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Anyone know what meat is attached to this caul fat?

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Guykit

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I ordered some caul fat from the butcher. When it was delivered it is in long pieces attached to a meat which looks a bit like a tongue! Not what I was expecting - don't even know what animal it is. Anyone seen anything like this before?

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2 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

Looks like a spleen to me.  I know nothing of large animals so it's just a guess but it makes some sense given the anatomy.

 

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Used to call it "beef melt" when I was growing up.  Cut them up for cat food.  Bloody damn piece of meat it was. And the cat was a miserable spoiled thing.  Too good for anything that came in a can.....

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I am curious as to why people are thinking it is spleen. The spleen is a viscus, its parenchyma is spongy and trabecular and there is no "muscle" like what is on that piece of meat.

 

In regards to the OP, I am not sure of the answer. The caul, from my best guess looks to be omenta. In the human the greater omentum attaches the to the greater curvature of the stomach and the Spleen (as it forms from the dorsal mesogastrium) and in adults, attaches to the anteroinferior aspect of the traverscolon (though I don't know if such an event occurs in bovines). As that piece of meat looks like muscle....I would say it is some part of the abdominal wall or a pre-vertebral muscle. Although that is on the basis that it is greater omentum...which is just a guess

 

Edit: Wow...probably should have zoomed in...guess it is spleen after all. From the thumbnails it looked like Skeletal muscle...my bad

 

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28 minutes ago, Mendel C-k said:

I am curious as to why people are thinking it is spleen. The spleen is a viscus, its parenchyma is spongy and trabecular and there is no "muscle" like what is on that piece of meat

 

I'm not sure what you are defining as "muscle" but the capsule that surrounds the spleen is a rather tough fibrous layer that includes smooth muscle cells.   In some species the smooth muscle in the splenic capsule contracts in response to stress.

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15 minutes ago, Guykit said:

thanks to everyone for their replies - I can see now that it is spleen. I now have about 20 of them! Any recipes/uses other than cat or dog food?

 

THIS may be of interest to you. I had the crostini many years ago and liked it, but, that was veal spleen.

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