Vegetarian intestines

[beccaboo]

Here the intestines are in their packet: note the large, cunningly coiled heap of intestines in the photo.

Here's what they actually looked like: sparse, and disappointingly pre-cut.

And here's a tasty plate of vegetarian intestines, fried up with shallots, tomatoes, chiles, and basil! My mother, my dog, and I liked them, but my daughter did not.

[hathor]

Well you certainly made them look a whole better than the package!

[cakewalk]

Oy, my kishkes!

[Al_Dente]

Here's what they actually looked like: sparse, and disappointingly pre-cut.

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I'm quite hungover this morning. I didn't need to see that.

[Carrot Top]

Congratulations on your bravery and intrepid determination and not least, your cooking skills. It turned out looking very tasty!

[Carrot Top]

On a related note, I picked up some pork sprouts and beef blossoms at the store the other day. Any idea on how to prepare?

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Pork sprouts and beef blossoms are usually only found in untended pastures, and are few and far between, as most are trodden upon and snapped right into oblivion under the animal's hooves.

Handle carefully and wear a mask while cooking.

Let us know how it tastes, please.

P.S. I am also selling tickets to a very special snipe hunt if you are interested...

Edited September 10, 2004 by Carrot Top (log)

[jetsie]

Congratulations. You made them look tasty! What a before and after picture --perfect for an extreme food makeover show.

I asked my SO (Vietnamese) if he had ever encountered vegetarian intestines, and he hadn't, but he came up with a theory that maybe it's something you might cook on certain holy days when meat was not allowed, but you had a fierce hankering for intestines. I bet that it's something you would eat mainly for the texture.

[eunny jang]

The finished product looked beautiful. The picture on the package looked....creepy. Creepiest of all was they way they went out of their way to coil them up and make them look extra realistic in that entrails-spilling-from-a-recently-disemboweled-creature way.

[Malawry]

You really took one for the team, didn't you, Beccaboo? I'm impressed.

My esteemed spouse and I, who are both former vegetarians, had a good chuckle over the existence of this product. In all the years I didn't eat meat, intestines were NOT among the foods I missed. I missed bacon, hamburgers, steak, fried chicken--but never intestines!

[Misa]

You know, I was a vegetarian for a long time and NEVER did I think "Goodness. I'm wish I had some intestines to chew on."

And the way they had them curled up on the package to look ultra-realistic?!? It looked very very weird.

[beccaboo]

You know, I was a vegetarian for a long time and NEVER did I think "Goodness. I'm wish I had some intestines to chew on."

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Maybe intestines are really popular in Taiwan, where these ones were manufactured....

They did turn out pretty well--my mother wanted me to write down the recipe, so I could replicate it in the future.

[Swisskaese]

Maybe intestines are really popular in Taiwan, where these ones were manufactured....

They did turn out pretty well--my mother wanted me to write down the recipe, so I could replicate it in the future.

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I just got back yesterday from Taiwan and I had something different that they told me was vegeterian intestines. They were made of tofu, gray with specks of something and smelled, looked and tasted like what one would think stuffed intestines would smell and taste like. All I can say is that I did not like them and it took all of my strength to swallow them and smile without offending my host.

The dish also had multi-colored strips of tofu that were suppose to be vegetarian squid.