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I’m guessing the ladies have a version of this.
Via Holborn.

RE organ-based delicacies, such as tripe, poached pancreas, and my favorite – menudo – what is your personal ethics on introducing – let’s say exotic – foods to loved ones who you just know will enjoy them, despite their previously stated trepidation?
I’ve heard enough “I had no idea I was eating ____, but it was delicious!” stories to be tempted into bending the truth a bit in the name of culinary discovery, but alas can’t bring myself to serve those who’ve not consented. Persuasion via inviting aromas is often the preferred method. That and having absolutely nothing else on offer. Thoughts?

“If this serious approach to the problem doesn’t solve homelessness nothing will.”
That’s exactly the phenomenon the Goon Show used to parody with the likes of a tunnel from the House of Lords to the Folies Bergère.* Of course, it looks different; the modern establishment has different taste to the old one. But it’s still pissing taxpayers’ money up the wall.
*“But sir, I thought we were cutting down on this sinful national expenditure?”
“Of course we are! We haven’t built any lighthouses in The Strand this year. And besides, we’ve cut the tunnel estimates down to the barest essentials. There’ll only be plain silver chandeliers.”

A while ago, The Other Half was watching a documentary about street food in, I think, Thailand. One of the temptations on offer was steamed chicken feet.
Can’t say I was swayed.

Nikw211: ’ Well, that didn’t take long …’
Stock up on popcorn, there’s much, much more vicious infighting to come!

@ Sam: “few thing smell better cooking than liver and onions, few things taste worse
In my experience you have this exactly backwards.”
Kidneys are nice too when fried with onion.
Jim

One of the temptations on offer was steamed chicken feet.
Far from the worst thing eaten in Asia, and infinitely preferable to pagpag.

Now, am I correct that a less-extremist Labour Party would be far more popular with the public? And how much less extreme would it need to be to have a good chance of winning local and national elections?
They already win plenty of local elections.
Labour was historically Socialist, and the key to that was Clause IV of their constitution:

To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.

But Tony Blair knew with that the Labour Party would only ever win when the Conservatives were disastrously poor, and he altered it to read:

The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few, where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe, and where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.

He also marginalised the extreme left of the party (so much that many of them left it).
And so under him the Party had a run of victories. Labour Parties which are Blair-like social democrats are remarkably successful, including the current NZ Labour Party. The key is that they aren’t Socialist.
The current British Labour is reverting to type, with nationalisation of industry high on its list of priorities, and a love that descends to madness for public schools and the NHS. While they remain like that, they will never rule consistently.
I might add, that the Left loathe Tony Blair. He had the temerity to show them that Socialism was all that stood between them and power. The exact same party, with mostly the same people standing, won massive majorities under him.

. . . street food in, I think, Thailand. One of the temptations on offer was steamed chicken feet.
Or China.
They’re perfectly edible, nothing at all odd—A hyper extended sort of wishbone, sort of???—but then once one has had one, entirely Ehn.
Basically, after the first one, they become merely a step above jicama or eggplant, given that those and related have never achieved being anything more than edible objects for delivering some covering sauce or so.

I agree with Sam, liver and onions on the plate smells and tastes great, but the smell of it cooking is hard to take. Must be the last of the piss-tang burning off. It was a favorite for dinner when I was growing up. We weren’t rich but we ate well. Another favorite was creamed kidneys on toast.
In general I find whatever smells tasty is tasty and vice versa. Some if not all physiologists seem to confirm the two senses are strongly linked. Yet I know some people who say, for instance, they like the smell of coffee but can’t stand the taste. Which baffles me, but that’s their story.

Must be the last of the piss-tang burning off.
Liver – another animal used oil filter, but “piss-tang” ? If there is urine in a liver, the animal was very, very ill when slaughtered, and if you were eating kidneys (which can only be cooked by boiling the piss out of them) you might have thought you were eating well, but anyone who went to a butcher and and had a choice between real meat and a kidney and chose the latter, probably shouldn’t have been shopping, let alone cooking.

It’s all glamorous parties and endless babes.
So that’s what you spend our hard earned money on. 😁

@ FM Muldoon: “…anyone who went to a butcher and and had a choice between real meat and a kidney and chose the latter, probably shouldn’t have been shopping, let alone cooking.”
We kill and butcher our own steers so there’s no shopping, but a lot of cooking of prime meat that we know is clean and unadulterated – and offal too. What we don’t eat goes to the dog.
Jim

Well, that didn’t take long …
Oh, but who needs mere twit sniping when one can go straight to the lawyers?
Labour: Thornberry begins legal action over ‘stupid’ Brexit claims
WRIT HITS THE FAN! Labour in civil war as Emily Thornberry vows to sue ex-MP Caroline Flint for ‘making up s**t’
Stock up on popcorn, there’s much, much more vicious infighting to come!
Popcorn? Nah, this is going to be entertainment on the scale of calling in a team of caterers . . . .

The prime rule of first world dining when it comes to vertebrates: nothing above the first thoracic vertebra and no caudal vertebrae, nothing from either the plural or abdominal cavities, nothing below the tibia and fibula. The only exception is a survival situation; this isn’t the middle ages where the peasants only got the leftover bits the gentry had the sense not to eat.
Addendum No. 1: Yeah, the animal equivalent of a used oil filter, add “retroperitoneal” organs to my list above.
Addendum No. 2: …anyone who went to a butcher and and had a choice between real meat and a kidney and chose the latter, probably shouldn’t have been shopping, let alone cooking.
That’s food wisdom right there folks. If I had the time and money I’d have that chiseled into marble and hang it in our kitchen.
Yet I know some people who say, for instance, they like the smell of coffee but can’t stand the taste. Which baffles me, but that’s their story.
I enjoy the smell of frying eggs at breakfast but cannot stand either their taste or the way they feel in my mouth. Go figure.
RHEEEEEEEEE!!! Terrorist propaganda!
Start warming up the helicopters, I’ve about reached the end of my rope with this krep. Honestly, a children’s book about body identity is “anti-trans extremism”? We’ve reached levels of Orwell that shouldn’t be possible – “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary (extremist) act.”

I didn’t say I was a fan of Tony Blair. Unusually for a politician who won multiple elections he is pretty much universally loathed, as the effects of his decisions became apparent. I think Hitler has more fans TBH — at least he didn’t invade countries to “save” them.
My point was that he didn’t have to do much to make Labour electable. Just ditch the emotional attachment to Socialism.

As I recall Tony Blair was portrayed very favorably in “The Queen”, although may have missed nuances from far away across the Pond.