I work is a shop that sells pig snouts. I noticed it the other day whilst window shopping at 'Hooves'. 'Hooves' is a specialist emporium devoted to all things hoovey. Arranged in the window are hooves for every ocassion. Horses hooves (of course) cows hooves, the hooves of goats, gazelle, sheep, you name it they've got it. Some of the hooves were fashioned into tasteful ornaments that would grace any living room. Others were formed into vessels for the safe soaking of things such as false teeth overnight, or say in a matching pair of fawn's hooves, contact lenses. I understand an attempt was made to hollow out an unusual casserole dish from the hoof of a waterbuffalo but apparently it melted and stuck the oven door shut. That particular line failed shortly before the Hooves stock exchange disaster when gum futures went belly up. Thankfully the business survived, as does the shop motto, 'Your never alone with a hoof.'
The pig snout thing is curious though so I went in and was confronted with an embarrassment of riches, in the pig snout arena that is. There were toffee pig snouts on sticks, frozen pig snouts dipped in flavoured yoghurt. Pig snout shavings soaked in maple syrup. Pig snout glace for the decoration of cakes. Candied piglet snouts arranged as necklaces that children could wear and eat at the same time. Two pig snouts tied fashionably with silk proved popular with ten pin bowlers as a means of keeping fingers toasty. Behind the counter stood glass jars bulging with pig snout joy but my eye was drawn to the caramelled pig snout brittle as I'm particularly fond of brittle. I purchased half a pound of this pig snout heaven, this dialectic of deliciousness, for everyone knows once the brittle is gone the chewing goes on. Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmmmmmmmmm...
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Is it made from real, true pig's snout? Or is it just made to look like pig's snout. I dunno, just asking...
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Truly they were pigs snouts. Dark brown and tough to chew. Honest.
Well, folks here eat a thing called pepperpot, they make it with cows hooves. Well scrubbed and all. It has a gluey-gummy texture.
There's an old Northern English Dish called cow heel stew which I've never tasted but a friend of mine used to talk about. She said it was sticky and gluey and gummy and as a child she liked it. Her uncle used to cook the dish and would say before eating, "This'll put velvet on your back!". A saying as odd as the dish itself.
Pigs trotters were a favourite dish when I lived in County Durham Dan, but I never tried them. :-) Hooves and snouts, oh no, couldn't go in there, and baby ones from bambi *sob*
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