Re: Dixon s pork pies


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Posted by andyb on July 24, 2005 at 12:26:55 from 81.131.187.31 user beardbiter.

In Reply to: Re: Dixon s pork pies posted by Jock on July 23, 2005 at 16:25:23:

Jock wrote, "I note that no British or American readers have joined this thread so I assume that they are all horrified at the thought of eating jellied trotters." Well you could by both pigs' trotters and cow heel (cows' heels?) on Yarmouth Market when I was last there but that was thirty years ago. Although offal is allegedly trendy in the kind of metropolitan eateries I only read about there has been a definite growth in squeamishness in Britain during my lifetime. I suspect it has something to do with pigs' trotters being associated with both the reality of eating dead animals and with blood and guts more generally. Blood and guts in turn are associated with dirt, which is in opposition with cleanliness, safety and respectability. Purely theoretical speculation on my part of course...


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