Eating a Pig’s Head

The Limeyg blog explores how to eat a roasted pig's head:
We started by tearing off the ears; the skin was fantastic, salty and crunchy, but not worthy of too much attention when the rest of the head was sitting there, full of secrets...
There was a small motherlode of deliciousness at the temple, a couple of inches up behind the eye: it was similar to the oysters on a chicken, except juicier and more tender.

I'm a meat lover, but I think I'd have to pass on this. I don't like my food to be staring back at me.
     Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 07, 2009
     Category: Food





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Down here in cajun land he have get together for a cochon de lait, which is basically a slow, slow pig roast (about 6 to 10 hours depending on the chef). I won't touch certain parts of the pig but I do have relatives that will eat the whole freaking head.

While packing my parents house up (they were retiring to the country) I came across a gallon size glass jar of pickled pigs feet in the back of mom's pantry. Disgusting!!! :sick: What made it worse was that it was forgotten about for about 20 years. Nasty!!!!
Posted by Madd Maxx on 02/07/09 at 09:08 AM
When my daughter was in high school she took culinary classes for the whole time. There is video of her running around where she took a dare and ate a boiled pig's eyeball.
Ewwww
Posted by AGFH on 02/07/09 at 09:10 AM
Over on this end of the world lambs' heads are served regularly but NOT in this house or to this dude. I've seen whole roasted suckling pig in Madrid being served. Once again, a serious NOT item.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/07/09 at 10:58 AM
Boy, I really butchered that up. That should be

Down here in cajun land we get together for a cochon de lait.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 02/07/09 at 11:29 AM
when I was a butcher we always bought a suckling pig, stuck an apple in it's mouth, and put it in the showcase. freaked everyone out but the kids...they just loved it!!!!!
Posted by mrjazz on 02/07/09 at 11:53 AM
Casting back a few decades, I used to eat sauerkraut and pig tails at the neighbor's house. They were from the "old country" and we all lived in "calftown".
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/07/09 at 12:35 PM
Wow! This is like a dam burst! Jars of mountain oysters and pigs' feet on the bar in taverns all over the South side of town. The Irish (North end) would never, never do that!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/07/09 at 12:36 PM
No, Patty, the tails are as close as I ever got. I also believe that whatever is on the inside doesn't need to be on the table! No liver, heart, tongue, intestines only for sausages, etc.

BTW, city folk, did you know that sausages are made by stuffing the intestines with whatever? Think about that, the lower part of the digestive tract is wrapping Jimmy Deans finest on your breakfast table! :coolsmile:
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/08/09 at 01:24 AM
hi patty! mrjazz and the clan have been in the land of viral infection....details not necessary!!
plus I've been at this damn computer day and night trying to figure out how to play bittorrent files. a friend gave me a link to some music I want and just can't figure out how to do it!!

any of you techies have some advice?
Posted by mrjazz on 02/08/09 at 12:55 PM
Right there with ya Patty. Liver is wonderful. There were times that everything needed to be used. I'm sure that if all I had was pigs feet or pigs heads and I was starving, I would rip into that stuff regardless if it was cooked or not. The only thing that comes to mind that I will never eat again is sea urchin. I was expecting something meatier (don't know why). It was closer to warm pudding. Bleahhh! :sick: But at least I tried it.
Posted by DownCrisis on 02/08/09 at 11:09 PM
That is where they cum from!
Posted by Madd Maxx on 02/09/09 at 08:50 AM
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