Are Y'all Familiar With These Parts?
Trivia
While I consider myself somewhat of an adventurous eater, I do have my limits. I've sampled some of the um, uh, ahem interesting parts of the pig. But can't say any were delicacies that I sought frequently thereafter (except for bacon).
I think folks often figured ways to use every pork part out of necessity vs. preference. Let's dress up the guts and give it a cool name no one will ever connect to the anatomy - CHITTLINS! (and stop with the corporate spelling of chitterlings.) Over the decades when money was hard to come by, it was likely far easier to stretch the food options as far as possible.
Call me elitist if you will, but I can now afford NOT to eat some of those more choice parts. Bacon - love it. Sausage - enjoy it here and there. Pork tenderloin - tremendous. Pieces and parts and spices shoved into casings - ehh, in the right situation I'm there. But the rest of it? Fuhgetaboutit.
But I did have a co-worker who was more midwestern than southern - he was from Kansas City. He used to have me in stitches with stories of his upbringing. He said his family went whole hog on eating the pig. Figured a way to consume it all. He used to say "We ate it from the rooter to the tooter."
