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Dear Reader,
My email box was filled with responses, and from my count, the tongues won!
(If you missed my column about the boiled tongue dinner,
go to: http://tinyurl.com/boiled01-11-12 )
From my Email Bag:
"We used to eat tongue when I was a kid. I'm sure my mother peeled off the taste buds before serving it. Inside is a muscle, so it's meat. It isn't bad, although I haven't had it for over 50 years and I wouldn't eat it now, knowing what it is."-Jan Busche
"Oh Suzanne...your column about boiled tongue brought back memories. My dad worked as a butcher when I was growing up. Many times he would bring home pieces of meat that you could not find in the meat case of the local grocery store. I remember opening meat wrappers and finding tongue inside. Yuck! My mom never cooked the tongue, but my grandmother would. Of course none of the kids would eat it! Thanks for bringing back memories."--Elaine Schwendeman
"Was it a sharp tongue? Or a sassy one?"--Vicki Huber
"I enjoy reading your daily column every day but today is definitely one of the most thought provoking and humorous ones to date. I cannot imagine that sign in a restaurant nor anyone actually wanting to eat a tongue. I wonder what it would taste like?"--Betty Warner
"Personally, as a kid, one of my favorite school lunches was tongue sandwich! Mom would cook one for dinner, then use the remainder for sandwiches during the week. Not bad! Love to read with you Suzanne."--Joyce
"I'm sure you have already heard this, but beef tongue is quiet good. My Mom use to make a stew from tongue in a red tomato sauce. The first time she made it--boiled--us kids where mortified. We didn't want to eat the cow's tongue!!! We would eat every other part of the cow (almost) but not the tongue. Back then you didn't get something else if you didn't like what was for dinner, so we tentatively ate it and found it isn't so bad. The next time my Mom made it, after boiling it she cut it into pieces and put it in the tomato gravy with veggies and my brothers where none the wiser. It tasted like beef stew. Try it sometime, you might be surprised."--Gayle
"Oh, Suzanne. Beef tongue is a traditional Jewish dish, so I would imagine that there is some interest in it in Florida. You're such a good cook that I'm a little disappointed to hear you bash something that you've never even tried! I would like to challenge you to cook (and try) tongue. It tastes like tender beef, and no, you don't eat the surface skin."--Suzanne Meister
(Suzanne replies)
I'm adventurous and love to try new things, but since there isn't time to experience every little thing life has to offer, I think I'll pass on this one.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@EmailBookClub.com
www.MuffinsandMayhem.com
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