#offaling

[pikesbasin]

assorted salted offal?

[black-and-yellow]

Lost

(minus grain)

[thedreadvampy]

The thing is. Bad/gross food is rarely a DISH - when food is bad it's because it's been badly made, whether because of skills or available ingredients. but a dish p much only exists recognisably and has a name because someone likes at least one version of it.

which is to say. there isn't really a way of naming a dish, school of dishes or specific food culture and going EW ISN'T THIS DISH UNILATERALLY CONCEPTUALLY DISGUSTING without denigrating quite a lot of people.

like you don't have to like it in any form. but it's eaten and shared because it's good to a not insubstantial number of people when cooked right.

(and I don't really understand how you approach that with total incuriosity when it's a dish you haven't tried like. ARE rocky mountain oysters good? Maybe! I would very much eat some to find out!!!!)

this is actually something the British food poll did in a way the American ones I've seen haven't really - they described how the food they're imagining is, specifically, badly prepared (grey meat and veggies; unseasoned shepherd's pie). which is wildly tipping the scales by calling it British Food but. like. that is an on point definition of why that food is gross.

(this also applies to American chocolate, which like. Broad category but I think most of us understand this refers to low-cocoa high-sugar chocolate, probably with bucolic acid. so we are being invited to imagine Badly Made Chocolate not. the concept of chocolate)

personally I just think it's very rarely a good or funny idea to shittalk how gross any given food culture is. partly because food is important and culturally evocative for most people, partly because it's very...alienating? to be like WHO COULD EAT SUCH A THING? just because you wouldn't, and largely because to be frank it says more about you than about the food that you have so little imagination or curiosity that you can't imagine why a food might be enjoyable to folks who aren't you.

yes this includes jello salad, I would like to try it. ONCE. if it wasn't appealing to someone it wouldn't be so widespread.

[oh-no-its-bird]

bird. bird please. please. please write a ficlet/short oneshot for me about kakashi having raw meat cravings and how he deals with them. please. and at night he starts having dreams about the ghosts of his ancestors (including tobirama) at a feast or something where theyre eating. raw meat. or he dreams that theyre encouraging him to like 'you're so skinny because you don't have enough meat!' and kakashi thinks he's developing a mental disorder. please bird would you do it for me

Anything for you random anon in my inbox <3

Kakashi, the unfortunate lack of knowledge of the Hatake clan kekkei genkai, and his relationship with food; As seen by others over the years.

Oh also if you're brave enough to come off anon and give me ur ao3 I'll edit the fic to be gifted to you

[xinyuehui]

You'd better come back to the island quickly. Otherwise, everyone on the island, they will all have to die.

Scissor Seven S4 releasing on 23.01.18

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

OFFAL #5

by Roberto Padula

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

hey btw if you've ever dealt with depression/feeling unloved and like psychological horror, play offal. its free, decently quick - graphics are good and characters are charming as shit.

and also, playing it for five minutes lead to me crying into my pillow like a baby. i am not a crier but FUCK. if youve ever been depressed, youve probably been moriah [the mc]. especially if your trans, as moriah is too.

(and as a bonus: if you like the concept but hate jumpscares - you'll be ok. im somebody who has screamed and cried playing roblox's piggy, and the horror part more unsettled me than scared the fuck out of me with jumpscares)

[nordic-language-love]

Conversation with my supervisor while at a Japanese restaurant the other day

Supervisor: *translating the menu* ...and then this one here is pig hormones Me: ...hormones? Supervisor: Yeah I know, but it's really popular here Me: You mean... pork meat from pigs fed with hormones? Supervisor: No, I mean like, the hormones Me: ... Supervisor: You know. The innards. Intestines and stuff Me: That's not what hormones means in English

[8aeddel-vriska]

My slop.

[strangebiology]

What does your slaughterhouse do with the organs/offal? Also - thank you for sharing these photos, I always appreciate behind the scenes documentation when it comes to butchering.

Hi!

I photographed and documented two slaughterhouses for the book. (And I had been to one in Connecticut before, but I only took a few cell phone pics. I might add them to my GRAPHIC slaughterhouse album as well as the pics from the other two places.) Here are my three experiences regarding what they do with the organs and such.

Connecticut: Butcher: "I'm checking the gallbladder for gallstones. We sell it to China and it's worth more if it has gallstones."

Me: "Huh. That's interesting that you can get a use out of that."

Butcher: "We use every part of the animal."

Me: "What's that bucket of organs over there going to be used for?"

Butcher: "I have to pay someone to take that away and get rid of it."

Colorado State University:

They said all the leftovers go to a rendering facility, even the hooves. I'm working on confirming that. When I was there they collected a bunch of organs for students in one of the animal science classes. I don't know where they'd go after that. (Fun fact, CSU is where Temple Grandin works!)

307 Meats

They said the extra goes in the trash.

(Fun fact, 307 Meats is where Jeffree Star's yaks die!)

Note that all three were quite small facilities, with 307 being the fastest. I asked to go to a slaughterhouse at JBS, the biggest meat producer in the world, in Colorado but they wouldn't let me. I wonder if bigger facilities have less waste due to their efficiency?

[ausetkmt]

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Race and Class in America

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Race and Class in America

In her groundbreaking  bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.   “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.   Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization.

These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.   We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author “This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “White Trash will change the way we think about our past and present.” —T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials

[rosie-moon]

Offal Island

[sbnkalny]

Germans be eating "broad cart offal"' and "'shower crowd" & "'wise worst" 🇦🇹💯🇦🇹💯🇦🇹 like '''gluten app a teat'' you ""huron's own'' 😂😂😂👌👌👌

re-ath

[whatudottu]

Hey, hey Shockwave? Your fucked up clone is digging through the butcher's off-cuts

AKA I watched a video about Tarrare and also found a similarly hungry lad during the same time that apparently ate 174 cats dead or alive

[zooniversefinds]

[aq2003]

watching david tennant's version of the coward soliloquy is truly not enough i need to absorb it through my skin let it seep through my flesh and into my bone marrow and also invent time travel to go see it performed live on stage in 2008 too. Btw