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Title: Fried Brain Sandwiches
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Published: Feb 28, 2009
Author: Wikipedia
Post Date: 2009-02-28 08:57:30 by Turtle
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A fried-brain sandwich is generally a sandwich with sliced calves' brains on sliced bread. Thinly sliced fried slabs on white toast became a ubiquitous menu item in St. Louis, Missouri, after the rise of the city's stockyards in the late 1880s, although demand there has so dwindled that only a handful of eating places still offer them. But they remain popular in the Ohio River valley, where they are served heavily battered on hamburger buns. In Evansville, Indiana, they are still offered at a couple of "Mom and Pop" eateries, specifically the Hilltop Inn, and remain a favorite culinary treat featured at the city's annual West Side Nut Club Fall Festival. The rise of incidents of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease" since the late 20th century will likely further diminish the remaining appeal of this curious regional dish. Brains from cows over 30 months old at slaughter are no longer permitted in human food in the United States (Hefling, 2004). Some restaurants have taken to serving pigs' brains instead of cow brains due to BSE concerns. But as pigs' brains are substantially smaller than cows' brains, the amount of preparation required for each sandwich increases. Each brain must be cleaned before being sliced and pigs' brains produce fewer slices. Pig's brains are also much higher in cholesterol at over 1,000 mg per ounce.
Poster Comment: Turtle is from the St. Louis area and remembers seeing signs for brain sandwiches on buildings.
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#1. To: Turtle (#0)
When I was a kid we would sometimes eat pig brains fried in corn meal, I liked it and still do though I haven't eaten it since high school. I don't know whether it was my father or my stepmother who came up with that idea, she was from Germany and cooked some strange foods, though my father liked them too. My father liked all kinds of organ meats so I preferred eating at my best friend's house whose mother cooked stuff I liked. Kidneys and cow's tongue were the worst.
Cupcake, St. Louis was settled by the French and has many French names, but was taken over by the Germans and their horrible Hannibal Lector-type food -- brains, livers, testicles, hearts, kidneys, blood sausage. When I was 12 I developed a taste for braunswager but didn't realize until years later it was mostly liver. Fermented, probably. It's possible to still buy testicles and brains at the Soulard Market right south of downtown St. Louis.
I did, too...amazingly...and then decided, once i knew what it was...that it and everything else described above should not be considered edible. However, in the UK, they pretty much eat it all right to and including the tongue which they can prepare deliciously..so they say. In fact a UK friend is given 7 tongue free by the local farmer if she prepares them (good cook) and gives the farmer back 3 of the ones prepared. No waste.
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#4. To: Turtle, diana (#3)
When I was 12 I developed a taste for braunswager but didn't realize until years later it was mostly liver.
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