The Edibility of Animal Spleens

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A tip of the hat to pal Brad V. for finding this one.

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Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 08, 2014
Category: Animals | Junk Food | Nineteenth Century

Comments

How about a line of frozen dinners? I can see it now, we'll call it Spleen Cuisine! :lol: :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 10/08/14 at 09:27 AM

You know, Ty, you're going to have to spleen that for our non-American friends. (as in Lucy! Ewe got some spleening to do.)

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/08/14 at 10:07 AM

My grandma Bragg called it "sweetbread", but the only time I tried it as a young sprout I learned why it was usually called "offal".

Posted by KDP on 10/08/14 at 11:14 AM

That's just a bunch of haggis.

Posted by tadchem on 10/08/14 at 03:09 PM

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