So I was eating pig's tail that
By cynthiann
@cynthiann (18602)
Jamaica
August 24, 2010 3:42pm CST
had been cooked with red peas (kidney beans) last night for supper. The salted pig's tail had been cut up in to small pieces and most of the salt washed away before being stewed with the peas. Lots of onions, hot pepper, garlic,bits of carrots and potatoes and this was served over white rice.
Now when I first came to this country I was appalled that anyone would even consider wanting to cooks a pig's tail let alone eat it. But do you know what? I have come to love it and it is one of my favourite meals.
I still draw the line at eating goat although I eat mutton from sheep. Inconsistent? Yep!
Have you ever got to love a dish over the years that at first you were reluctant to try?
I still draw the line at eating goat although I eat mutton from sheep. Inconsistent? Yep!
Have you ever got to love a dish over the years that at first you were reluctant to try?3 people like this
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
24 Aug 10
I am sure it is good, have never tried it. The only thing i wouldn't use to eat was turnips but like them now. My grandmother loved them & i would go in her house & smell them cooking & think yuck, lol. I don't know what made me start liking them because i don't usually try things i don't think i would like.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
25 Aug 10
I hated turnips as a child but now I love them boiled and then add some butter and black pepper on them.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
25 Aug 10
That's the way i cook them to. I do add some sugar to them to.
@juliusports (274)
• Philippines
25 Aug 10
I love to eat pig tail but if its cooked fried crispy... I haven't tried other means of pig tail being cooked. I wish i could try tasting stewed pig tail too.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
25 Aug 10
The jello shots!
I tell you that it would have taken a few jello shots to eat it when I first came out here
I tell you that it would have taken a few jello shots to eat it when I first came out here
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
25 Aug 10
Oh I would be like you but instead of being bold and trying it I would have definately passed on it.....can't think of anything that I have aquired a taste for after trying it. I tend to eat almost anything....and that's part of the problem! LOL
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
25 Aug 10
The peas tasted wonderful in the pork gravy so I ate that alone with the rice. It took many years to try a piece of the meat but it tasted just like pork (which it is). I know that I am now sounding Irish (which I am by blood). The bottom line is that I now love it.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
25 Aug 10
I am easily grossed out but over the years I got to eat it and now do not think about what part of the pig;s anatomy it came from
@bachhoan88 (1)
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25 Aug 10
You really do not have to taste like but i also want to try it.
Thanks because introduction about it
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
25 Aug 10
I likes the oeas cooked in the pork tasting gravy and then eventually tried the meat
@ladysakurax (1161)
• Canada
25 Aug 10
When mom came to Canada in the 70's, she said that nobody ate chicken wings. My mom looked for that in the supermarket but there wasn't any. Garlic was sold but it wasn't popular. But now, chicken wings are everywhere and they even made a sort of garlic pills...I even heard that famous cook in europe cerated garlic ice cream... When i was young, i didn't want to try out frogs. So one day my mom lied to me by saying it was chicken. I finished it and even wet to get more. It did taste like chicken and I am craving for some of those right now 
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
25 Aug 10
My husband ate frog legs but I could not touch that one at all. It took me years to eat the pork in the stewed peas
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
25 Aug 10
I couldn’t eat that! Don’t get me wrong; I don’t for a minute doubt the fact that it is probably delicious but psychologically I could not put it to my lips! My sister is like me. She went to Italy for a holiday and was invited for lunch at my aunt’s house. They had a beautiful roast which she thoroughly enjoyed and had two helpings. Of course the family omitted to tell here that what she consumed was in fact rabbit! She was so horrified when she found out that she now gags at the thought of the same meal although she loved it so much at the time! I can’t help but be affected by what it is that I’m actually eating...I guess I am not too adventurous in regards to food!
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
25 Aug 10
I really understand where you are coming from.It sounded disgusting to me too at first but then I loved the taste of the stewed peas so would eat that only but then one thing led to another........
I doid eat rabbit as a child but now ? No way!
I doid eat rabbit as a child but now ? No way!1 person likes this
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
27 Aug 10
Well, that doesn't sound like it would be too different from eating soup beans. Now, as far as things that I was reluctant to try, there have been a lot of things. The first one that comes to my mind is venison. However, in the time since then, I've come to love it. However, there are a lot of times that the venison hasn't been cooked properly and in those cases I really don't care for it because it tastes way too gamey to me.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
28 Aug 10
The stewed peas are wonderful and I just ate the peas for years before trying a piece of meat. But is what it is - only a piece of stewed pork meat - albeit from a different part of the pig.Not sure that I could eat venison though - I am really conservative. Out here curried goat is the main dish but I cannot eat goat - but I eat lamb!
Not sure that I could eat venison though - I am really conservative. Out here curried goat is the main dish but I cannot eat goat - but I eat lamb!