Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:05 pm  

Sandra The Terrorist wrote:

Ha! Very good, no doubt a fine and noble tome.

I remember as a kid and playing against North West Counties at some god forsaken place in Sintellins, after they had absolutely annihilated us were were served some sort of vague stew with a piece of edible card board, the Lancashire lads were lapping it up, it was very strange and I have no idea what it was.

Cottom's Hot Pot.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:18 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

Not that any of their diet maybe stored in their flesh !

I would prefer an organ that has filtered mickey than flesh which is probably full of heavy metals pcbs etc etc

I'll ponder that while I'm sorting out the five bass and one English Channel squid (over 2' in length), that I caught today.

Meanwhile you can ponder the physiology of animals, especially which parts have the greatest concentration of toxins.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:23 pm  

Mystic Yed wrote:

Forgetting that cooking kills the bacteria.

Most cooking will not kill toxins and certainly won't do anything to minimise the effects of pollution, that's what organs like liver & kidneys do

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:09 pm  

What sort of toxins you expecting to pick up from a hill breed Welsh sheep?

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:46 pm  

And if you o fancy a bit of offal, here are a couple of recipes.

And if you o fancy a bit of offal, here are a couple of recipes.

[Durham Giant]

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:44 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

I'll ponder that while I'm sorting out the five bass and one English Channel squid (over 2' in length), that I caught today.

Meanwhile you can ponder the physiology of animals, especially which parts have the greatest concentration of toxins.

Yet it was you who started the posts about Kidneys filtering urine and why you would not eat them?

I enjoyed my wild venison today but i do like some nice sea bass

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:40 am  

Mystic Yed wrote:

What sort of toxins you expecting to pick up from a hill breed Welsh sheep?

Yes because the only offal ever sold comes fron hill-bred Welsh sheep

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:54 am  

Durham Giant wrote:

Yet it was you who started the posts about Kidneys filtering urine and why you would not eat them?

I enjoyed my wild venison today but i do like some nice sea bass

Long before the CJD or BSE problems surfaced, I made a conscious decision to eliminate offal from my diet. I wasn't impressed with the amount of chemicals and pharmaceuticals that were being used in rearing animals for consumption and figured that such additives would likely concentrate in vital organs. As for kidneys, I'd never eaten them knowingly, if kidneys are being cooked, all I can smell is urine.

As for fish, I tend mostly to eat only what I've caught myself, especially in the case of cod. I don't eat much tuna (high mercury levels) and never knowingly eat farmed salmon (intensively farmed and packed with antibiotucs and other chemicals). Some fish and seafood can contain undesirable elements but they are naturally ocurring and not been deliberately introduced to increase yield or profit

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:36 am  

World of Redboy wrote:

... A fishcake is the potato and fish mixed together and deep fried

That is also a fishcake, granted.
However, what you call a fish scallop is nonetheless (correctly, round here) called a fishcake.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:16 am  

advocatus diaboli wrote:

Black peas. Always had them on Bonfire Night and they sold them from stalls when the wakes came to Leigh.

I may have mentioned this before but hey-ho ... There used to be a corner shop at Hollingworth Lake (Littleborough area) that had an A-board outside proclaiming "Last black peas before M62".