Chitlins, do you eat them?

Back in the day my mother use to make chitlins in the summer and in the fall to have them ready for anyone who wanted them on Thanksgiving day. One of my sisters who claimed to not eat pork would get a bowl full of chitlins sprinkled with hot sauce, and she would hide and eat them so that she could maintain her claim of not eating pork.

As a kid I use to eat them and I LOVED eating pigsfeet, but that was many, many years ago. I don't know if I can eat either of these things prepared by anyone else but my mother and she has long passed away.

Maybe I will try to make my own chitlins one day...

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i love pigs feet.

chitlins turn me off though. tastes good with hot sauce but i wont eat them now.

Sorry I have to say ewwww to both.

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I don't eat livers, hearts or brains but these were foods I was raised on. I had an uncle who had a farm in lower Delaware and one day a half of a hog came to the house and my mother, father and grandmother went to work on that thing with the meat grinder, slicer and butcher/carving knife.

Once they were done you could not find tastier meats! I LOVED the sausage and Scrapple from that hog.

I did not like the chickens they killed to be stewed.....

Now what I think is ewwwww is to eat the mustard from a crab. It ain't mustard!

Q: What is the yellow stuff inside a cooked crab? Some people call it "mustard." Is it fat?
A: Contrary to popular belief, the "mustard" (or the "green gland" or "tomalley") is not fat, it's actually the crab's hepatopancreas, a main component of the crab's digestive system.
The hepatopancreas is a gland made up of very small branched tubes (ramified tubules) located on both sides of the mid-gut in the main body cavity directly under the top shell and functions as both liver and pancreas. It is involved in producing digestive enzymes and is responsible for filtering impurities from the crab's blood.
The "mustard" has a strong taste and is eaten by many people who consider it a delicacy.
Caution: Research shows that chemical contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin, mercury, and poison-inhalation hazards (PIHs) accumulate in the crab's fatty tissues and concentrate in the hepatopancreas. The contaminants, which are colorless, odorless and tasteless, and can increase one's chance of developing cancer, neurological impairments and miscarriage. Women of child-bearing age and children under the age of 5 are at particular risk.
Crabs caught in advisory areas may contain high levels of these contaminants. If you catch crabs in these areas, it is highly recommended that you eat no more than six blue crabs per week and do not consume the "mustard" or cooking liquid.
Eating, selling or harvesting blue crabs from the Newark Bay Complex (Newark Bay, Hackensack River, Passaic River, Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull, and all tributaries to these waterbodies) is prohibited!
In Maryland, blue crabs were sampled in several areas back in 1994-95, including the Chester, Bush and Gunpowder Rivers, Baltimore Harbor, Colgate Creek, Ft. Armistead, Old Road Bay, and Curtis Bay, and the Patapsco River. With the exception of the Middle and Northwest Branches of the Patapsco River, blue crabs were found to be generally low in contaminants. However, "generally low" is not the same as zero. When it comes to your health, it is strongly recommend that you avoid the "mustard".

This thread is making my stomach turn.

So basically its POO!!! LMAO

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The type of poo that will kill ya dead before you hit the floor! (This post not checked for exaggeration)

I have eaten my share of "soul" food
greens
muskrat
pigs feet
gizzards, hearts and liver

but I aint eatin no chitlins

oh, that yellow stuff is shit dude

fat on a crab is in the backfin and the claws......

good thread, we need some soul up in here

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When I was in Georgia I made friends with one of my brothers neighbors. I was a young kid and I think she was trying to seduce me with beer and offering to let me drive her car. But I simply enjoyed having a friend and she was not my type.

One day when I went to her apartment she was cleaning Chitlins. They were not filthy, they had remnints of corn and if anything looked like a bump in it she would cut it out. I remember her letting them soak and then I left. Like I said, I only had eyes for my moms chitlins.