I bought it at a (local but long gone) ephemera collectible store called Uncle Mame in San Francisco. Sadly, the can, although shrink-wrapped, is bulging ominously (it has one of those super-convenient pull-tab tops, for all your on-the-go brain consuming goodness) so I have to keep it in a clear acrylic sealed box in case it explodes.
Actually, I hope it does explode. "OWWWW! My Brains! OWWWWWWW" nom nom nom...
]]>IT'S WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WORSE THAN YOU COULD EVER POSSIBLY IMAGINE.
The very worst part was slurping up the milk.
Sweet baby jesus.
]]>I would hardly call it popular in Cantonese cuisine since I have a hard time finding it.
]]>You get a halthy dose of them every time you eat hot dogs and sausages. Enjoy.
]]>@Charlotte Rae's Web: ...Whoa. Lighthouses, the Krispy Kreme Challenge, AND slightly irregular bacon??? I can't believe I haven't visited this place yet!
]]>Here's a tiny representation of it on the Web:
I've never read anything so consistently hilarious.
In Issue No. 6 (1996), Lukas found "Armour Pork Brains with Milk Gravy." He cooked them in a skillet with some oil. And he ate them. For, you know, scientific purposes.
His answer: "...(I) tentatively brought a forkful to my mouth. A few moments later my cats were enjoying the rest of the brains and I was working on a new theory. In short, brains taste nasty."
I'm not quite sure where Paul is today (sources say he's writing for ESPN.com), but he and Beer Frame are sorely missed. If ever content had a place on the Internet today, it's that zine.
]]>(Man, I love Templar AZ.)
]]>The perfect gift for a lactose intolerant Jew with a heart condition.
]]>Good lord. I thought the Hungry Man dinners were bad, but that just puts everything in a different context.
]]>You guys are such nerds. I can't believe I actually called someone else a nerd, but it's true.
]]>Your scientific mumbo jumbo actually made it even more unappetizing. There is just something about the word myelin that kinda makes me want to spew chunks.
]]>@JulesNoctambule: Nahunta Pork Center! If you've never been, GO. I didn't buy anything but it was an experience. Nahunta- where PORK IS KING!
]]>@Farquar: I live in North Carolina. My previous stepfather was from a very rural area, and he ate this. Typically on crackers. I have watched him do it. They sell it at a lot of rural gas stations too, btw.
]]>http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/pigbrainmystery.html
Yep -- to process pig brains for consumption, they blow 'em out of the skull with compressed air... and the workers who inhale the bits fall mysteriously ill. Guess you can eat it, but not breathe it.
]]>No? Then I think you should try it once before knocking it.
/Great, now I'm channeling my mother.
]]>This is a million times more horrifying than the Chicken in A Can I remember also posted about on this site...
]]>BLLLEECHHHHH!!!!!!
]]>If you don't want to eat the brains, don't eat the legs.
I've lived in Tennessee, Kentucky Virginia, and currently North Carolina. That is a pretty diverse taste of the south. And I lived in relatively rural areas.
I've NEVER known anyone that has eaten this. I've never seen it on a grocery store shelf. (granted, I've never looked)
]]>@Charlotte Rae's Web: There were only two grocery stores resonably close to me. A Winn Dixie and a Food Lion. They both carried it. It was just one of those things that tripped me out everytime I saw it. I did not mean it to be a bash on NC in general. I enjoyed my time there but needed to move on. I still own a home there.
]]>@Charlotte Rae's Web: Sorry I didn't mean to offend. NC is a wonderful place. I was in Raeford and it was simply a bit to rural for my tastes.
]]>@JulesNoctambule: @Con Seannery is apparently an ADMIN...: I didn't mean to offend. I actually still own a home there. N.C. is a nice place.
]]>Casu marzu.
(All standard google warnings apply.)
]]>our coven always insisted on traditional, live, warm, still-living, scoop-from-the-squealing-skull, family values. i hope these were ar least in the "religion" aisle of the store.
]]>I posted below that on the way to the beach here in NC there is a sign for a Pork Outlet... The idea of defective pork products - which can be creepy already - is just off the charts funny to me.
]]>@failurate: That was my first thought! This is because I've got prions on the brain...hehe.
]]>@AstroPig7: I find it funny that we have an astropig posting in this thread.
Run away, little piggy! Run away!
]]>My parents travelled from New England to North Carolina for a relative's funeral once. When the family gathered for food afterwards, talked turned to regional foods. My father mentioned that he didn't like grits and the response from a cousin was classic:
"You don't like grits? What do you use to soak up your brains and eggs?"
]]>Reminds me more of Lorenzo's Oil than a wiki article.
]]>@Trai_Dep: "Grosser?"
]]>Cleveland here, and I've never ever heard of a brain sandwich. I'll blame it on Indiana, though.
]]>@Con Seannery is apparently an ADMIN...: This is why I don't fly, this is why I make my own pizza, this is why I don't shop at Best Buy, etc. etc.
]]>@relax_guy: It's true, it's true. Last time I was in Toulouse I had some nice cervelle de veau - I was surprised they had an American dish like that on the menu, but I wasn't complaining.
]]>Nothing in my Diebetic Cookbook says I can't eat it. But still...
]]>Seriously, who eats this crap?
]]>And,
When they say, "Squeal like a pig," do they mean before or after its brains are scooped out?
]]>Look what they approved for your consumption.
]]>This may be worse than my previously thought of worst food, namely potted meat.
]]>I was always under the impression that it was something of a midwestern thing. I know brain sandwiches have historically been popular in the Ohio/Indiana area.
]]>Mad Pig Disease?
]]>I think I've found my miracle diet! I've already lost 5 pounds in the 30 seconds I spent reading this article!
]]>you have to look in the right place. or the horribly, horribly wrong place! it's next to the corned beef hash and spam
]]>to see some of the scariest meat products on earth - check out the canned meat sections at your nearest asian grocer or any grocery store in the south.
]]>I don't eat pork. And I'm glad.
]]>Brains 'n' Eggs
Ingredients
2-1/2 Tablespoons bacon grease
4 eggs
1/3 cup whole milk
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 can (5 ounce) pork brains in gravy (Rose Brand preferred)
Melt bacon grease in an iron skillet on low heat. Add pork brains to heated grease. Stir with a fork. Add salt and pepper and stir. Whisk eggs and milk together. Increase heat and add egg mixture to brains. Scramble to desired consistency. Serve immediately over toast. For a truly southern dish, serve with grits and apple butter.
]]>Come on. That's only like eating 10 sticks of butter. Amateurs.
]]>@Charlotte Rae's Web: I make a point of looking for it when I'm in grocery stores outside my normal upstate NY area. I don't want to eat it; I just want it for my collection of nauseating canned foods (mushy peas, haggis, squid in ink, etc). We used to be able to find it with the potted meat circa 2000, and one of my friends had a can on his desk... he'd periodically hold it up to his roommate's ear and shake it. (Eiwwwww.) Now I never see it around.
]]>I love my backwards home.
]]>I've lived here my entire life and I might have seen it a few times but I've never tried it or known anyone who did.
]]>I wanna know where you found these. I haven't seen a can of that stuff for years! I've always been too scared to read the nutrition info on the back. Good Lord.
I'm from Kentucky if you couldn't tell by the fact that this has actually entered my mouth hole.
]]>As a side note, North Carolinian here.
]]>Here is a video of the actual product
[blip.tv]
I used to have a can of this on my monitor at my previous employer; we had it labelled as "Backup Memory".
Everyone who saw it was aghast that such a thing existed, but the real shocker was when they read that label and saw that cholesterol count.
After nearly five years on the monitor, the seal on the aluminum pop-top began to deform from the inside and expand.
We got it out of the office in time to avoid a hazmat situation indoors, but the feral cats went crazy in the dumpster later that afternoon...
]]>ah, a modest proposal
]]>@dddoistutter: Braiiiinnnns! Braiiiinnnns! (Translated - "Yes! Exactly!")
]]>@floraposte: Yep, before Mad Cow Disease, there was a diner in St. Louis that served a brain sandwich. One of the more well-known photos from St. Louis shows a building with "Brains - 25ยข" painted on the side.
]]>@Borax-Johnson: Chilled monkey brains for me.
]]>My father used to eat this all the time. He died youngish, at 63, of a stroke. It's not actually the worse thing he ever ate. He ate it with scrambled eggs, it was disgusting.
]]>Aside from the health implications that as food just sounds disgusting.
]]>@sirwired: Potted Meat Food Product only has Tripe in it. Mmmmmmmmm Tripe....
]]>Like most other internal organs, or offal, the brain can serve as nourishment. This includes the brains of pigs, cattle, monkeys, and in rare circumstances, humans, or even cats, birds, or marine mammals such as whales.
(Reminds me of another favorite line in the article on Unsolved problems in Physics: "The existence of problems marked with four stars is disputed.")
]]>I don't have anything otherwise against eating brains, except for the (somewhat irrational) fear that the brains will contain prions, and I will contract some rare form of "porcine spongiform encephalopathy."
]]>Wonder what the sales numbers are? Must be significant if it's been in production all these years.
Wow. I've never seen that in stores around Boston. Where's it sold?
]]>@Starfury:
My parents raised me to not say no to a food just because of the way it looked or smelled. But my mom never offered us this stuff. So I don't know if I'd just go out of my way to find it and try it. I'm sure there's someplace here in NYC that I could find it if I get the craving for it.
In the meantime, I am going to send her his story and she what she thinks.
@kittenfoo: I am from TN and people really do eat brains and eggs, squirrel and pork. Its not so bad. I know there are others who wanted to fess up but were to scared to claim it. Don't be scared to own strange food. I saw people eat balutt( the egg with leggs) in the PI and that was alot grosser.
]]>Jesus Christ.
Is this farking real?
]]>This explains the rise in the fat zombie demographic...
]]>Why yes, I am from Tennessee. Why do you ask? *blinks*
]]>@Trai_Dep: Thats some pig
]]>Just what does one do when offered a plate of steaming pork brains by a well-meaning host? I'm pretty sure Emily Post never covered this one, but Armour has conveniently provided a built-in excuse. The brains are canned in milk gravy, giving squeamish diners the perfect opportunity to say, "Oh, brains! You know, I really do love them, but I'm lactose-intolerant -- the milk gray would give me fite. Could you pass the biscuits, please?" [web.archive.org]]]>
My label has a recipie on it.
SCRAMBLED EGGS AND BRAINS!
seriously.
yummm
zombie food.
Lord have mercy... That has to be the worst thing I've ever seen. It goes against my religion to eat anything that can see me, taste me, or remember me, so I guess I can't eat this anyway.
]]>I used to live in N.C. and found this item in virtually every grocery store. I have never been brave enough to sample it. But, scary food like this, definitely influenced my decision to move back to the West coast.
]]>On a side note, he said they were really good. But, I'm not eating them, that's for sure.
]]>Charlotte, needless to say, is NOT amused.
]]>WTF? pork brains? that is the most disgusting canned good I have ever seen in my life! I love ham, I love bacon, I love pork chops, but seriously, I'll pass on this one It's just Eeewwwwwwww!
]]>Just wanted to make sure we're clear on that (for the sake of all us non-Southern Americans).
]]>Cracking open the skull to extract the brain is the easy part once the slaughtering is done.
Add it to a simple gravy and you're done! What could be easier?
]]>you americans eat weird stuff.
]]>Everyone is who eats their pork brains in milk from a can is so lighweight. Where I come from we take a pigs brain and shove it in a cows udder and eat it raw.
You cant let the agro-giants take away your quality! Take our meals back!
]]>I prefer monkey brains in a light coconut milk broth.
Plus, they're lower in sodium, too!
]]>massive stroke with milk gravy! my arteries hurt just from reading about it!
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