My most horrible food mistake so far...

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Our school milk came in tiny bottles and was delivered fresh every day. Loved it.
I enjoy cold milk too. I was raised on unpasteurised milk from a local TB tested dairy herd.
Sadly our 1/3 bottles of pasteurised milk were delivered to school each morning, not chilled, and to make it worse the primary school teachers thought even cool milk was too much for the poor darlings and lined it up on top of the classroom radiators for 2 hours before we had to drink it.
Disgusting !
 
Yes - you can also get 1/3 pint glasses as well, sometimes sold as ale tasting glasses.

One of my fondest childhood memories is my grandfather giving me small glasses of cold milk from his ice encrusted gas fridge when I was about 4. I still drink cold milk even though it sometimes gives me a bit of gyp.
 
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:eek:Pig rectum indeed. Well they do say with a pig you can eat everything except the squeak.

Never tried chicken feet and did wonder how they used them other than as a means of jellifying stock. No different to pigs trotters really I suppose. When we get chicken from our butcher I usually ask for extra carcasses and you often get feet and heads in the bag. I've tried cooking the combs, but the feet re washed and go in the stock pot.
 
Ordering Chicken feet in a restaurant in Beijing was a mistake - a bowl of broth with green and brown feet floating in it. Not very appetising. But - the duck tongues we also ordered were OK if a bit of a faff. You had to scrape the meat off the cartalege with you teeth but it did taste OK.
 
Dislikes -
Mushrooms, in fact all fungi, with the exception of grated black truffle.
Shellfish. ALL shellfish
Most fish types, apart from maybe haddock or cod as in fish&chips
99.9999% of vegetables, potatoes being the only exception
Offal, the clue is in the name - it's awful.

As another ex-butcher i love meat, Pork, Lamb, Beef and maybe chicken, as long as the chicken isn't on the bone.
 
My wife loves pickled walnuts.
Regular variety are bad enough to my mind, but pickled, ugh.
That reminds me of the walnut liqueur my father brought back from Czechoslovakia. Absolutely foul. It went to five parties and came back until a very drunk scowser at the sixth took a swig, declared it to be not too bad and downed the bottle.
 
I think it was Bear Grylls in one of his shows visited a Bedouin camp.
They had slaughtered a goat for a feast in his honour, so there they all are sitting around and the headman shows him the raw goats testicles.
The interpreter explains these are considered a great delicacy.
So, not wishing to cause offence, Bear pops one in his mouth and starts chewing away. Much hilarity amongst assembled Bedouin. When he eventually manages to get it down he asks the interpreter what they are all laughing at.
"Oh, just that they usually cook them first!"
 
I saw a rather large prop get a large bucket and have it passed along the beer taps, half a pint of each, along the bottle shelf, one of each (inc. fruit juices, babycham etc.). There was just enough room in the bucket to go along the optics and have one of each. He sat on a stool at the bar and drank the whole bucket pint by pint.
Not quite as revolting as people throwing up in a pint glass and passing it to someone else for a down in one.
I saw a beer race - eight pints each in under two minutes. The results were projectile.
 
I've been a vegetarian since about 1984 - my mother's doing initially but eventually it's because I just don't like meat now. I actually believe in mixed farming, if farm we must.

Anyway, being vegan is the big trendy thing with certain celebrities doing it, manufacturers of convenience foods really jumped on the bandwagon to sell stuff to this newly expanding customer base - not so many years ago vegans were very under-catered for in this arena because they were a fringe group and generally regarded as a bit mad.

What really gets my goat is that people are becoming vegan and simply buying meat-substitutes as though it's completely natural, they .don't have to make the effort that my vegan friends did long ago. They are buying into something artificial in the name of being more eco friendly.

So it's great that there are more meat -free convenience options for me, but some of these really are supposed to have some cheese in them and not it's fairly terrible substitute.

Also, I always worry about the consequences when big companies muscle in on this sort of thing. What nasty tricks are they up to to put on this "ethical" front? Not to mention it's yet another pressure (albeit a small one) to increase arable farming, which is not good.
The world or at least some of does seem to have gone a little mad on these meat free alternatives and of course the money aspect from greedy supermarkets has a big part to play in this . You make a good point regarding vegans not being fully catered for years ago so I suppose it’s a case of flooding the shops with everything that vegans can now eat because it’s meat free . As for the nasty tricks - didn’t Linda McCartney sell vegan meat free pies that actually contained meat .. thanks for you views btw..👍
 
They don't really, they're just something they put the crazy hot chilli sauce on for you to slurp off :)
Chicken feet have been eaten by many West Indian families and I believe Asian families for years . Along with tripe , cow foot and oxtail to name but a few .. I regularly eat oxtail but tripe , cow foot and chicken feet etc I’ll give them a very wide birth .
 
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