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OiGirl
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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: Stir-fried slurried pig brains--what is this dish? |
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HEALTH
A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota
By DENISE GRADY
Published: February 5, 2008
Officials are trying to figure out why workers at a meat plant were stricken with a strange neurological illness.
As each head reached the end of the table, a worker would insert a metal hose into the foramen magnum, the opening that the spinal cord passes through. High-pressure blasts of compressed air then turned the brain into a slurry that squirted out through the same hole in the skull, often spraying brain tissue around and splattering the hose operator in the process.
The brains were pooled, poured into 10-pound containers and shipped to be sold as food � mostly in China and Korea, where cooks stir-fry them, but also in some parts of the American South, where people like them scrambled up with eggs. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05pork.html?ex=1359867600&en=8963fa660fb20f05&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Does anyone know what this dish is called? I'd like to avoid it... |
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kimchikowboy
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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When I was a kid, brains-n-eggs was always our very early morning fishing/hunting breakfast. It was my Dad's culinary specialty.
Fried brain sandwiches are also a specialty in Evansville, Indiana, next time you pass through, though those may be beef brains. |
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Kimchieluver
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure it is pig brains.. either way I have eaten both. A lot of people that grow up on ranches eat them. They aren't that bad either and if you ask your local supermarket in the US or Canada they will often sell you them. Now about the disorder. Everything is okay if taken into moderation .. however raw brain splatter probably is very bad for one's health. I have worked in a slaughter house and those on the slaughtering floor often go a bit crazy after a while. That's why they are rotated. Killing cows all day for 6 months straight doesn't help you sleep at night.
brains - cooked --- no problem
brains -- uncooked -- who knows what nasty stuff can happen to you. |
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samd
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd try it. Can't be worse than gopchang, and that stuff is pretty good. |
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Mebertz
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Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds like a kind of scrapple to me, which is the inside of the pigs head, plus heart, lungs, and any other bits that are formed into a loaf. It's like headcheese, if you've tried that. Pretty nasty tasting stuff. I think it would go over big here.
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CeleryMan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| Lack of beef + Improvisation. Koreans make it work. We're on some "if it bleeds we can eat it" type *ish. |
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marlow
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| I heard it's good for stamina. |
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Chris Kwon
Joined: 23 Jan 2008
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchieluver wrote: |
Are you sure it is pig brains.. either way I have eaten both. A lot of people that grow up on ranches eat them. They aren't that bad either and if you ask your local supermarket in the US or Canada they will often sell you them. Now about the disorder. Everything is okay if taken into moderation .. however raw brain splatter probably is very bad for one's health. I have worked in a slaughter house and those on the slaughtering floor often go a bit crazy after a while. That's why they are rotated. Killing cows all day for 6 months straight doesn't help you sleep at night.
brains - cooked --- no problem
brains -- uncooked -- who knows what nasty stuff can happen to you. |
This post was rather interesting |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| I read the full article this morning. Gross. |
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Roch
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:27 am Post subject: Re: Stir-fried slurried pig brains--what is this dish? |
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| OiGirl wrote: |
| New York Times wrote: |
HEALTH
A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota
By DENISE GRADY
Published: February 5, 2008
Officials are trying to figure out why workers at a meat plant were stricken with a strange neurological illness.
As each head reached the end of the table, a worker would insert a metal hose into the foramen magnum, the opening that the spinal cord passes through. High-pressure blasts of compressed air then turned the brain into a slurry that squirted out through the same hole in the skull, often spraying brain tissue around and splattering the hose operator in the process.
The brains were pooled, poured into 10-pound containers and shipped to be sold as food � mostly in China and Korea, where cooks stir-fry them, but also in some parts of the American South, where people like them scrambled up with eggs. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05pork.html?ex=1359867600&en=8963fa660fb20f05&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Does anyone know what this dish is called? I'd like to avoid it... |
Hormel markets quite low-quality bacon in South Korea. You could pick some up in the Namdaemun Market: two packages for 10,000 won.
I wonder if it's mostly descendants of slaves in the South who eat this egg-brain meal. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think so. |
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