i should really win an OSCAR for acting..
 

peaceful morning..i just tossed in a half handful of raisins into my plain oatmeal.

(wait..some history.

about a month ago, i took this lady over to my hipster butcher. she is the sweetest lady from the the Philippines. super smart. hard worker..she is our office admin lady.

she wanted a pig face. okaaaay. there was no way i was gonna miss the facial expression of my butcher when she ordered a face. i drove her there. he was totally disappointing..no facial tic at all..maybe some excitement he gets to sell a pig face!! i wanted him to high five his wife or something..or twist his handlebar mustache while pondering a distant thought..nothing. rub his knit beanie..no..nothing.

anyways. we at least got to pick the target pig head. that was cool. it was $30!! he essentially took out the skull. she went back to pick it up a few days later.

i forgot all about it..)

okay. so i take a bite of my oatmeal. in comes the tiny Filipino lady? she says, "hey you want to try some food?"..
"Sure!"
there really is no backpedaling from a "SURE!" i had even grabbed a clean fork.

she plops down a tupperware container of meat. it is brick red. i knew it immediately, but i took a bite. i totally faked it!! i acted like it was delicious!! it was okay..
she said, "it is the pig face! the crunchy bits are the ear and nose!"
"the rest is yours to take home.."
i said, "is this chocolate meat?"
"yes, but we call it ____________(something i cannot pronounce)..we add pork blood to get it that color!"

i felt my cholesterol spike. my heartrate went up 10 tics to move my sludgey blood.

lesson learned. never say "sure!" to a lady that had just bought a pig face. :D

my wife does want to try it. i'm done. that dish would kill me. gout attack - heart attack..i think i found the limits to my food adventurism.

Dogs love pig ears!

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My rule, never eat anything that's looking at you.

not even a whole fish?

faces dont bother me one bit. i freak out when it is so blatantly unhealthy for the most part.

Pig face is actually really good. You just have to prepare it right. Usually in a bbq manner. Without blood.

agreed.

i cooked the cheeks, and they were amazing.

about blood. i imagine it was a necessity back in the day. before multivitamins. :)

I know this wasn't a "potluck", but these memes are ALWAYS rolling around in my head when eating someone else's "home" cooking.
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I fully understand many other cultures like what would be "weird" food to me. I get it, I understand it. BUT, I can live without the need or desire to eat organ meat, faces or feet. I remember one of my friends in Hawaii loved chicken feet. Whatever, I will stick to hotdogs and apple pie, BBQ and most all Italian food. I do love Chinese food, Americanized Chinese food, no faces and organ meat.

I know absolutely I would be asking for seconds on pig face if I had not eaten for a couple of days. That is not likely to happen.

I used to be a regular (at least once a week) at a sushi bar.
I am pretty adventurous (Uni, fish eggs, etc.).
When you are a regular sometimes the chef will toss out something special from under the counter.
I was good with that and ate almost everything he gave me.
Then one day the cook comes out of the kitchen and plunks a plate with cooked tuna head down in front of me.
I picked the meat off as best as could I could (it was very yummy).
I could tell by their expression they were a little disappointed I didn't eat the eyeballs.

then there was the place that served live uni, they would grab a uni, crack it open clean out the nasty bits and serve it up to you.

The spines we still moving while you eat it... I was the big attraction at the sushi bar that night.

I also like Spanish mackerel, many place fillet off the meat and serve it on the carcass with the head and tail intact (often they put a skewer through the head and tail so fish is looking up at you). That particularly freaks my wife out. :D

someone say mackarel?

dinner - night before last. working on our good cholesterol. saba mackerel.


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Saba (nigiri) is my favorite at the sushi bar!

When it comes to food I prefer honesty.

Otherwise I may end up with a continual stream of stuff I don't like.

My Dad says that Head Cheese was a regular when he was a kid. Some traditions need to stop. Never had it.

Different people like different parts.

Which is good, as it means nearly the whole thing can get eaten.

When i lived in Spain we would go snorkeling for octopus. The rocks were covered in urchin. When we were done we would grab a few urchin, pick some lemons off the trees by the beach and do as you say, cut the bottom, spoon out the nasty bits, squirt some lemon and go at 'em with some beers. Now it's against the law to take urchin.

It's called "Dinuguan", literally "added blood".

I have worked with a lot of Philippinos over the years. Mostly just happy to make some fish head soup in the rice cooker. Whole head, eyes and all, not for me.

thanks!! that's it. you like it?