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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Danielle,
My disreputable great-uncle* used to work at the Pukeuri freezing works and supplied the Oamaru part of the family with fresh sweetbreads ( sheep pancreatic glands) which, as a kid, I found okay when previously steamed and then cooked in a batter... didnt eat them past the age of 13 (which was when aforesaid g. unc died.)
^ He was the one whip-cracked by a sagacious old lady elephant when he teased her with a cabbage here in Oamaru, many years ago...
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Excellent red meat with sufficient fat/blubber
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Danielle,
I know how to make haggis (I have my Nanna’s recipe notebook – which is kinda cryptic unless you knew Nanna) including the semi-secret (= changeable) herbs that go into it. It’s not only liver but also lights (i.e. lungs) and that latter is too nasty a thought for me. You are, incidentally, supposed to eat the sheep-stomach it is steamed/boiled in (and I’ve always hated tripe…)
I can eat anything piscine or molluscan or non-cetacean from the sea (why yes, I have tried seal-meat thank you) but I am not venturesome when it comes to other mammalian meats...
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to merc,
One of my nephews spent a year there as an AFS...I have his photos, and an annotated map of the place & his journeyings therein-
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Hebe,
Respect the aunties a generation older than yourself and, always, know you know better than them - :)
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Steve Barnes,
also steer clear of “Rotten Corn”
I dont like kanga pirau either (or that other N.I delicacy, gorn-orf-shark.) And yes, there is an argument to be made that some culturally esteemed foods were originally for the poverty-stricken. However, huhu grubs, like kanakana (hagfish), were &*are* delicacies ( and importantly,especially in the old days, fat-rich foods. Like titi & other seasonally-taken birds...)
Altho' I am of Scots descent, I dont like haggis - and I've always abominated tripe. I've patronised MacGonads (like!) once in my life...
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You love the strangest things Islander.
Yup, Steve B - you tried kina roe fresh from the echinoderm? Paua stomach soup?Water-fermented bull-kelp stipes?
Yummy delicio!
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So, “The money, the Bag, or the mouthful of glutinous hag-fish?”
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Steve Barnes,
So, “The money, the Bag, or the mouthful of glutinous hag-fish?”
Dear Steve B-
we call lamprey/hagfish/slime-eels "kanakana" (because they dance in water - they look like swirls of silk, coming into freshwater from the sea) and we esteem them as a great delicacy...you leave them to exude their slime, kill them by severing their spinal cord, dry them for a day or 2, and then lightly smoke 'em.
They are so much better, richer - and MUCH bigger! than the finest smoked Norwegian brisling. -
Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to bob daktari,
+many