Afval (offal), who eats it?

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Ockie said:
I dont care if it is boiled, fried or slow coocked in the queens ass! it is siff man! SIFF I tell you! Blood in a saugage! SIFFFFF!!!!!!! You cant compare biltong to sucking on a blood filled sauage!
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So you've tasted it? BTW, you suck on blood-filled sausage all the time, don't you?
 
DJ... said:
So you've tasted it? BTW, you suck on blood-filled sausage all the time, don't you?
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The blood filled sausages I suck on has got a pulse! There is a difference! lol. No ...have not tasted it and dont plan to. Just like a vagina I do not need to taste it to know it is disgusting and evil! :p
 
When asked if he eats offal my dad always used to respond with 'nee, ons het geld vir vleis.'

Heh, ironic that offal is apparently so expensive now.
 
Graal said:
Only thing there I eat is boerewors. :p

No livers or steak and kidney pies.
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So you do eat offal then. Don't be too quick to write it all off. Some of it isn't that great, like the stomach which I have never really enjoyed cooked in various ways, but others like a good liver pate`, crumbed brains, beef cheeks, tongue, sausages made with intestines, trotters etc - they're really good and for the most part if you weren't told what they were, most people would thoroughly enjoy them.

People's immediate judgement of certain foods is quite fascinating and is brought about entirely by perception, indoctrination and society. Like Ockie's aversion to blood sausage when in fact he's probably never tasted it - to many Brits it is completely normal, like biltong is to us. Many of them cringe at the thought of eating biltong though.

Personally I'll at least try something once to determine if I like it or not. At least that way I know and don't have to make assumptions about it...
 
Yip,

Chicken livers - yummy
Skilpadjies - yummy
Boerewors - yummy
 
Ockie said:
The blood filled sausages I suck on has got a pulse! There is a difference! lol. No ...have not tasted it and dont plan to. Just like a vagina I do not need to taste it to know it is disgusting and evil! :p
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Well then you can't say "they're siff". to you, the thought of it is horrible (why, I cannot fathom), but it tastes really good. It tastes nothing like that cut on your finger you once tasted as a kid and practically every culture in the world has some variation of it, because it is delicious.

BTW, if you ever travel to the Caribbean, don't order the rice pudding (if you still have this aversion). It isn't what you think it is...:D
 
DJ... said:
Well then you can't say "they're siff". to you, the thought of it is horrible (why, I cannot fathom), but it tastes really good. It tastes nothing like that cut on your finger you once tasted as a kid and practically every culture in the world has some variation of it, because it is delicious.

BTW, if you ever travel to the Caribbean, don't order the rice pudding (if you still have this aversion). It isn't what you think it is...:D
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lol. I can just imagine what it is then. No plan to go to the Caribbean anyway. Humidity and sun would be total murder on my hair!

I took a leap of faith once...no actually twice. My mom and dad always used to eat snails as a appetiser when we went out as a family. They would always leave the garlic sauce and slices of bread for me and I would munch that once they ate the bugs. Once my dad told me to try a snail...I did and nearly barfed all over him. Second time my sister dared me to eat a olive. Again...she barely came away from it without getting barfed on.

Since then...NEVER AGAIN.

The only time I had a good experience with tasting something that I never EVER wanted to was when me and my ex went and had lunch @ this little place in Vredendal while visiting my mom. He ordered Mussels in a creamy garlic sause. I asked him if he will leave me some of the sauce so I can munch it with bread...and he said only if I will eat one of his Mussles. I could not believe it...he absolutely refused to leave me the fckign sauce unless I ate a Mussel. Normally I would have told him to piss off...but oh my god..if you smelled this sauce you would understand why I was desperate for it. Anyway...he gave me one and I munched it...and it was actually very nice. I had one more of my own free will....and it was nice..but could then feel my tummy starting to squirm and decided to stop on a high note.

Oh and that creamy garlic sauce with bread afterwards WAS HEAVEN!!! lol
 
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The_Librarian said:
What is it then?
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Rice, onions, peppers, spices, herbs....oh, and cooked in blood and served with crispy bread. I reckon it's probably delicious if you can get over the gremlins in your head that put you off. Thing is eating blood is no different to eating red meat (in concept, because red meat is drained of blood before we eat it and contains only trace amounts of blood - the red liquid is protein and water). There is no issue eating blood in my opinion...
 
DJ... said:
So you do eat offal then. Don't be too quick to write it all off. Some of it isn't that great, like the stomach which I have never really enjoyed cooked in various ways, but others like a good liver pate`, crumbed brains, beef cheeks, tongue, sausages made with intestines, trotters etc - they're really good and for the most part if you weren't told what they were, most people would thoroughly enjoy them.

People's immediate judgement of certain foods is quite fascinating and is brought about entirely by perception, indoctrination and society. Like Ockie's aversion to blood sausage when in fact he's probably never tasted it - to many Brits it is completely normal, like biltong is to us. Many of them cringe at the thought of eating biltong though.

Personally I'll at least try something once to determine if I like it or not. At least that way I know and don't have to make assumptions about it...
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Eh, I get queasy very easily. As in, very, very easily. I don't even eat just any boerewors. If there are large chunks of fat in the boerewors, I get nauseous.

Doesn't take a lot to make me feel sick, though. If I see a child with a snot nose, I won't be able to eat for a while afterwards.
 
My gran used to make offal with curry, spices and lots of potatoes. It was really, really good. Memorably good even.

Since she passed away I've (with huge excitement) ordered it a few times at restaurants, hoping to taste some of what I have stored away in my memory. Sadly I have to say that none have came close so far, and some I even have to classify under the most foul tasting food I've ever been served.
 
Skaapkop (not the brains, wife eats that like it is the best food ever), tripe & trotters, varkkop, livers, kidneys. Sometimes a fish eye or two.
When I get the time I make delicious brawn with varkkop & trotters and scraps of pork meat.
 
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