# Ok who the hell is eating the pig's feet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841 "2000-08-26T16:16:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/21 "2000-08-26T22:27:41Z")
They’re also popular in some parts of Ireland, judging from some songs I’ve heard. They’re called crubens, or something that sounds like that. A guy walks into a deli for lunch, and asks the guy behind the counter what’s good. He replies, “Well, we’re famous for our cow’s tongue sandwich”. The first guy says, “No way, I’m not eating something that came out of a cow’s mouth! Give me an egg salad sandwich.” ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/22 "2000-08-27T01:06:21Z")
Before I moved up to my medical secretary gig, I actually worked at Hormel Foods, my job title was “pork chop slicer” but besides slicing pork chops (with a blade saw, I nearly lost fingers on several occasions), I also got to package the offal. Offal refers to such delightful cuts of meat as feet, hocks, neckbones, stomachs, ears, and tails. Mmmmmm. The stomachs were the worst, they smelled terrible. Feet seem to be the most popular of the cuts of meat categorized as offal…at least, that’s what we packaged most of the time. This was fresh, by the way, not canned or pickled. I also walked through the area where they make Spam on a daily basis (it was the room next door). I don’t eat Spam anymore. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/23 "2000-08-27T01:33:48Z")
A few of my elderly Polish relatives eat jellied pickled pigs’ feet at Christmas. Nobody in the two younger generations has ever worked up the courage to try them, except my dad who will eat anything as long as it’s not beets, so I suspect it’s a dying tradition. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/24 "2000-08-27T01:41:18Z")
My grandmother used to eat them, and one of my college age cousins loves them. Blech. What ARE pork rinds, anyways? Actually, tongue meat is supposed to be very good-not a lot of fat, and VERY tender. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/25 "2000-08-27T02:16:00Z")
Well, I have been known to. I don’t buy the kind in the jar though; I get smoked pigs’ feet from the meat case at the store. I put a couple into my split pea soup and simmer the hell out of it. (Mmm-mmm-mmm!). Actually, I more often use a ham bone, but pigs’ feet will do in a pinch. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/26 "2000-08-27T02:19:43Z")
Pork rinds are pig skin deep fried in fat. Now that I think about gross pork products, it reminds me of one of my favorite dishes, chorizo! yummmy! It consists of: Pork salivary glands, lymph glands and fat (cheeks and tongues), along with a bunch of spices. I swear, this stuff rocks! ---
**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:** [August 27, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/27 "2000-08-27T02:22:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Democritus \* > \*\*Pork rinds are pig skin deep fried in fat. > > Pork salivary glands, lymph glands and fat (cheeks and tongues), along with a bunch of spices. \*\* “G-d, thank you for making me Jewish…” ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/28 "2000-08-27T02:44:42Z")
Mishell > [@](#): > > Offal refers to such delightful cuts of meat as feet, hocks, neckbones, stomachs, ears, and tails. Mmmmmm. The stomachs were the worst, they smelled terrible. That sounds just offal. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/29 "2000-08-27T02:50:54Z")
When puns are outlawed, only Aha and his space alien…er, only outlaws will have puns. e are on to you. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36149](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36149) ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/30 "2000-08-27T03:08:13Z")
My grandfather used to eat pigs’ feet. He also ate blood pudding–for those who don’t know, blood pudding is, yes, congealed blood. Maybe it had something to do with living through the Depression. My father and his brother eat souse–pig head meat (tongues, snoots, ears, what have you) embedded in some sort of gelatinous substance. I might force the stuff down to keep from starving to death…or I might not. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/31 "2000-08-27T03:58:02Z")
Blech. And I thought Spam sounded bad. Now of course there’s haggis and headcheese and sweetbreads… I think I’ll stick with chocolate… ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/32 "2000-08-27T13:28:24Z")
Pig’s feet, yep I’ve had them. It is true that a lot of the foods in the South developed during the Depression. When you are poor and hungry you ain’t chosey. My mom used to make them. When we were growing up you didn’t question what was put in front of you. You just ate it. Pig’s feet with vinegar. Not a regular meal, but we had them maybe a few times a year. Later, as times got better, so did the food. Lots of people have them with blackeye peas on New Year’s Day, it’s tradition. Food that most people would turn their noses up at today, kept a lot of people alive in times past. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/33 "2000-08-27T13:55:42Z")
Well…hell if you eat them then I’ll eat them ultress. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/34 "2000-08-27T14:12:54Z")
Those are days long gone, my friend, aha. I stick to chicken, turkey and fish, with the occasional prime rib. A lot of Southerns in my parent’s generation have high blood pressure, is it any wonder? ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/35 "2000-08-27T14:34:03Z")
> [@](#): > > A lot of Southerns in my parent’s generation have high blood pressure, is it any wonder? So right. I started taking high blood pressure pills at 25 and have been taking them ever since. The good news is that bp meds work. These days my bp is 120 over 80 all the time. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/36 "2000-08-27T15:03:25Z")
I’ve known of blackeyed peas on New Year’s as a Southern tradtition, but not the pig’s feet. ---
**Author:** ![filthy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@filthy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filthy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/37 "2000-08-27T15:33:51Z")
I eat pig’s feet, roasted. Also fried chitterlings, and I like brains scrambled with eggs. Pork neck and back bones are great baked with barbeque sauce, although there isn’t much meat. I don’t care much for ears and tails, however. I first had blood pudding in Canada, and can’t get it here at home, dammit. And the best part of a chicken is the neck. Eat it bones and all. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/38 "2000-08-27T15:54:01Z")
filthy Just don’t go swimming in the cement pond for at least an hour after eating. And keep your hands off miss Ellie. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/39 "2000-08-27T16:02:33Z")
Pit e full. Pit e full. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841/40 "2000-08-27T18:20:05Z")
Black eyed peas…I THINK I’ve had them…in bean salad? They seemed more like beans than peas. What’s so bad about black-eyed peas? I’ve eaten mussels soup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-the-hell-is-eating-the-pigs-feet/30841.md?page=3)