Comments on: More tongue http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2008/01/19/more-tongue/ eating and thinking in Wisconsin Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:49:59 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ray http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2008/01/19/more-tongue/comment-page-1/#comment-39346 Ray Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:54:05 +0000 http://www.whatgeekseat.com/wordpress/2008/01/19/more-tongue/#comment-39346 I grew up on a 40 acre farm in Missouri. We ate lots of things most folks throw away today. Pork brains, liver, all chicken parts including the feet, cheek meat from the cows head, scrapple made from boiled hogs head and corn meal, a "hanging tender" piece of beef from the cows diaphragm, rabbit, squirrel, and yes, beef tongue. I really liked it all of this a lot except the chicken feet. My favorite is beef tongue. I even have one in the fridge right now. My two oldest kids wouldn't eat tongue because they evidently tasted it with their ears and eyes. My youngest asked what I was giving him as I served him a tongue sandwich. Having learned what not to say from my older kids, I said "long steak". He still loves it even after he learned what it really was! I grew up on a 40 acre farm in Missouri. We ate lots of things most folks throw away today. Pork brains, liver, all chicken parts including the feet, cheek meat from the cows head, scrapple made from boiled hogs head and corn meal, a “hanging tender” piece of beef from the cows diaphragm, rabbit, squirrel, and yes, beef tongue. I really liked it all of this a lot except the chicken feet. My favorite is beef tongue. I even have one in the fridge right now.

My two oldest kids wouldn’t eat tongue because they evidently tasted it with their ears and eyes. My youngest asked what I was giving him as I served him a tongue sandwich. Having learned what not to say from my older kids, I said “long steak”. He still loves it even after he learned what it really was!

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