The asian shops here are like an education in animal anatomy.
I once bought my brother a tin labelled 'Five Delicious Parts of a Duck'. I have no idea whether he consumed them, but I'm inclined to doubt it.
haha. My old flatshare had an Iranian tin of "Sheep's head and feet" that we never did dare open.
Facebook gave me an on this day reminder earlier this week of the time I had the AAAAA Andouillette sausage.
It is a truly disgusting food, in texture, flavour, odour and appearance. If you can imagine the process of gutting a pig for food, Andouillette is made from the bits that gutting is normally meant to dispose of, specifically the intestines. To hear some of my partner's extended family in France rattle on about the merits of Andouillette, you'd think that the more colon and anus included, the better. The worst of all are prepared in homes and farms or by the local butcher. They are also available pre-packed from more commercial sources. Although you might imagine that the cleaning, preserving etc, of industrial preparation would help, and it's true that the appalling faecal odour is reduced, they aren't much better.
My life hasn't improved by trying Andouillette and arguably it got worse.
Pretty sure I've told this story before, but a refresher will help ensure I don't repeat the experience.
I didn't know what I was ordering and the waiter tried to warn me. In very broken English he said a few words then did a swirling action with his hand pointing to his intestines. I just thought, well yeah it's a sausage of course it has some intestines in it and other stuff. Whilst also thinking that I love black pudding so how bad can it be. How wrong I was. Smell was horrendous. Taste wasn't as bad though, but that's a low benchmark. Texture was meaty, but I expected something very different. There was a range of emotions experienced during that meal. It was probably worse for my girlfriend at the time as the smell put her off her meal.