Mince Pies

They're usually BBQ'd and crunchy, like pork rinds (or pork scratchings as wiki tells me they're called in the UK):Here's some at the top left: They actually taste like pork rinds too. Probably menudo (tripe soup).Or goat curry.I had an ostrich burger once.Oh wait...Tongue tacos.... actually really tender.Or brain sandwiches.

Pork scratchings are deep fried crunchy bits of pork fat usually sold in pubs like crisps (or is that "chips in american"?). Personally I can't stand them. But I cannot see anything that resembles them in your pic. Cool. Never heard of it. Where was that. That is pretty common where I live. I saw that last time I was at Glastonbury festival but never got round to trying it. Would you reccommend it? Tongue sandwich sounds like some sort of sexual fantasy involving lesbians. But now I am letting your imagination run away with me..... Is that brawn on toast? Whose brain?

I have no frikkin idea. It is the sort of thing my gran, or even dad, might have mentioned as a feature of their youth. But not something I am familiar with at all. A bit like Bread and DrippingPersonally I would rather have the poblano peppers. Well home-made-pretty-much-anything is usually best. Having looked up spotted dick on wiki I can honestly say I have never eaten it and have no great desire to do so. Well as long as Sweeney soaks the body parts until they are booze laden that is fine.

Think of the thing in the back covered in BBQ as one big thick chip, or crisp. Instead of just a 'bit' its the whole side of the face of the pig as one piece. At a "real" mexican restauant in el barrio...aka Fairmont City, Illinois:

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Fairmont City holds the highest percentage of Hispanics in the entire St Louis Metropolitan area, with 55% of the population of Hispanic descent.

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and that 55% is those accounted for. There's tons of illegals there too.There's two "real" mexican restaurants there (by real I mean owned and ran by mexicans that can't speak english [ordering your meal requires a lot of pointing to the pictures of the food they've gratiously put up on the wall]). Its damn authentic though. Some of the shit they have in there even grosses me out. There's a grocery store in the front that sells mexican imports... the 'meat' section has all kinds of crazy body parts laying aroung Sure, I have no reason not to. Its not particularly great, but there's nothing wrong with it. It is lean and like combo of pork and poultry, or something like that. In that case, I'd prefer a tougue hotdog bun I don't know what brawn on toast means. It was some poor cows brain, though, cooked and served on a hamburger bun.

Hi CS,Brawn = head cheese. Nice with a bit of mustard and some pickles.Mutate and Survive

Granny, I'm liking you more every day. First squirrel, now head cheese...a woman after my own heart. Any German blood in you?I got turned on to head cheese as a youngster--my Grandpa would bring it out as an afternoon snack, sliced thin and dipped in crocks of malt vinegar. Tart, tasty goodness, and the more gelatin, the better. We'd generally wind up discussing (loudly) where each visible, distinct morsel originated. This also served to disgust my sisters, which could be argued was my modus operandi.Have a nice day.

Granny is a man

Hey CS.Pork scratchings sound like "cracklins", which are the left over bits from the rendering of a big hunk of pork lard. Last year my wife and I bought half of a grass-fed hog, and along with hocks, feet, tongue, liver etc etc... came a big "hunk" of unprocessed lard. Put it in the crockpot for the better part of a day, and you get not only a house that smells of bacon for a few days, but nice, white lard suitable for everything from pie crusts to country-fried chicken. And also cracklins, which are normally eaten salted and peppered. I ate a lot of them. Too many. So many, in fact, that it'll be many moons before I touch another cracklin'. But I digress...Not sure if my aversion would prohibit me from eating part of a pig face. Something tells me it would. Have a nice day.

The snoot is just like cracklins, only one big ol' piece instead of a bunch of little ones, and covered in BBQ sauce... and on bread.It delicious if you like cracklins. I'm pretty sure its the skin, not just the lard.

Erm, well. I'm sure he's a handsome man. Why, if I were a woman or oriented sexually otherwise, he may still well be a man after, er, my own heart... Ahem.Hey there, Granny, howdya like to go hunt some squirrel or play a little rugby or else talk varmint loads or something?I gotta go hit on some random woman. Have a good one. Edited by Apothecus, : Added quote box

My god how forum handles can deceive........

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A group of us just bought a friend who was retiring a 21 year glenvilet. Once a lifetime, someone should splurge

He's from the UK... He prolly looks like this: Just kidding. No offense Granny.

Hey where did you get that photo of me from?

I would have told you, but you ended your sentence in a preposition...