# Brains as Food

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-as-food/75113>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 6, 2001, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-as-food/75113 "2001-08-06T13:40:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-as-food/75113/21 "2001-08-07T23:04:39Z")

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Hie thee to a German butcher and ask for weisswurst; these are sausages made with brains, although I don’t know if they’re beef or pork. (The _weiss-_ part of the name refers to their color.)

These wurst are pretty bland-tasting, so you should eat them with a good, strong mustard. On the other hand, grandma always used to say that plain weisswurst were just the thing to eat if you had an upset stomach. I can’t vouch for that personally, though, because the last thing _I’d_ want to eat on an upset stomach was sausage. 😛

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-as-food/75113/22 "2001-08-07T23:07:51Z")

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According to this website,  
[http://www.endur.com/Cholesterol\_Fat\_Chart.html](http://www.endur.com/Cholesterol_Fat_Chart.html)

a 3.5 oz cooked portion of brain contains 2000 mg (!!!) of cholesterol.

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