Has anyone here ever

[Zigzagman]

eaten a pickled pig's foot or a pickled egg? :0!

Remember when big glass jars of pigs' feet and pickled eggs were bar fixtures, just like the jukebox? You could sit there and meditate while you watched them float.

Does anybody still eat that stuff? Or has anybody even seen anyone eating one of those things? I never have, and I've spent enough time in beer joints to write a doctoral dissertation on pickled pigs' feet.

These days I seldom go out after dark but sometimes after too much rum and coke the next day I feel like a pickled pig's foot! Why oh why can't I just stick to that wacky tobacco?

Peace

[daisy]

I have had both, but not from bars. Not that I have a problem with bars, I've just never been to a bar that had either of those.

I tried the pig's foot because my sister's grandmother-in-law thought we should try them because she ate them during the Depression. I tried it to be polite, expecting to retch, and it was a lot more pleasant than I expected. I had pickled eggs in a little restaurant I worked at in high school. I quite like them and have made them a couple times. I may have to do that again soon.

[Alan]

I've seen em all my life. I worked in a small town grocery store in high school and there were big gallon jars of both on the meat counter all the time. I don't remember anyone actually buying them. And you're right about the bars, I remember them from just about all the bars I frequented after joining the Air Force. I recall once, at the Pines Club in Anchorage AK, at about 3am I was hungry and pickled pigs feet were the only food in the joint. I considered them, but even in the state I was in, I went hungry!

[Mrs-M]

Pickled pigs feet, no, pickled eggs, yes! LOVE pickled eggs!!!!! Many years ago my SIL used to buy pickled sausage in a huge glass jar (Christmas time), and after the sausage was all eaten, she'd boil up a batch of eggs, toss them inside the big jar with it's leftover pickling brine, and a few weeks later out came the best darn pickled eggs ever! Yummy!

[IshbelRobertson]

Fish and chip shops in the UK have pickled eggs on the counter (I think it appeals to those who've had a liquid feast evening, topped off with either a fish supper or a haggis supper, with a pickled egg on the side). I've never been tempted!

[Stella]

My dad. He used to eat pickled pigs feet and pickled herring at Christmas, I'm convinced just to make me gag.

[WorldFoodie]

Hi Zig,
If you're near Austin try Fiesta groceries. Maybe a jar of pigs feet and a six pack would do it. :)
http://www.fiestamart.com/html/AboutFiesta.html
WorldFoodie

[janharker]

I have pickled eggs in my fridge. It's shocking just how easy they are to make.

[cdttmm]

pickled herring

One of the only things I actually miss as a vegetarian. My Norwegian roots are strong...not quite strong enough for me to miss eating lutefisk, though. That stuff is vile.

[Kathy WI]

Pickled turkey gizzards are common bar food around here. They look horrible.

[Tenngal]

no way, never, seen them too many times and was never tempted.

[Sad Eyed Lady]

Would never touch the pickled pigs feet, (not real sure I have ever seen any), but have had pickled eggs and think they are pretty tasty. My DH has some in the fridge now he made, but it has been awhile since I have actually eaten one. I remember I liked to eat a cracker with them.

[freein05]

When I was a teenager a friends father would eat pickled pigs feet when watching TV. Grease all over him. He also died at a fairly young age. I have never had a desire to eat them.

[Stella]

One of the only things I actually miss as a vegetarian. My Norwegian roots are strong...not quite strong enough for me to miss eating lutefisk, though. That stuff is vile.

Yes, lutefisk is horrible. My grandma used to make lutefisk from scratch using decent fish like Red Snapper. That should be illegal. I told her our ancestors moved to the U.S. so they could better their station in life and quit eating stuff like fish soaked in lye. We dishonour their memory when we eschew all of the fine culinary offerings we have access to today in favour of gelatinous fish with butter or white sauce.

[chanterelle]

oh yes, have prepared and still make pickled eggs, pigs feet [ aka trotters] pickled and plain, tails --pickled, smoked and plain as well as pigs ears and used to make hogs head cheese also called souse but have a farmer friend who will trade that for lazagna now.
Traditionaly hams, bacon and sausages were the cuts of the wealthy and better off merchants, neck bones for the lower class and the poor got the rest...heads, feet, tails and intestines[ aka chitterlings in the American south]
Last year, when I was helping with CSA distribution, one young Asian woman had an order of pigs ears. When I asked her how she prepared them, she was very embarrassed as if I was going to say eeuuuwwww!!, but when i quickly told her my recipe and she blinked and smiled and gave me hers.

Since then, other CSA members from the South and from other peasant cultures have started to share recipes for parts of creatures
that people who only eat prime cuts make gagging noises over.
We have discovered that recipes for animal parts that cultures thought were unique to them alone can be found in many other places....with a few changes of spices, herbs etc.

[Zigzagman]

I am surprised how many people have tired pigs feet and eggs - also had forgotten about the pickled sausage.

When I was a kid I ate "chitlins"!!! :cool: My grandmother deep fried them and I thought they were delicious with catsup, they reminded me of fried oysters.

That reminds me of "cracklins". When my DW and I first move to the country we got a few of every kid of animal we could think of - a couple of cows, couple of pigs, some chickens, rabbits, etc.

We named our two pigs "Bacon" and "Ham", built a smokehouse, made sausage, smoked out hams, etc. We would take the pigs to the locker plant to have them butchered and wrapped and would trade the lard to a lady down the road who would render it and give us back the cracklins - Now if you want to try something really good....cracklin cornbread!!!!! Also nothing like homemade bacon, nice and thick.

That phase passed because we just got too attached to the animals to eat them - now only have enough cows to keep our agriculture exemption.

Peace

[Stacy]

My dad eats pickled pigs' feet. Apparantly, I loved them when I was very young, up until the point when it dawned on me that they actually were pigs' feet. Maybe I'll be brave one day and try them again.

[Spartana]

Never had pickled pigs feet but once, when I lived in Spain, I got an order of something my british friend called pig trotters. Which of course was pigs feet. Not tasty at all and that's an understatement.