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@ 2008-12-04 – 18:17:57
my dad used to like eating weetabix drowned in warm milk so it was just liquid.
i hated the sound he made when he slurped it, and the smell of it.
but the worse thing was when he treated himself to a bowl of tripe in warm milk.
we'd all run out into the street screaming.
god knows what the neighbours thought he'd been up to.
but he was oblivious - he turned his hearing aid off more often than not (and especially when he was at home).
kendersrule
Pro 
kevinwilson
Pro exactly!
yuk! tripe,chicklins my dad liked, however thats spelt, as well as tripe, and black pudding,none of which i fancy,0h and pigs trotters.yukkie!
kevinwilson
Pro i bet some gourmet chefs serve up pigs trotters as if it was a rare delicacy!
that woudnt surprise me after all they serve up pigion,and alsorts of things many of us would not want to eat.
kevinwilson
Pro black pudding ice cream - now that would be interesting!
0h my goodness, can you imagin that.yukkie!
think I'll pass on your menu thanks 
BO (my grandad) ate pig trotters and bread broken up into a bowl with a oxo cube and hot water poured over 
kevinwilson
Pro oh yummy (not) !
I like weetabix with sugar and cold milk and eat it real quick 'I HATE IT SOFT' ... Tripe YUCK!!!
kevinwilson
Pro yes, weetabix has to be crunchy otherwise it is inedible... xx
la_spice
My ex's father used to be a tripe dresser. I remember my ex chasing me round the room with a piece of tripe on a fork. I guess that should have been a sign not to marry him!
kevinwilson
Pro you don't see many tripe dresser jobs advertised these days, do you?!
la_spice
I don't even know what tripes wear? 
my gran made us tripe and onions every friday and well yep we used to have weetabix mashed up cold in milk and sugar and drink it from a mug!!...good taste your dad..
kevinwilson
Pro i'm sure it's good for you, but so is water. i know which i'd prefer!
fish have sex in water
kevinwilson
Pro maybe that's why it tastes so good?
blayka
My grandad loved weetabix too. I know the sound you are describing only too well.
This makes me somehow grateful that I don't know what tripe is.
kevinwilson
Pro tripe is the lining of a cow's stomach.
so now you know!
blayka
Yuckity yuckity bleugh!
(very popular dish around here - for some. One has to have the stomach for it, though
SeasideMan
Pro When in Turkey a couple of decades ago, my other half tried the tripe soup that was the local's treat. It was UTTERLY FOUL!
I resisted.
Tom.
kevinwilson
Pro i bet you've always regretted it, too?!
AmethystLady
Pro I digress, I have hot milk on weetabix in the winter lol............never tried tripe and don't think I ever will! lol
kevinwilson
Pro i think you'll survive quite well without it!
AmethystLady
Pro I will sooooooooo take your word for it lol.
hot milk on weetabix in winter is good, especially with some chocolate spread!
tripe = vomit inducing experience never to be tried!
x
kevinwilson
Pro weetabix and chocolate?
i'm almost tempted ...
xx
Zappy5971
Well? I love mushed up weetabix, I guess it's personal taste. BUT I once accidentally ordered tripe in France, and I'm tellin ya. If it was the only thing left to eat, I'll die of malnutrition. YUK. Cows innards? I don't thing so!! although I do eat meat, so really do I have a moral dilemma here? Ah f*ck it who cares..................................
kevinwilson
Pro i'd rather eat grass ...
Zappy5971
Ermmmm. I'd rather smoke it? But that is entirely another conversation isn't it? .................
kevinwilson
Pro cows eat it, so i'll bow to their superior judgement.
I quite like my weetabix sloopy
kevinwilson
Pro don't worry, i'll still talk to you!
xx
jenray
Pro Ray has Oatabix now but used to always have Weetabix with hot milk...now he has the first with honey every morning...it's actually really nice...HLOL...but tripe is disgusting, my most massive failure in a meal...bought it once and put a tomato sauce on it...it stank and was the most revolting thing I've ever tried...My Mum though could cook it properly with milk and onions and we did eat it as kids...
GBHs...XXX
Zappy5971
Jen
We once bought trip for the dog, and we couldn't keep it in the house. It STANK. How anyone can eat the stuff (even dawg) is beyond me. I guess you need to be VERY hungry.........
jenray
Pro We had to air the whole house...the worse smell though is fish caught near a sewage outlet...you would not believe how much they stink...and it's not until you start cooking them that you really get the full stench...a friend, unfortunately, went fishing off the coast and very kindly gave us some...we all nearly threw up just on the smell...LOL...GBHs...XXX
Zappy5971
Honey I know. When I was a child I attended school in Grimsby for a while. The smell of rotting fish on the spring air is something a person will never forget. YUK!! Surprised I can still eat it!
jenray
Pro Well rotting healthy fish might be bad but when your house smelled like a sewer in every room when your frying a small fish...I don't even want to think what those fish lived on... GBHs...XX
kevinwilson
Pro it was a good cheap meal, but i reckon if supermarkets don't stock it as a ready meal, i'll stick to chicken drumsticks!
xx
EllieGant
My grandad liked a chocolate bar called, I think, Caramac. If he'd liked tripe, I would have run away from home. So there.
kevinwilson
Pro you're a good judge.
i'm sure i've heard of caramac, but can you still buy it?!
Yes you can, but there are very few shops that sell it these days, much to my personal annoyance.
kevinwilson
Pro really? maybe it will be worth a google search - i'll let you know how i get on.
I know I had some a few weeks ago from a small newsagent's in Camberley.
He was only about 5' 2"...
kevinwilson
Pro
that's terrible!
My speciality. 
kevinwilson
Pro you can buy caramac online at aquarterof.co.uk
Or for an instant fix, find a small newsagent...
I've just wiki'd it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramac
Still being made on Tyneside. 
kevinwilson
Pro life is good.
cheers!
MissyMouse
I am still traumatised by nan cooking tripe and onions in some milky type of gravy!
Oh my god, I want to heave at thought of it!
xx
kevinwilson
Pro it was so popular, wasn't it? my dad really believed it was like a health food.
i told him i'd rather be ill.
xx
playwrite27
My dad used to eat a sandwich meat from the local deli, called "blood and tongue"--which looked and smelled as horrid as it sounds! I couldn't even stand looking at it, and had to avert my eyes, when mum bought it. Bleh! Thankfully, no one makes it or sells it, any longer.
kevinwilson
Pro oh hell - that sounds even worse than tripe!
trintrin1x
My dad liked tripe *bleugh*
He knew a guy that worked in an abourtouir and he used to get ox tails off him,and that was nice! xx
trintrin1x
Oh and 'Potted Heid'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese
xx
kevinwilson
Pro potted heid sounds marginally worse than 'brawn', which is what english people call it! xx
trintrin1x
I liked the salty jelly on it! xx
kevinwilson
Pro it's tasty, isn't it? have a lovely day, won't you? xx
kevinwilson
Pro some people get all the best perks, don't they?! xx
TRIPE???? 
isn't that the smelly stuff that comes in dog food tins??? 
My Mother used to eat really stinky fish on toast. The smell and look of them made me feel so ill! I'm a vegetarian now lol
kevinwilson
Pro i think you've got the right idea! i think it was just the look of tripe that made me gag, but then when it was smothered in warm, smelly milk, it was enough to turn any stomach!!
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