Eating the Whole Cow Scares Me

[Nicole L.]

Argh!  I keep forgetting to change my subjects before
I send my messages.  The fact that it's nearly 4am
probably doesn't help.  :)  Anyway, here's attempt #2.

--- "Nicole L." <nplyon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 00:34:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Nicole L." <nplyon at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Digest Number 765
> To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> 
> 
> > You will have worked out by now that we are down
> to
> > the bones (which 
> > you boil, for stock or for soup). And the hide.
> This
> > is the only part 
> > of a cow that we don't actually eat. Unless it
> > genuinely is a famine, 
> > in which case you boil the ruddy thing. Otherwise,
> > you sell the hide 
> > to the leatherworkers.
> > 
> > Are you beginning to realise why your ancestors
> > emigrated? [evil grin]
> > 
> > Pip
> > (Actually, steak and kidney is very nice. But
> avoid
> > tripe ;-)  )
> 
> Eeeesh.  I don't even like good old American beef,
> which is usually very lean and of the choicest cut. 
> The eating of other parts of animals is not very
> common in the U.S., although my mom did say that my
> grandma used to make them eat pigs' feet from time
> to
> time.  
> 
> Yes, our ancestors emigrated so that we could all
> eat
> choice USDA black Angus beef.  God bless the U.S.A.!
> 
> :)  Who needs religious freedom or taxation *with*
> representation when you can eat a nice juicy T-bone
> steak???  Of course, how can I be astonished by a
> country that eats every last bit of the cow when we
> Americans eat McDonald's and hot dogs on a regular
> basis?  Still, I think I'll stick with that over
> tripe.
> 
> ~Nicole, who is even more American than she
> realized.
> 
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