# British food secret revealed....now what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343 "2003-02-16T01:19:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f1d935/32.png) [@ion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ion)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/81 "2003-02-20T01:42:08Z")
thankyouverymuch And just so you don’t get any strange ideas about me, I find palt quite repugnant. ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/82 "2003-02-20T02:10:20Z")
**athene1765** , you are quite right about the cinnamon and raisins! That is the best. My Gram used to make it with blueberries sometimes too, which was amazing. I wish I had gotten her recipes… As for cajun food…ahhhhh, YUM. **d\_redguy** and I went to New Orleans on our honeymoon recently and discovered that we LOVE cajun food. Especially gumbo and anything with crawdads. I wanna live there. _sigh_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/83 "2003-02-20T02:16:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*…and you are going to pay us back for those lend/lease destroyers when? 🙂 \*\* [http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds02/text/20527w02.htm](http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds02/text/20527w02.htm) Projected date for paying off the debts to the US for WW2 is December 31st 2006. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/84 "2003-02-20T04:08:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brynda \* > \*\*Actually, the liver I have seen on US menus is beef liver. You mention pig and lamb, but not beef liver. Is it uncommon in the UK? \*\* That’s what I said! Ox = beef. I said that ox liver is what you see in the US, but in the UK it is pig and lamb that is most commonly seen. In fact, I worked in a butcher’s shop as a teenager (in the UK) and we sold ox liver as dog-food! ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/85 "2003-02-20T12:40:29Z")
In the UK the best liver is supposed to be calves’ liver, then lamb. “Beef” liver from the full grown animal would be only for pet food. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/86 "2003-02-20T13:28:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by amarone \* > \*\* liver lamb that is most commonly seen. \*\* Oh please, stop, I promise I’l never say anything bad about Britain again…wonderfull people…bore the brunt of WWII…Ralph Vaughn Williams…Victoria, a sweet, sweet woman…foolish revolution… ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/87 "2003-02-20T13:36:10Z")
You’re getting the idea, **carnivorousplant**. No, you do see ox liver other than as dog food, although, as I’ve said, it is stronger-flavoured than other varieties and hence less popular. Cooked the right way it slips down a treat, though. We all have foods we’re not prepared to stomach. I could never be doing with vegetable marrow, tripe, or whelks. Most other things I’ll try 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/88 "2003-02-20T13:40:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Malacandra \* > \*\* slips down a treat, though. > > \*\* Please, no ---
**Author:** ![ion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f1d935/32.png) [@ion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ion)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/89 "2003-02-20T13:58:27Z")
Oh, this keeps getting more interesting. I’m thinking of starting my own Swedish thread where we can discuss the heavenly pleasures attained by relishing delicacies such as fermented herring and pickled pigs’ trotters… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/90 "2003-02-20T14:05:49Z")
have mercy Urk! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/91 "2003-02-20T15:04:01Z")
And as we all know, south of the Mason-Dixon is known for the refinements of chitlin’s and turkey gizzards. Someone hand me a pork rind 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/92 "2003-02-20T15:22:52Z")
South of The Mason-Dixon and Kosher. ;j ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343/93 "2003-02-20T22:22:13Z")
I have an ex-boyfriend who, along with several of his friends, frequently ate pork rinds with- can you imagine- whipped cream. :eek: They claimed it was delicious, but it made me want to hurl. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-food-secret-revealed-now-what/155343.md?page=4)