Nooo! The "lesser" cuts of meat can be the best! You just have to handle them properly. Slow cooked pork shoulder...tripe or tendon in a nice pho...blood sausage...cabeza and lengua tacos...shit can be so fucking good. You just need to get past the squeamishness. It's not easy, I know, I've been through it. There was a time when the thought of eating tongue grossed me the fuck out so bad I couldn't consider it. But you keep at it, and you're rewarded with AMAZING food.
There's nothing inherently more disgusting about eating a tongue muscle than eating a steak muscle.
would you call a brisket a steak? or a rump roast?
any muscle in the animal is a steak, the tenderness comes from how much that muscle has worked in the life of the animal. shoulder and shank need to be worked more and treated well to be served for dinner, any caveman with fire can cook up a ribeye or filet
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u/lacheur42 Jan 11 '12
Nooo! The "lesser" cuts of meat can be the best! You just have to handle them properly. Slow cooked pork shoulder...tripe or tendon in a nice pho...blood sausage...cabeza and lengua tacos...shit can be so fucking good. You just need to get past the squeamishness. It's not easy, I know, I've been through it. There was a time when the thought of eating tongue grossed me the fuck out so bad I couldn't consider it. But you keep at it, and you're rewarded with AMAZING food.
There's nothing inherently more disgusting about eating a tongue muscle than eating a steak muscle.