Offal Quotes

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.

My mom is Asian and loves all of the throwaway parts of the animal, so she actually thanks me for saving her the neck and other parts.

I genuinely like haggis. Everybody told me I was supposed to hate it, but I really did enjoy it.

Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

Nobody needs a chitlin.

To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.

I'm a great believer in trying things, so I've eaten witchetty grubs, a mountain frog, ostrich and alligator. I like tongue, I like brains and tripe.

I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.

I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.

I certainly don't eat raw bison liver on a regular basis.

Have I tried a black pudding? I'll eat anything - I'm not finicky - but that's not to say it takes any courage to eat black puddings because I find them delicious.

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic.

Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.

My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.

I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.

I eat like a pig. Tripe is the only thing I won't eat.

Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.

The problem with prime beef is that there are so many people out there selling offal. So you don't know when you're going eat a shitty gangster movie. Because everybody knows there's good stuff to be involved in.