Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

Yes Pete, the hard roe is like compressed eggs. Usually pale pinky orange with a darker more orange “ skin”. Cold smoked salmon is fine if and it is a big if it has been slowly smoked in the traditional way. It is not so dissimilar to the dreadful way smoked haddock is now mass produced. Never been near a smokehouse and died bright yellow, nothing like how it was originally meant to taste.

 

Saw dust on butchers floors was surely to soak up the blood?
You dont see blood in butchers anymore.

 

The first time I was invited to meet my future mother in law she roasted a chicken for lunch. She was a bit of a forgetful old woman. When my future father in law, a dour Scotsman with absolutely no sense of humour, began to carve it up at the table he noticed a funny crackly noise coming from it. She had roasted it with the little plastic bag of giblets still inside the bodily cavity. It certainly broke the conversational ice.

 

Can't remember the last time I found a chicken on sale with its giblets inside. Decades.

 

We have been together for 50+ years.

I’m a stranger to chickens’ insides myself, having been vegetarian for almost as long.

 

Umble Pie. Umble being the word for the innards of a deer or pig.

 

In turkeys you get the bag plus a neck. Actually I couldn't find it this year. I once found 2 necks. Can never remember which end to look in.

 

I don't eat meat, the very sight of it turns on me

 

There is a large Chinese supermarket in the centre of Birmingham and the last time we went there were bags of feet available to buy. It's an interesting shop to visit. Smells very much of five spice powder in there.

 

Spoke to an engineer who worked on a factory in the middle of nowhere in China. The food was disgusting. The canteen dished up chicken but it was the bits we all throw out.