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[amateur51]

HUZZAH!!!

But what is your position on foie gras, ammy?

Incidentally, I post reluctantly since this thread is plainly just another example of Simonesque sh*t-stirring...

I've sat next to a farmer in the Perigord as she sat on her stool and was mobbed by her geese to be next in line for the funnel-fulla-corn treatment. Thry loved it!

i can't afford foie gras but I'm delighted when an opportunity to eat it presents itself. It goes very well with good sweet wine and good bread, or toasted brioche, and a nice walnutty salad.

It's a very French product I think, but why the British who excel at offal products like haggis, black pudding, sausages, hazlett, savoury duck, faggots should get upset about it is a bafflement. Perhaps it's only Southerners who protest? Oh no, Simon's not a Southerner, is he

[amateur51]

I too was reluctant, but I think half-term is now finished?

[Anna]

haggis, black pudding, sausages, hazlett, savoury duck, faggots

By 'Eck Gladys, next you'll be extolling t'virtues o' chitterlings!

[amateur51]

By 'Eck Gladys, next you'll be extolling t'virtues o' chitterlings!

Oddly enough they're a regular item on a very nifty Szechuan resto just up the road - handsome!

They really do use ALL of a beast - beef tendon is cooked very slowly until blissfully gelatinous & it is rather special

[Anna]

They really do use ALL of a beast

Exactly, why kill and throw half of it away? No other nation does, look at all those lovely salamis. My beloved Nan loved pigs' trotters and bath chaps (Oo, I say!) not them kind of Chaps from Bath! Pig's cheeks!
Edit: We have de-railed Simon's thread!

[vinteuil]

savoury duck

good lord, but these threads are educational. Had never heard this expression before (altho' I come from a county which prides itself on its faggots... ).

'Savoury ducks' would seem to bear about as much resemblance to real ducks [anatidae] as do 'Bombay ducks'*!


* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_duck

[amateur51]

good lord, but these threads are educational. Had never heard this expression before (altho' I come from a county which prides itself on its faggots... ).

'Savoury ducks' would seem to bear about as much resemblance to real ducks [anatidae] as do 'Bombay ducks'!

delicious fried with bacon, but I don't know where you'd get them these days - Wrexham's butchers' market in the 1960s was a certain source, but now ..?

[Nick Armstrong]

I've sat next to a farmer in the Perigord as she sat on her stool and was mobbed by her geese to be next in line for the funnel-fulla-corn treatment. Thry loved it!

i can't afford foie gras but I'm delighted when an opportunity to eat it presents itself. It goes very well with good sweet wine and good bread, or toasted brioche, and a nice walnutty salad.

It's a very French product I think, but why the British who excel at offal products like haggis, black pudding, sausages, hazlett, savoury duck, faggots should get upset about it is a bafflement. Perhaps it's only Southerners who protest? Oh no, Simon's not a Southerner, is he

Very interesting, ammy, thanks. I've long thought that there was more to it than the simplistic propaganda with which we have been force-fed. I completely agree that the barbaric treatment of pigs &c. abroad might be a greater evil from which corporate interest could well have an interest in deflecting attention.

Savoury duck is a new one on me too, vinjaune... How kaleidoscopic is the world of offal, faggots and rissoles

[Anna]

Savoury duck is a new one on me too, vinjaune... How kaleidoscopic is the world of offal, faggots and rissoles

Savoury ducks, just a Northern term for a simple faggot. My independent butcher has had his faggots awarded Gold Awards in annual South Wales competitons. He sells them at a mere 55p each. My goodness, you could feed a family of four for a fortnight for less than the cost of a Scratch Card! Actually, they are very good, possibly not for those of a nervous disposition who dislike strong flavours.
Edit: Actually I am roasting pork at the mo! The Pig. An all purpose animal!

[MrGongGong]

I knighthood for Fergus methinks

[Flosshilde]

Savoury ducks, just a Northern term for a simple faggot.

I was going to say that I thought 'savoury duck' was a synonym for 'faggots', so glad to have it confirmed by Anna. I haven't had them for years - just not known here. Lardy cake is another wonderful thing using pig products.

[amateur51]

I knighthood for Fergus methinks

I'd post the fillum of him cooking (and eating) a pig's head but I suspect I might get sent down to the basement

If I were Queenie, I'd make him a Companion of Honour rather than a Knight - and insist that he should bring some toothsome viandes for the next do!

[MrGongGong]

This might be of interest to some of you

http://www.keziefoods.co.uk/

[Lateralthinking1]

Sorry folks. Totally opposed to foie gras. Not going to rationalize it. Just anti.

[MrGongGong]

Q. How can you tell if someone is a vegan?
A. They'll tell you.