think I would have to be totally bladdered to try it really.

I know some people like it though. I did a bit of research and there is even a Tripe Club! Very weird and wacky! lol....

Hi WM yes i love tripe i eat it cold with vinegar,salt and pepper my mother gave it to us kids when we were young.My children have tasted it but did not like it.My mother in law used to cook it in milk with onions,tasted revolting.Myself I like bag also my kids with salt,pepper and vinegar .They eat tripe down here in Leicester but cooked.You have got to aquire a taste for it, but give it a try u never no? let me no regards old_granny

My dad loves it and buys it from the butchers on sharrowvale or barnsley market. I have never, isn't it cows stomach?
Yes he loves his tripe and onions!!!

Yes I luv tripe cooked in milk wiv new potatoes & onions...Yummmy

My uncle feeds it to his dog. I can't cope with being in the same house as it when it's cooking :gag:

i used to buy green tripe for the dogs,it stank,but the dogs loved it, the tripe you buy today is bleached and boiled to make it look edible,can anyone say if it has a nutritional value once bleached.
also my mother used to love chicklin and bag,loads of salt and vinegar.

Originally posted by old_granny my grandmother used to put it in stew as well,arrgh.
Hi WM yes i love tripe i eat it cold with vinegar,salt and pepper my mother gave it to us kids when we were young.My children have tasted it but did not like it.My mother in law used to cook it in milk with onions,tasted revolting.Myself I like bag also my kids with salt,pepper and vinegar .They eat tripe down here in Leicester but cooked.You have got to aquire a taste for it, but give it a try u never no? let me no regards old_granny

what is it made from?

:gag:

I remember the tripe stall in Castle Market where you could get cold tripe in vinegar. There were little saucers with the portions on, people would stand there and eat it. I've never had it, would rather eat poo ;-)

Is it still sold like this in the market?

Originally posted by steelcitybab
what is it made from? :gag:

You really don't wanna know :shakes:

I wouldn't eat if if my life depended on it! Really! :gag: :gag: :gag:

K x

Originally posted by fhain29
I remember the tripe stall in Castle Market where you could get cold tripe in vinegar. There were little saucers with the portions on, people would stand there and eat it. I've never had it, would rather eat poo ;-)

Is it still sold like this in the market?

Yes it's still sold in Castle Market , but not on the little saucers.
You buy it by the kilo/pound, its nice with vinegar,salt and pepper, just as old-granny says, and pigs bag with vinegar and salt and a couple of slices of bread and butter is a nice change to have for your tea. good old fashion grub, also you could try cow heal with vinegar /salt and pepper or boiled in stew, this makes the gravy more glutinous

deecee
:thumbsup:

Originally posted by steelcitybab
what is it made from?

:gag:
It is the 'stomach lining' of a sheep :gag:
People who like this stuff would probably remember eating 'pigs trotters' (feet) like my grandad did. :gag:

This puts meat eating into perspective -- if meat was not so 'sanitised' ie added to burgers, made unrecognisable from It's origin, possibly most people probably would not eat it.

For me, there is no difference between:
A Big Mac
A 'Juicy Steak'
Tripe
A sheep's eye (Arabic delicacy) (?)
or a pigs testicle (other 'delicacy, origin forgotten)

I haven't eaten meat since '79. :rant: :rant:
Rant over ;)

my nan and grandad used to eat it every saturday with celery and pickled onions, i tried it once when i was little and have never touched it since.
Nasty horrible stuff although i do think that the sight of it in a huge piece is strangely fascinating.

"Who will join me in a dish of tripe? It soothes, appeases the anger of the outraged, stills the fear of death, and reminds us of tripe eaten in former days, when there was always a half-filled pot of it on the stove."
--Gunter Grass

"But as he stamped and shivered in the rain, My stale philosophies had served him well; Dreaming about his girl had sent his brain Blanker than ever--she'd no place in Hell.... 'Good God!' he laughed, and slowly filled his pipe, Wondering 'why he always talked such tripe'. "
--Siegfried Sassoon in "A Subaltern"



FACT: Quality tripe can increase your libedo four fold.

FACT: Tripe is full of ESSENTIAL vitamins and minerals

FACT: Tripe is best served fresh with lashing of salt n' vinegar - come down and try some, you're in for a treat.

These are facts from The Tripe Shop in Leeds Kirkgate Market and is one of the last few remaining in the World, and certainly the first ever to appear on the Internet! The Tripe Shop specialises in only the very finest quality tripe. They have a staggering selection of choice pieces, all at excellent value for money.

You can take a look http://www.leedsmarket.com/thetripeshop.htm

WM

Originally posted by WintersMist
"Who will join me in a dish of tripe? It soothes, appeases the anger of the outraged, stills the fear of death, and reminds us of tripe eaten in former days, when there was always a half-filled pot of it on the stove."
--Gunter Grass

"But as he stamped and shivered in the rain, My stale philosophies had served him well; Dreaming about his girl had sent his brain Blanker than ever--she'd no place in Hell.... 'Good God!' he laughed, and slowly filled his pipe, Wondering 'why he always talked such tripe'. "
--Siegfried Sassoon in "A Subaltern"



FACT: Quality tripe can increase your libedo four fold.

FACT: Tripe is full of ESSENTIAL vitamins and minerals

FACT: Tripe is best served fresh with lashing of salt n' vinegar - come down and try some, you're in for a treat.

These are facts from The Tripe Shop in Leeds Kirkgate Market and is one of the last few remaining in the World, and certainly the first ever to appear on the Internet! The Tripe Shop specialises in only the very finest quality tripe. They have a staggering selection of choice pieces, all at excellent value for money.

You can take a look http://www.leedsmarket.com/thetripeshop.htm

WM

I'm glad it's the Tripe Shop and not you who can't spell "libido".

Yes I can spell most of the time, I just copied and pasted.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Draggletail
[B]It is the 'stomach lining' of a sheep :gag:
People who like this stuff would probably remember eating 'pigs trotters' (feet) like my grandad did. :gag:

sorry to disagree with you Draggletail, but tripe is the stomach lining of the cow.....not the sheep. I have seen the process of removal and cleaning of the tripes.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think sheeps stomach is used in the making of Haggis. I am sure someone will come up with the answer !!!!

deecee

Originally posted by deecee
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Draggletail
[B]It is the 'stomach lining' of a sheep :gag:
People who like this stuff would probably remember eating 'pigs trotters' (feet) like my grandad did. :gag:

sorry to disagree with you Draggletail, but tripe is the stomach lining of the cow.....not the sheep. deecee
Fair enough. Equally gross (to me) though ;)

These days there's no need to serve such pieces of the carcass as the centre piece of a dish. I don't like the texture of tripe and as such, it never makes it into my kitchen.

i havent had tripe for years but can remember my mam getting it, it was luurrrvly i can tell ya, nowt finer.. drownded in vinegar with lots of salt and pepper. i think the best bit to eat is called honeycomb ( cos its got a pattern on it like that) and not the seam bit if i am remembering right.
My mam used to like bag and buy a quarter of it and eat it walking round town, but i never liked that.

Litha

Why do I keep reading this thread?!? :huh: It's making me feel physically sick! :gag:

K x

:hihi: awww gerraway wi ya, ya just dying to try some arnt ya Kristian :P

Litha

It was interesting to read contributors comments on eating tripe.

A couple of my American friends recently adopted two orphaned children from Azerbajan.

Whilst they were there and unknown to them, they were served tripe in stews.

They both ate the meals as their hosts were giving them their best food.

When they found out they had been eating tripe they both were surprised as they had never eaten offal before.

After finding out that tripe was a cows stomach lining, one was physically sick and declined any further offerings.

The other relished the tripe and carried on enjoying it for the rest of their stay.

From this I take it that ignorance is bliss and one man's poison is another man's food.

Have eaten and enjoyed both tripe and bag since childhood. We used to also stand at the fish stalls in the Castle market and eat cockles off the little plates at the front of the stalls.
I never knew (or qustioned) what it was at the time - in my parents hopuse you ate what was given to you or went hungry.

I actually had some tripe from a local butchers not too long ago just to see if I would still enjoy it (I did). My kids were horrified lol!! We also had to eat rabbit casserole once in my childhhod but I couldnt eat mine cos of all the little bones. Also used to hate seeing all the dead rabbits hung upside down in Castle Market with their undersides split open. Yeukkkkk! :gag:

Originally posted by Litha
:hihi: awww gerraway wi ya, ya just dying to try some arnt ya Kristian :P

Litha

Litha,

I would honestly rather lick John McCririck's armpits! :gag:

K x

I've had Tripe, Cow Heel and bag. We also used to get fed something referred to as 'Roll'.

It was grey and tubular - Anyone else have that?

Grey and tubular? Was it an unmentionable part of John McCririck's sub-navel anatomy? To my eternal credit I have never dined upon tripe, cow heel, bull pistle, pig trotters, scrag-end of mutton, eel pie, tench or slow worm, or indeed any other examples of the food of the medieval labouring classes.

I have, however, eaten freshly gassed and baited badger in Lincolnshire, poached Osprey eggs at a charming little Scottish place I know, demoiselles of Koala Bear in Brisbane, and last Sunday lunchtime, an entire Red Deer [shot it myself at Chatsworth, with crossbow].

Originally posted by timo
Grey and tubular? Was it an unmentionable part of John McCririck's sub-navel anatomy? To my eternal credit I have never dined upon tripe, cow heel, bull pistle, pig trotters, scrag-end of mutton, eel pie, tench or slow worm, or indeed any other examples of the food of the medieval labouring classes.

I have, however, eaten freshly gassed and baited badger in Lincolnshire, poached Osprey eggs at a charming little Scottish place I know, demoiselles of Koala Bear in Brisbane, and last Sunday lunchtime, an entire Red Deer [shot it myself at Chatsworth, with crossbow].

You forgot to mention breast of swan - I'm sure you've had that too! :thumbsup:

K x

Actually, dear heart, I have. The problem is, one often requires an assistant to finish off the aggressive beast with a spade, and those damned water baillifs are always sniffing around the river bank.

Why hasn't anyone mentioned brown tripe, or to give it its proper Sheffield name 'shag'. All tripe is originally brown, the white tripe has just been bleached. No matter what colour it is its all very tasty but don't try cooking it - that ruins it. Just put loads of salt and vinegar on it.

You can still get it in the Fish Market and you can also get bag and chitterlings from Waterfalls stall, that's even better than tripe. Unfortunately 'roll' seems to have disappeared.

While we're on about old types of food does anyone remember udder, my mother used to boil it and it was really delicious. Does anyone know where I could get some nowadays?

There is a traditional mexican soup made from tripe, called menudo.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2j8g4quvvch0u?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Menudo+Soup&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc03b

I took some once, thinking it was plain mexican beef soup, but stopped eating after a few mouthfuls because it didn't taste "right". It wasn't bad, but after inquiring exactly WHAT was this stuff in the soup, I couldn't finish it.

The same with chorizo.

http://www.answers.com/chorizo

The spanish version of this sausage is ok, but in Mexico, it's made from the salivary glands of the pig. (yuck! gag!)

Suddenly, I'm not very hungry.

:) Sierra

Originally posted by Kristian
Litha,

I would honestly rather lick John McCririck's armpits! :gag:

K x
Aw, mate - leave the other armpit for me. Better than tripe! Don't be greedy :hihi:

Originally posted by roughy101
i used to buy green tripe for the dogs,it stank,but the dogs loved it, the tripe you buy today is bleached and boiled to make it look edible,can anyone say if it has a nutritional value once bleached.
also my mother used to love chicklin and bag,loads of salt and vinegar.

Dogs tripe(stench alone) gross:gag:
Bleached tripe I don't really like:|
However, chicklin and bag with lashings of vinegar, is a culinary delight:thumbsup::clap::love: but I haven't had any for years:(
Anyone know of a supplier not from Royston Vasey:lol:

Wesslin?..........Bulls tadger!...........What's all that about?:nono:

Originally posted by Draggletail
Aw, mate - leave the other armpit for me. Better than tripe! Don't be greedy :hihi:

You could just wear his underpants after him.

My lord, where did that come from? :gag: :D

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
You could just wear his underpants after him.

K x
:gag: On second thoughts, Just gimmee the tripe! Yum Yum :hihi:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Draggletail

Was going to nip and get some lunch but might not bother now...

Originally posted by kathythebean
Was going to nip and get some lunch but might not bother now...
Was it the tripe, or John McCririck's armpits and underpants that did it? :hihi:

Originally posted by Draggletail
Was it the tripe, or John McCririck's armpits and underpants that did it? :hihi:

What about tripe served IN John McCririck's pants? (With lots of salt, pepper and vinegar as everyone else has pointed out :) )

You wouldn't find that on the menu if you stopped for lunch at The Ivy, I can tell you! :D

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
[B]What about tripe served IN John McCririck's pants? (With lots of salt, pepper and vinegar as everyone else has pointed out :) )


Water...water, someone, and a chair, I feel a little faint....:help:

Originally posted by timo
To my eternal credit I have never dined upon tripe, cow heel,...

My mum used to cook cow heel or cow foot regular. It had to be cooked in a pressure cooker for hours cos it was that tough :?, and cooked with butter beans :gag:

I can still smell it now.... gosh it was awful :gag: :gag:, why are mums so cruel!!!!

When I stayed in Normandy France tripe was on the menu every week.

It was served up as Andouille which is a sausage made with tripe and herbs.

It was quite good although we didn't know what the sausage contained initially.

Happy Days

I think I'm sufferring from psychological withdrawl due to lack of tripe-type thoughts!

K x

mmmmm the tripe , the tripe :D

anyway does anyone like roll mop herrings??? (pickeled fish with onions in side)

yum yum yum

Originally posted by Litha
mmmmm the tripe , the tripe :D

anyway does anyone like roll mop herrings??? (pickeled fish with onions in side)

yum yum yum

Can they be served with lots of salt, pepper and vinegar? :hihi:

K x

tiz the best way to eat em Kristian.
my mam used to get em after shopping and eat em on the bus home... we got some right funny looks from the other people on the bus ........ i have no idea why tho :suspect: :hihi:

Originally posted by Litha
tiz the best way to eat em Kristian.
my mam used to get em after shopping and eat em on the bus home... we got some right funny looks from the other people on the bus ........ i have no idea why tho :suspect: :hihi:

You ate them on the bus Litha? Surely not! :gag:

K x

They sell tripe (the bleached variety) at the butcher's on Crookes/end of School Road. I keep looking at it, daring myself (ditto the pig's trotters which they also sell there), but I haven't had the courage so far.

Apparently there are several types of tripe, depending on which of the cow's (four?) stomachs it's made from, but the honeycomb variety is supposed to be the best.

As somebody who has recently abandoned vegetarianism after nearly 30 years, I'm trying to be as un-squeamish and adventurous about meat as I can. I've eaten a few times at "St John's" restaurant in London: they like to use as many parts of the animal as possible and their motto is "nose to tail" (the proprietor has even written a book about it (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747572577/sumptionorg-21)). Once I ordered chitterlings with radishes, a little unsure what chitterlings were but sure that I'd read something about them recently. Turns out they're pig's intestines. The taste of offal was a little too strong for me: I did manage to eat my way through the whole lot (with the help of a friend) but only just. Far better were their salted seagull's eggs, their smoked eel with horseradish, and their rabbit offal.

Originally posted by DanSumption
They sell tripe (the bleached variety) at the butcher's on Crookes/end of School Road. I keep looking at it, daring myself (ditto the pig's trotters which they also sell there), but I haven't had the courage so far.

Apparently there are several types of tripe, depending on which of the cow's (four?) stomachs it's made from, but the honeycomb variety is supposed to be the best.

As somebody who has recently abandoned vegetarianism after nearly 30 years, I'm trying to be as un-squeamish and adventurous about meat as I can. I've eaten a few times at "St John's" restaurant in London: they like to use as many parts of the animal as possible and their motto is "nose to tail" (the proprietor has even written a book about it (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747572577/sumptionorg-21)). Once I ordered chitterlings with radishes, a little unsure what chitterlings were but sure that I'd read something about them recently. Turns out they're pig's intestines. The taste of offal was a little too strong for me: I did manage to eat my way through the whole lot (with the help of a friend) but only just. Far better were their salted seagull's eggs, their smoked eel with horseradish, and their rabbit offal.

Dan, how could you eat things like that as an ex-veggie? I've been veggie 18 years, and last year started to wonder what meat was like, but I could never eat stuff like this!

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
Dan, how could you eat things like that as an ex-veggie?

Well, I decided it was all or nothing. I started eating meat because I was getting worse & worse digestive problems, and they're exacerbated by veggie-type foods (grains, legumes, potatoes) so I needed to find more options of things to eat. Once I started eating meat... well, to me it seems hypocritical to be OK about eating one type of meat but squeamish about another, so I'm trying to eat my way through the animal kingdom :)

Yet to try "long pig" though :D

When young I used to come out of school in Solly St and straight to the Tripe shop at bottom of the hill ( west bar ) and buy a halfpenny (happeth) worth of tripe in newspaper with vinegar. That's if I had a halfpenny-------- which is too small to translate into new pence.----- but no doubt some forum member will. be able to do. . A halfpenny = 2 farthings.

Hazel

Originally posted by Kristian
You ate them on the bus Litha? Surely not! :gag:

K x

yep we did :D twanging the chewy black skin and havin viniger n fish juices dribbling down my chin:hihi:
i was once eating one when the bus come to a sudden stop, it flew out of my hand and landed in the hood of the old lady in front of me:suspect: i didnt dare ask for it back so just left it there :|

Litha

Originally posted by Litha
yep we did :D twanging the chewy black skin and havin viniger n fish juices dribbling down my chin:hihi:
i was once eating one when the bus come to a sudden stop, it flew out of my hand and landed in the hood of the old lady in front of me:suspect: i didnt dare ask for it back so just left it there :|

Litha

Can you imagine the look on her face when she found it? :hihi: :hihi:

K x

heehee i woulda liked to see the look on her face if it had started raining and she had to put her hood up :hihi:

Originally posted by Litha
heehee i woulda liked to see the look on her face if it had started raining and she had to put her hood up :hihi:

Uuurgh Litha, thats horrid. I really shouldn't be reading this while hungover! :gag:

K x

I wouldn't try it - from what I have heard it's an acquired taste!! - give me vegemite anyday ;)

i know this is gunna sound daft but... whats vegimite??
i always used to wonder when ever i heard that song about down under and vegimite sandwich :rolleyes:
Litha

When I first came to Sheffield in 95, at the students' union one of the sandwiches they sold was Dripping Crusts for about 30p. I always felt for anyone who had to get those for skintness reasons. I tended to just skip lunch if I was that skint at any given time.

They stopped selling them after a year or two though.

I've never had tripe, wouldn't want to really :gag:

Originally posted by Litha
i know this is gunna sound daft but... whats vegimite??

Vegemite is Marmite only different. More Australian.

It's yeast Extract - like marmite - just milder - it was first made in Australia, you can get it at Sainsbury's :D

Guys, I don't like Marmite, but it's not got the same comedy value as tripe has! You can't say things like "Mmmmm. Marmite on toast! With lots of salt, vinegar and pepper!" It just sounds wrong!

K x

LOL, I see your point :D :D :D

it dunt sound wrong to me ( apart from the fact i dont like marmite) but salt . pepper and vinegar go on everything dont they? well i have em on pasta, fried egg sarnies, rice stuffs, chips n gravy n loadsa other stuff. :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Litha
it dunt sound wrong to me ( apart from the fact i dont like marmite) but salt . pepper and vinegar go on everything dont they? well i have em on pasta, fried egg sarnies, rice stuffs, chips n gravy n loadsa other stuff. :thumbsup:

Vinegar on rice? Mind you, I should talk. I love salt and black pepper on butterred toast, tabasco on water biscuits, and french mustard on tuna! :thumbsup:

K x

tabasco on water busuits sounds nice :D

Originally posted by Moonfire
tabasco on water busuits sounds nice :D

I can thoroughly recommend them! It's one of my many self-created slimming foods! Yum!

K x

peanut butter with tabasco on toast is nice too :)

dont think i have ever seen tripe before...?

neither have I - I assume it's sold in butchers

Originally posted by Moonfire
neither have I - I assume it's sold in butchers

Come on Litha! Where can we get our tripe? :D

K x

so is tripe meat then??

(apologies if anyone has already said what it is in the thread... i havent read it thoroughly)

Originally posted by Draggletail
It is the 'stomach lining' of a sheep :gag:
People who like this stuff would probably remember eating 'pigs trotters' (feet) like my grandad did. :gag:

This puts meat eating into perspective -- if meat was not so 'sanitised' ie added to burgers, made unrecognisable from It's origin, possibly most people probably would not eat it.

For me, there is no difference between:
A Big Mac
A 'Juicy Steak'
Tripe
A sheep's eye (Arabic delicacy) (?)
or a pigs testicle (other 'delicacy, origin forgotten)

I haven't eaten meat since '79. :rant: :rant:
Rant over ;)

From page one

K x

Originally posted by SatanInHeels
so is tripe meat then??

Yup. To be precise, it is the stomach lining of a cow.
http://www.soupsong.com/ftripe.html

Anyone had tripe for Sunday Lunch? :D

Apologies for shameless 'bump', but I'm suffering from 'Tripe Withdrawl'!

K x

Never tried tripe. Have tried pigs trotters. But I have been to a Chinese resteraunt in Sheffield one Sunday lunch-time (when it was not advertised as open, but a Chinese friend in-the-know took a number of us along with him) and we ate one course of -stewed chicken feet. Well, to be precise, 4 out of 10 of us took up the challenge. You pop one in your mouth, suck like crazy, and then spit out the numerous little bones into a dish, and swallow the slimey stuff left in your mouth. Utterly tasteless, but very messy.

Originally posted by Kristian
Come on Litha! Where can we get our tripe? :D

K x

i have seen it on some of the stalls in the market.. but i used to have mine while i lived in rotherham a little shop on welgate im not sure if its there now tho, the stuff sold in the market here doesnt look nice tho its not that honeycomb tripe :mad:

Originally posted by redrobbo
Never tried tripe. Have tried pigs trotters. But I have been to a Chinese resteraunt in Sheffield one Sunday lunch-time (when it was not advertised as open, but a Chinese friend in-the-know took a number of us along with him) and we ate one course of -stewed chicken feet. Well, to be precise, 4 out of 10 of us took up the challenge. You pop one in your mouth, suck like crazy, and then spit out the numerous little bones into a dish, and swallow the slimey stuff left in your mouth. Utterly tasteless, but very messy.

i totally refuse to even think about *stewed chicken feet*
YUK YUK YUK :gag:

Originally posted by Litha
i totally refuse to even think about *stewed chicken feet*
YUK YUK YUK :gag:

Apologies for going off topic, but this reminds me of a tale my friend Liz told me about going to a wedding of a Chinese friend of hers.

Apparrently, there were about 20 small courses to the sit-down meal; waiters and waitresses brought the food around, and each course was served on the same plate as the last. Liz is not a faddy eater, but anxiously kept asking her husband (Ian) what each thing was that was placed before her. About half way through, a roud batterred thing about the size of a cricket ball was placed in front of her. Ian confirmed it was chicken. Liz noticed that there was a small 'handle' sticking out of the batter for you to hold while you ate it. She told Ian that she thought this was a good idea, but was horrified when Ian replied 'that's it's beak Liz' :gag: :gag: It was a batterred whole baby chicken! :gag:

K x

And it reminds me of when I was at school, my friend used to get chickens feet from his local butcher. He would bring them into school and together we would chase girls around the playground with them. Until they got confiscated.

Originally posted by Litha
i have seen it on some of the stalls in the market.. but i used to have mine while i lived in rotherham a little shop on welgate im not sure if its there now tho, the stuff sold in the market here doesnt look nice tho its not that honeycomb tripe :mad:

That shop in Wellgate closed down, thank god, I had to walk past it every day on the way to work. The window display of various unidentifiable internal organs on plates decorated with a bit of plastic parsley never failed to turn my stomach.

My dad used to buy tripe from the shop on Wellgate for years! We get it from Morrisons now. Yes you can still get it.

Cut into chunks and pickle in vinegar overnight then eat with lots of fresh bread and butter. Heaven!

I'll try anything once.

thankyou for that Jennie, i never realised they sold it in morrisons i shall have to have a look next time i go :D

Litha

my dogs love it:)

Originally posted by Litha
thankyou for that Jennie, i never realised they sold it in morrisons i shall have to have a look next time i go :D

Litha

I wondered when you'd spot this topic rising from the ashes; good old Litha! :D

K x

but its such a scrummy topic i just couldnt let it die a cold tripey unvingered death could i Kristian :heyhey:

Litha

Through no fault of my own I once ended up at a gathering of 'old dears' (ladies and chaps). One bloke, with bizarrely configured facial hair, listed all the strange things people ate during the second world war - people in High Green, I mean. Among the creatures listed were 'pigeon' (understandable), 'squirrel' and 'crow'. Mind you, in the vair old days, people used to cook one animal inside another, so you started off with a Blue Whale, then stuffed that with an elephant etc until you ended up with a shrew stuffed inside a guinea-pig or something, and an ant inside the shrew...until eventually, using an electron microscope you had an amoeba in the middle. The incredible thing is, when sliced by a professional, everyone at the party got a slice containing a bit of the Blue Whale, elephant etc...guinea pig, shrew, ant and amoeba. Now, I don't know about tripe, but I fancy a slice of that - a veritable 'slice of life'! Has anyone made it?

Originally posted by kirky
my dogs love it:)
That sums it up exactly - dog nosh :D

Originally posted by Litha
but its such a scrummy topic i just couldnt let it die a cold tripey unvingered death could i Kristian :heyhey:

Litha

Litha! :rant: :rant: How could you? I feel betrayed! You wanna know why? :| You forgot to mention salt and pepper too! :clap: :hihi: :hihi:

K x

Originally posted by LordSnooty
Through no fault of my own I once ended up at a gathering of 'old dears' (ladies and chaps). One bloke, with bizarrely configured facial hair, listed all the strange things people ate during the second world war - people in High Green, I mean. Among the creatures listed were 'pigeon' (understandable), 'squirrel' and 'crow'. Mind you, in the vair old days, people used to cook one animal inside another, so you started off with a Blue Whale, then stuffed that with an elephant etc until you ended up with a shrew stuffed inside a guinea-pig or something, and an ant inside the shrew...until eventually, using an electron microscope you had an amoeba in the middle. The incredible thing is, when sliced by a professional, everyone at the party got a slice containing a bit of the Blue Whale, elephant etc...guinea pig, shrew, ant and amoeba. Now, I don't know about tripe, but I fancy a slice of that - a veritable 'slice of life'! Has anyone made it?

Not wanting to wind anyone up (for once!), but I actually did hear something about this near Xmas. Clearly whales, elephants and amobas weren't involved ( that would be skillful carving; slicing an amoeba!), but there was something on the news about a turkey, stuffed with a goose, stuffed with a chicken (all boned and filletted). Or, something similar at any rate, They were very expensive IIRC.

Love and tripe,

K x

Kristian why are you up peddling your tripe at this hour! Get to bed, young man!

Originally posted by kathythebean
Kristian why are you up peddling your tripe at this hour! Get to bed, young man!

Who do you think you are calling a tripe-peddlar? :rant: :hihi:

K x

:| my mum used to eat lambs trotters when she was pregnant, but she still does sometimes, they look horrible

As children we were brought up on tripe. We don't eat it now but we talk plenty of tripe as a result!

Originally posted by Kristian
Litha! :rant: :rant: How could you? I feel betrayed! You wanna know why? :| You forgot to mention salt and pepper too! :clap: :hihi: :hihi:

K x

Awww Kristian pleeezee forgive me i was gettin harrassed by customers at the time of typing and missed the salt n pepper out.... how i could do this is way beyond me now.

just so folks that joined half way thru these posts know
*** you cannot eat tripe without it been totally and utterly drowned in vinegar and salt & pepper.. its a sin its in the commandments ( so im told) YOU JUST CANT ***

Litha ( sorry britches) :|

Apology accepted Litha; your services to tripe in the past cannot go unnoticed!

its a sin its in the commandments

Should that be 'sin in the condiments' :D

K x

Originally posted by komal
:| my mum used to eat lambs trotters when she was pregnant, but she still does sometimes, they look horrible

Lamb's trotters, I have only hear of pigs trotters, am I missing something?

Although the lambs that K chases have to be pretty nimble on their trotters :P

Originally posted by Kristian
Apology accepted Litha; your services to tripe in the past cannot go unnoticed!



Should that be 'sin in the condiments' :D

K x

fewwwww im so pleased to have had my apology acceped :clap:

amd how on earth did ya come up with one like that at this time in the morning???? :hihi:

Originally posted by Litha

amd how on earth did ya come up with one like that at this time in the morning???? :hihi:

Not sure; just think of me as a walking miracle! ;)

K x

im sooooo hungry :(
im on a diet and decided to come back to this thread to torture myself :help: :help:

Originally posted by Litha
im sooooo hungry :(
im on a diet and decided to come back to this thread to torture myself :help: :help:

Surely tripe's not fattenning Litha? :confused:

well me mams wrote me a list of all the stuff i can have and rules of the new switch weight watchers and i cant find tripe on the list :confused: :confused:
so i dont know if i can have it or not :(

My dad used to eat it cold with salt vinegar and pepper. He persuaded me to try some when I was a kid. It's vile!

Originally posted by WintersMist

FACT: Quality tripe can increase your libedo four fold.


Can anyone confirm this as fact? :o

K x

Whilst I can eat most things with chocolate on - I think you have found one of the things that I would not even look at. However - I have no idea what is added to pies and such to fill them out so I could be eating it without knowing.

Yeeeeeeeuck! What next? Chickling and Bad?

Dragon

Originally posted by Dragon


Yeeeeeeeuck! What next? Chickling and Bad?

Dragon

I think that should be 'chicklin and bag', - but what was in the bag I don't want to know...it will be some unspeakable bit of a pig's anatomy :gag:

Love tripe. The honeycombe type. My Mum used to make smething called "BLIND ASH" Tripe, cut into squares, sliced onions,(Lots of em) Potatoes, cubed, lots of fresh Parsley,and all simmered slowly in lots of milk. Delicious !!!!!! We had no money in them days !It was a cheap and filling meal.

Pattricia ,

You're making me feel hungry now !

Also whilst it's simmering , some people would put in to it , a pig's trotter , just to add flavouring.
Beautiful dish in Winter . In Jersey , years ago , they used to sell cans of tripe in wine [from France ] and it was regarded as a luxury and I believe the French eat it cooked , too , pretty much like we do.
Also , it's quite popular in Turkey , where it 's called Iskember [ pronounced , "Ishkember "] , so if you ever go there for a holiday , they sell a lot of , "Ishkember " soup . Their tripe is much tougher than ours , though and so takes much longer than ours to tenderise.Traditionally , it's regarded as a cure for a hangover in Turkey !
[ Incidentally , if you do order it , don't get mixed up with , "Ishkender" which is something entirely different but beautiful , too ]

Originally posted by Fareast
Pattricia ,

You're making me feel hungry now !

Also whilst it's simmering , some people would put in to it , a pig's trotter , just to add flavouring.
Beautiful dish in Winter . In Jersey , years ago , they used to sell cans of tripe in wine [from France ] and it was regarded as a luxury and I believe the French eat it cooked , too , pretty much like we do.
Also , it's quite popular in Turkey , where it 's called Iskember [ pronounced , "Ishkember "] , so if you ever go there for a holiday , they sell a lot of , "Ishkember " soup . Their tripe is much tougher than ours , though and so takes much longer than ours to tenderise.Traditionally , it's regarded as a cure for a hangover in Turkey !
[ Incidentally , if you do order it , don't get mixed up with , "Ishkender" which is something entirely different but beautiful , too ]

If it's a soup, how can you put lots of salt, pepper and vinegar on it?!? :confused:

K x

I'll tell you what is a food from the past dripping :gag: my uncle always tries to get me to have some but i'll never touch the stuff

Thought I'd replied to this thread last night :loopy: but had obviously had one too many!

Anyway, my old aunt used to give us tripe and elder on a Friday, she bought it from Barnsley market.

Lots of vinegar and pepper - so you couldn't taste it I presume now!

Can't remember it tasting of anything much really. The tripe is a white, strange substance. The elder was more of a darker yellowy/brown colour. Never heard of Elder since I was a kid and don't know if it's still available? Not that i'd try it these days though.

Dad sometimes used to cook lambs hearts

:gag:

when I refused to eat it I was made to sit at the table until I did (that's when having a dog as a kid came in very useful)!

Dripping sarnies, with plenty of salt - used to love em. You can still get em in some of the sarnie shops in Sheffield.

Mind you, when I was a kid Chicken was a rare delicacy!

i eat 1/2lb of tripe every week with salad every thursday for dinner!---always put plenty of vinegar and pepper on and have it with salad.--its real good especially the honeycombe type!!:)