My first visit to the open-air market in Beersheba was an eye opener.
The fruits and vegetables were colorful, plentiful, and not expensive.
But seeing the heads and insides of cows or sheep displayed was not something I was used to in Jerusalem's Shuk Machane Yehuda.
This picture of the butcher with a long knife about to cut something I knew only from anatomy course made an "offal" impression on me.
Enlarge the photo if you have the stomach for it.
The term offal is used in the United Kingdom while in the United States organ meats or the euphemistic term variety meats is used instead.
If you really really want to learn the strange vocabulary, see this food blog.
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I don't think that shop would pass inspection (lol)!
ReplyDeleteFresh meat for dinner. Yemenite jews like to grill cows udder! Really awful, even I like the other inner parts like heart, liver or kidneys.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, if Jon or Art didn't know what kind of meat was being served, they'd call it "mystery meat".
ReplyDeleteI think Dina is about to turn vegetarian.
ReplyDeleteUrp! Glad I'm a vegetarian ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm not averse to eating some every now and then (especially in Spanish-Filipino cuisine), but I'd rather not see them raw either.
ReplyDeleteEgads, that just sorta turns the stomach a bit but then, how many hot dogs are many of us eating out there that includes, "mystery meat" that nobody has any idea what it entails? ... take care, my friend.
ReplyDeleteI think the funny Italian word for that is frattaglie, feminine and always used to the plural.
ReplyDeleteThis Offal
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal
was a new word for me. I was grown up in Finland and we have this black sausage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustamakkara
which I like very much!
Just came from a summer holiday there and enjoyed this food again.
Eeuw is right. I don't think I'll enlarge the photo!
ReplyDeleteAnumorchy, kiitos for the link to Mustamakkara. It is about an unkosher as it gets (pig blood), so I won't be trying it.
ReplyDeleteFriends, thanks for your funny comments! hehe