Pigs Trotters

My wife has always expressed a liking for these. Trouble is that locally they are difficult to get hold of here. The supermarkets don't stock them and even the butchers here don't have them as they seem to pass them on to the hotel and restaurant trade.

So today I was quite surprised to find myself being gifted a pack of 4 for £1-50 by a local farming guy that we know. So after being here in Britain a year, my wife will get to cook herself a wee treat, sinigang etc etc.

Myself, I think I will politely decline.

Just need to find somewhere that sells chickens feet and intestines, now.

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Well done.

Crubeen's to you Mate. I have never had them either.
Not had the chicken feet but I do like the gizzard, heart and liver.
I had some quare stuff in China and had to eat it "politely" BUT Balut IS OUT.

Tom

I see. Crubeens. I just googled that. Sort of Iris pub food....

My grandmother cooked these and they were terrific but urban people seem too snooty to eat them or too lazy to cook them. They were a great British dish at one time.

Working for a Chinese outfit I have eaten plenty of chicken's feet, deep fried scorpions, etc..

There is a chap in the port of Felixstowe who persuaded the late Bernard Matthews, the Norfolk turkey king, to pay him to take away the feet from his processing plants... he has been shipping two forty foot refrigerated containers a week to China for many years now and has amassed a tidy fortune in the process...

O.M.G. How can you?

Probably the same way Cambodians eat fied spiders But pigs' trotters are wonderful.

When your wife finds out that she can buy an incubator, and can buy fertile duck eggs cheaply at the farmer's market, that is when the fun will really start..

Ha. She doesn't like Balut. Thank god. I think she likes chicken's feet though, or at least her mom does.

boiled with salt, peppercorns, bayleaves. Traditional English grub.

I had them at at an oktoberfest in adelaide a couple of years ago, with sauerkraut, magnificent as I remember.. , although I must admit my memory of that day is a little hazy...

Actually, what happened was that when I got them home to the wife, she found she couldn't chop them up ( we don't have a buthcers chopper) so they ended up in the bin LOL.

I noticed was that there was no meat on them.

No need to chop. Cook whole. They're nice and gelatinous.