Eat, the beloved country

[Woestynryer]

Niquie - I'm sure they taste great.I'll take your word for it ;-)

My personal favourite is 'smoked' snoek.Man! Great stuff.

My parents loved 'Afval',or what the Scots call 'Haggis'.

Taste and smell great but personally being spoilt,not something I love.

The reason why it became a dish in South Africa was in the older days by poor Afrikaners or 'boers'.They wasted nothing.Even till this day even poor Africans do not waste food.Even something that might sound grose to western standards are eaten.Westerners sometimes take a lot for granted.

I saw this ad about 'Jamie Oliver' asking the butcher what the sausages are made of and she replies...'shoulder,neck.....and definately 'NO Rubbish' bits......'

That 'Rubbish bits' is a bit of a downer, because what I'm concerned,No food is rubbish.

There's people in Africa that would kill for 'Rubbish bits.'Maybe I'm being too analytical of what she's describing.

Anyway,Most Westerners are too spoiled,including me and taking many things for granted.

Ok,sorry for going off the subject.Sometimes going a bit too deep.

[konsalik]

Have you ever tried chicken heads and legs??

[Mark_Bloomfield]

...they are a delicacy in Asian cooking, and in Mexican cooking as well. And if the tendon is still in the feet, you can pull on it and make the detatched members "walk" across the cutting board. No chicken, just the feet taking stroll in your kitchen. Imagine what the kids would say....

But most Americans would pass out should a plate of feetzies be placed in front of them.

Chicken heads? There again, I think it's an Asian delicacy. Never had the feet, never had the head, never miss not having the opportunity.

Any see the movie "Shirley Valentine?" If you did, remember the scene in a restaurant in Greece where a table full of stuffy, routine-ridden English tourists were musing over the menu and complaining that it didn't offer chips and eggs? And one asks what "calamari" is?

Upon being told it was squid, she slipped under the table in a dead faint.

I just love that movie!

[liza81]

Chicken feet ...ugh! We used to have this absolutely ancient black garderner. He'd bring a bag of chicken feet with him and ask me to cook it while he tended the beds. He told me to just chuck the whole lot into a pot of water with a bit of salt.
The smell of stewing chicken feet will sicken me for the rest of my life.

Interestingly, Niquie, I've seen jars of pickled pig's feet in the HEB over here. Is that something you'd eat?

[konsalik]

Come on, cleaned and descently prepared chicken feet and heads is a delicacy.

And Niquie, it is widely eaten in South Africa.

I believe that if you want to understand someone else's culture you need to involve yourself in it. That goes for the food too.

[Moonwalker]

The thought of eating Chicken feet,sheeps head and eyes absolutally horrifies me,...I know people who do,
but everyone to their own taste!!

Being a lover of true SA food, we are very fortunate to have an authentic SA butcher in the town that I live in here in the UK, he makes super boerewors and biltong, but he cannot beat my bobotie, koeksisters, sosaties or pickled fish.........

Preparing these dishes for friends seem to keep me on an even plain with home, and the English love them!!!!!

[liza81]

I'm with moonwalker on this one.
I'm not that much of a meat fan to begin with, so eating all the odds and ends that are left of the cow/sheep/chicken after you've cut off the good bits does not seem very attractive to me at all! I'm just not that desperate. (and consider myself very fotunate indeed!)