Food again

IanA · Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:13 pm

There have been loads of posts about food that we ate when times were hard but I have a question. When growing up in the '50s in Keats Street, I remember eating pig's belly (NOT belly pork!). It was grey, wrinkled and rubbery. You ate it cold, sprinkled with vinegar and it was quite good. I've never seen this mentioned before. Was it just an hallucination brought on by a surfeit of scouse or does anyone else remember this delicacy?

Ian

Joycen60 · Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:14 pm

Are you thinking of Tripe?

IanA · Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:32 pm

Abso-bloomin-lutely not!!

Invicta · Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:34 pm

Yes I remember it Ian. Can't say I would relish it again. K

henry · Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:52 pm

Still sell it in the butchers in the strand and a lot of people still buy it

Eddy Lloyd · Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:38 pm

Loved it with vinegar and pepper

IanA · Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:12 pm

So I wasn't making it up!

Nice to know it's still going and I think I would definitely try it again. Kids in those days would eat anything they were given - "If you don't eat it now you'll get it cold tomorrow for your breakfast".

lily8 · Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:42 pm

I was thinking of pigs cheeks by the description

I remember all the pork butchers back then hard to find one these days.

mckenna · Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:25 am

pigs feet trotters all from the chipy Saturday night after the pub i don/t think they sell them
now. George

mckenna · Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:25 am

pigs feet trotters all from the chipy Saturday night after the pub i don/t think they sell them
now. George

mckenna · Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:25 am

pigs feet trotters all from the chipy Saturday night after the pub i don/t think they sell them
now. George

mckenna · Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:25 am

pigs feet trotters all from the chipy Saturday night after the pub i don/t think they sell them
now. George

jetjockey · Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:48 am

Loved Pigs Belly got it from a butcher on Strand Road Tripe was to me as it's name suggest but my Father loved it

JJ

dorothy834 · Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:26 am

Hi George...I see you have 4posts..
Is that because there was usually
One trotter on each corner

Back to the question..
It does fit the description of tripe...
Sends shudders down my spine to think of it
Come to think of it was'nt tripe from cows belly?.

Dorothy

jetjockey · Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:52 am

dorothy834 wrote:Hi George...I see you have 4posts..
Is that because there was usually
One trotter on each corner
Back to the question..
It does fit the description of tripe...
Sends shudders down my spine to think of it
Come to think of it was'nt tripe from cows belly?.

Dorothy

Sheep I believe Dot

JJ

Invicta · Fri Oct 02, 2015 12:28 pm

Tripe is mostly from beef but can be from other animals. It is taken from the first three parts of a cows stomach. Actually I liked tripe raw with vinegar but not pigs belly. K

mckenna · Fri Oct 02, 2015 1:36 pm

Sorry about the four posts thing of all that food we use to have, even the bfish cakes we
got from the the chipy were better also what about pigs tails loverly jubbly food today is not the same now. George

henry · Fri Oct 02, 2015 2:51 pm

They were furlongs fish cakes

IanA · Fri Oct 02, 2015 4:52 pm

Tripe was white (they actually bleach it) and from a cow's stomach. What we had was a pig's stomach - not all jelly-like and full of craters but looked just as disgusting in its way. I enjoyed it as I did brawn. I only had a pig's trotter once and I liked it but it stuck my lips together. The fish cakes from the chippy in Gower Street were fantastic - not actually sure how much fish they had in them but that was fine by me.

Invicta · Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:00 pm

My Mother would often cook a pigs head - boiled for brawn, pressed cheek etc. Also remember it being roasted. Mum worked in Cooksons and gave the slops to the piggeries on the canal bank and when slaughter day came along she was given all the "odd bits"
Friday night fry up was always fantastic after a few pints.

Now where's me Statins ?

K

IanA · Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:55 pm

We couldn't run to a pig's head but sheep's head broth was good - unless you lifted the pan lid to see the poor old sheep meeting your gaze...

I now fancy deep-fried pigs' tails.

Elaine Goulding · Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:38 pm

Ian, I remember pigs belly and tripe, absolutely loved both of them. Lots of salt, pepper and vinegar. I remember bringing my soon-to-be husband back to our house after a few drinks in the pub. Mum put a plate of pigs belly down to him, when she left and went back into the kitchen, Tom looked at the plate in horror "What in the name of god is that" !!!!! It goes without saying he could not eat it. I haven't had tripe or pigs belly in years. Another thing I used to like, stuffed lamb hearts......yummy

IanA · Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:38 pm

Glad I stirred a few memories, Elaine. I suppose pig's belly would look a bit daunting if you'd never had it before but we were brought up on it. I wonder what it cost in the '50s? As for stuffed lambs' hearts - the food of the gods!