While waiting in the express lane the other day, I noticed that the elderly woman in front of me was buying something in a jar that looked like an exhibit from a biology lab. As the checker picked it up, I got a glimpse of the label. It was a jar of lamb tongues.
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m just real conservative in my eating habits. Maybe lamb tongues are really tasty. But I just wouldn’t have thought there’d be a big enough market to justify printing up the labels and putting them on the shelves. All I know is that if civilization crumbles and I, as the last survivor, have to scrape by on the dwindling stock of that one grocery store, I’d be subsisting on stale circus peanuts and brittle Necco wafers and would be considering the catfood aisle while cobwebs hung heavy on the preserved lamb tongues.
Well, they sell beef tongue.
I wonder if there is a different taste in tongue.
I’ve never tried them though.
My eating habits do not include internal stuff except I’ve tried hog nuts but only cause they were served at a football banquet and you weren’t tough unless you ate it.
::shudder:: I remember when I worked at a grocery store…I was handed a container of lamb tongues, but they didn’t notice that it was open a little…next thing I knew I had this stuff all over me, and it was the most putrid smell I’ve ever encountered (With the exception of my brother).
Well if they can sell the tongues of other things and various other assorted parts then why not? It goes back to the whole theory of not wasting anything. If people eat pig’s feet then why not lamb’s tongues?
Lamb’s tongues? Must be a Yankee thing. We don’t eat such things down here. We eat normal things like pigs feet and chitlins (if you don’t know, you don’t want to know).
My aunts bought two hogs heads and made hogs head chesse last week. They were upset because the butcher didn’t include the brains!
I actually saw hogs head cheese at Kroger about a month ago. It was sliced in a tidy plastic package just like all the other lunchmeat. I just stared.
By the way, am I the only one who thinks “tongues” doesn’t look right, no matter how you spell it?