# Abominable local cuisine

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abominable-local-cuisine/467322>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 10, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abominable-local-cuisine/467322 "2008-10-10T14:28:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abominable-local-cuisine/467322/181 "2008-10-18T00:16:29Z")

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I also recall an incident 20 years ago in Pai district of Mae Hong Son province, in the North. I was visiting a farm family in the company of a local government official. The family made these … things, for sale. Would dry them in trays on the roof. Thin, round and crisp, like a tostada. Had the brown color of water-buffalo dung. Tasted like what I could only imagine water-buffalo dung tasted like. Truly horrid. I ate a couple to be polite, and they ended up giving us each a whole big bag of them. The official and I were walking up the path back to his pickup, and I was still trying to get one of them down. He asked me how I liked it. Wanting to be polite, I said oh yeah, tasty. He handed me his bag and said: “Here, you can have mine. I can’t stand these things!” !!! I said I’d save them for later.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abominable-local-cuisine/467322/182 "2008-10-18T03:53:10Z")

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> [@Atomicflea](#):
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> I moved to Chicago a couple of years ago, and I don’t understand the lure of White Castle or  
> _ugh_  
> ox-tail soup.

Oxtails are like the beefiest-tasting part of the cow. I fucking _love_ them, but, unfortunately, so do a whole mess of a lot of people, as they’re not particularly cheap anymore. Too bad.

Is oxtail particular to Chicago? I never thought of it as such.

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abominable-local-cuisine/467322/183 "2008-10-18T06:21:31Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Oxtails are like the beefiest-tasting part of the cow. I fucking _love_ them, but, unfortunately, so do a whole mess of a lot of people, as they’re not particularly cheap anymore. Too bad.
> 
> Is oxtail particular to Chicago? I never thought of it as such.

Oxtail makes the best beef-vegetable soup.

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