Mabelline

Now I'm just amazed. Up here in frozen Billings (1*), we have Thai Orchid, NaRa Korean, & Korean Groceries, a store/restaurant combo. And all three are very good, very spicy, very delicious.

Happy New Year, fifi! I knew I should have clarified. SO gave me a hammered copper parrot statue-thingy I had admired. It's going to keep me company in the kitchen. When you live with an SO, 2 male cats, and a male rabbit, copper parrots start lookin' like good company.

I gave: Suet Puddings - 3 Homemade turtles Preserves - huckleberry and green tomato Canned corn relish and hot chowchow Tamales I got: Two Lewis And Clark Expedition cookbooks Another spice grinder for my collection A copper parrot for my kitchen A bunch of foods And my favorite food gift, a Presto Options multi-cooker. I love this thing!

Like a lamb to the slaughter. About as welcome as ants at a picnic. Just fell off a turnip wagon. Smells so bad it'd knock a buzzard off a gut wagon.

I spoke to my butcher,too. He said basically the same thing as Nick's. But I got even more confused after reading Denise_jer"s link to the oxtail soup question, because it states that experimentally infected cattle in the UK carried BSE in the bone marrow. Also,the talk about the parts of the skull said nothing about cheeks, which I just ate a couple weeks ago. Damn, we're going to end up with no 'parts', and no bones! PHOOEY-get a rope! Edit to add that I mean I probably need to consign those beef cheeks to my 'gallery of no longer', not that I was apprehensive about what's already been consumed.

Is Sottish a typo? If not, my SO and family are Sottish, also.

Add me to the taco lobby. They sound good!!

Those are great!! I'm so hungry my stomach's gnawing on my backbone. Also a nonfood one but one of my favorites when confronted with a whiner: " You'd bitch if you were hung with a new rope."

Yes, to me it's close enough to the spinal cord that you are again relying on someone's ability to keep the two things separated. So I nominate beef shanks!

That's why I was so frustrated trying to find a chart to look at that stuff. If you could see the nerves, they'd show you; theoretically, if you could place the end of the vertibrae, it would indicate the end of the nerve cord. Hell, I'm gonna call my butcher up in a little bit.

Hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. The early bird gets the worm. From soup to nuts. That's a fine kettle of fish.

I wonder what's going to happen to Red And Yellow on the commercials.Maybe they'll go to jail and have to wear stripes?

S-S-S-S-L-L-L-L-O-O-O-O-W-W-W-W....and beautiful !!!!

What was kind of weird to me was that the places I went to for bovine anatomy,etc.etc.,blah,blah,blah, really ran me around in circles trying to get an illustrated chart of musculature,nervous system,bone structure. I'm going to try a couple of other aggie-type schools. But you might be interested in this list of Diseases Acquired From Cattle that popped up all on its own from an obliging South American Veterinary School: 1)Actinomyces pyogenes 2)Anthrax 3)Brucellosis 4)Campylobacteriosis 5)Cowpox 6)Cryptosporidiosis 7)Escherichia coli O157:H7 8)European tick-borne encephalitis 9)Foot and mouth disease 10)Giardiasis 11)Leptospirosis 12)Mycobacterium bovis 13)Pseudocowpox 14)Q-fever 15)Rabies 16)Salmonellosis 17)Slow virus variant (?!? controversial) 18)Streptococcus zooepidemicus 19)Taenia saginata 20)Yersinia entirocolitica

I found it, but I'm still wondering. The phylum Chordata consists of critters with a"notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support of some stage of their development....The three features unique to chordates are: the notochord,composed of gelatinous tissue and bound by a tough membrane; a tubular nerve cord(or spinal cord), located above the notocord; and gill slits leading into the pharynx.... All have a postanal tail, that is, an extension beyond the anus of the notochord or backbone and of the bodywall musculature, containing no internal organs...In vertibrates:a backbone of bone or cartilage segments called vertibrae develops around the notochord: its upward projections partially surround the nerve cord."

Aw, geez, I'm going to have to say that tails are not spinal cord(hey, zoology was a long time ago) because of one fact-you can dock the tails of nearly any animal, and if there were spinal fluid leaking it'd be a bad thing. Plus, we have a vestigial tailbone, and there's no cord there.

If it's different from what you're talking about, could you be meaning the Chronic Wasting Disease? Oh, yeah, the guy with the elk just happened to be a bud of Ted Turner. Speaking as an aside; talking here about worrying about possible effects, I just took my little-ol-landlady her dinner and about busted my ass on some ice. So maybe I'm getting a clue to focus my worries?

Okay, what I meant was that young cattle have sweetbreads,and older cattle absorb them into their system. So I thought perhaps they just thought sweetbreads were responsible, where it might have been the brains,instead. Then, as far as worrying about the elk, I wouldn't. So far as we up here are aware, the infected herd was an isolated thing, because they were fenced( I know, so they can jump fence), and animals all around the area were spot tested. The reason I called them dorks is because brucellosis is highly contagious, and a lot of people have spent a lot of years eradicating it. Which once again made it real bad that they suspect cattle down in Wyoming of having it.

fifi, I don't think I'd be wanting to use neckbones. Assuming there's no spinal cord left in there,what's to say that the spinal cord was cleanly removed, like John Whiting said. The deal with the elk was brucellosis found in some game farm animals. The people who had them gave up on raising them (the elk)-they were from Texas- I think from the Castle, but don't quote me. Anyway, the ones who were clean were put up as a big open hunt, till they were all shot. Now they are back to raising cattle. Dorks! Ok, my edit was worse than the original; the elk came from Texas

You know, that's weird you say that, because I was wondering about them, but then thought well, since they're not present in an adult, maybe okay. But perhaps it was actually just the Brains?

WHEN PIGS FLY!

I'm just real glad some Texan did not decide it ought to be armadillo and blackeyes....Happy New Year, Hogmany, and all the others I cannot spell right !!!

One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. HE/SHE is sourer than clabbered milk. Edit to take out the one Docsconz already posted.

I fear I'd have better luck getting a Komodo before a Kamodo. They are just gorgeous. Mayhawnnaise That's good! Edit to add, these folks put their prices down, and they aren't bad!

I liked the chafing dish at the tandoori site, but they're too chicken to give you a price.