Random things.

[miraje]

1. I found cow tongues for sale in the meat section of the grocery store last night. It was one of those things that are gross yet fascinating at the same time (kinda like tv shows about plastic surgery). I mean, geez, it looked just like a dead human tongue but it was the size of my cat. One of them leaked on me. :( I can't believe people eat them.

2. I had a dream last night about being hit by a tornado. I was with my Grandma and someone else (maybe my mom?), and we took shelter in the back inventory area of a grocery store (one of the huge garage doors was open, so we drove our old beater truck right into it). One of the offices in the inventory area had a cellar-like area below it, so we took shelter there. When we came back out again our truck had been pulled out of the garage and was sitting outside (with my luggage still sitting in the back). Everything around us was totally demolished, but the store and our truck were perfectly fine. Most of my tornado dreams (yes, that's plural) involve nonsense things like that for some reason.

3. I'm going to a banquet dinner tonight on campus for the ADVANCE project, which is a group that seeks to increase diversity in university faculty positions. In the physical sciences area of academics, women definitely qualify as a minority. Normally I don't participate in that area of debate too much, but I felt the need to go since my advisor invited me. The food is free, too, and I'm sure the speakers will have some interesting things to say.

4. Talking about banquets makes me hungry.

Comments

[sweet-byrd.livejournal.com]

I remember being horrified that the butchers' section in the supermarkets in Virginia sold pigs' feet. Of course, one of those supermarkets also placed the cake mixes and frosting directly across the aisle from the tobacco products. I felt like I was in the twilight zone!

[miraje.livejournal.com]

It's admirable that butchers want every part of the animal to be useful, but I've never felt such an urgent need to become a vegetarian.

On that note, do random parts like that get ground into the hamburger we buy in the store? Maybe I'm better off not knowing...

[sweet-byrd.livejournal.com]

I really don't know.

[perdita-x.livejournal.com]

Cow tongue.. Ew. Though I'm used to seeing such things on the market - along with Tripe. That is *revolting*!

[miraje.livejournal.com]

I feel silly asking this, but what is tripe??

[perdita-x.livejournal.com]

its made from the first three stomachs of cows... it looks like a large white popped balloon - Kian says it has a similar texture and taste....

[miraje.livejournal.com]

Gross.

[falls2climb.livejournal.com]

Weird, I had a tornado dream last night too. In mine, my dad wanted us to hide in the crawl space under the house, but the opening to the crawl space was not big enough for my head to go through. (but the rest of me was fine?)

[missescargot.livejournal.com]

As gross as it sounds, cow tongue is actually really tender (probably the most used muscle in cows) and if you dont THINK about what you're eating...it can be quite good. Haha. I had it in SOB Stew in middle school.

[il-pleut.livejournal.com]

people eat tongue here at yakiniku, it's so gross XO.

my stepmother buys the ones at the grocery in the US and feeds them to her dogs. it's really good for them.