Hi Everyone, Ewww… Gross! Yuck! These sounds plus expressions of scorn and disgust are usually the reaction of many people when they are offered the other parts of meat, poultry or seafood. What do I mean by the other parts? Well, you know, the ears, tails, snout, cheeks, shanks, bellies, feet, necks, brains, tongues, heads, hearts, kidneys, gizzards, and liver. All can inspire expressions of aversion these days. Thankfully, it wasn’t always so. There were (and luckily still are) many people who took exquisite pleasure in the other meats.
Many of these other parts are eaten for pleasure and for some people, the belief that they will be imbued with particular qualities of the animals from which they came, like sexual prowess, testosterone and aphrodisiac. But it is not all about sexual appetite and performance, there is strong belief in the healing that takes place from drinking and eating soups,