Things that sound awful, but taste great

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Fresh jalapeno tortillas, from Central Market, with crunchy peanut butter.












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Tamales + ketchup
Spanish rice + mustard
Ramen noodles + ranch-style beans (have not had this since college.....this was one experiment that wasn't too bad)

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lymph nodes and salivary glands from a pig that have been seasoned... otherwise known as Chorizo. mmmmmmm
 
Cottage cheese with chopped jalapenos (the kind you use on nachos), as a dip for fritos. One of the local dairies used to sell cottage cheese with jalapenos when I was a kid, and my mom got me hooked on eating it with fritos. A couple of years ago, I got hungry for it, so I made my own. My boys turned their noses up at it...until they tried some. Now, they're hooked, too.

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Actually very few commercially available chorizos contain that **** anymore. Garcia's Brand may still do it, but Kiolbassa, for example contains nothing but good quality pork butt (which is actually a shoulder).

I'd like to know who was the first person who ate one of those giant boogers we like to call oysters.
 
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Shill !

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Actually the cottage cheese thing intrigues me. I bet cottage cheese mixed with Chuy's creamy jalapeno salsa would be badass.
 
Nick Danger,
Why don't you view the ingredients next time you are in the local HEB. I don't remember seeing a single package that doesn't say Pork lymph nodes, salivary glands, season, salt...

I will do the same and see what I find.

Hold on. I need to edit this too... you are talking MEXICAN chorizo right? Not Spanish Chorizo. That is VERY different.
 
I've already done it. They don't sell much chorizo at the HEB's in SA other than brands like Garcia and Kiolbassa. Big outfits. I don't know what they sell at Central Market. They sell homegrown stuff at the small mexican market that may have feral hog nuts in it for all I know, but I'd venture a guess that not that many people who post on HornFans also shop at La Michoacan or Culebra Meat Market or the like. I DID say commercially available and perhaps I should have said commercially packed which is all you'll see at the mainstream markets here in SA.
 
NickDanger,
Like I said I will do the same this week. I don't know the name of the brand I buy, I just know it by the packaging, but it lists out salivary glands and lymph nodes. I will take a look as well.
At our HEB here in Temple there are several brands, probably about 5 that they sell. I wasn't calling you out or anything.
 
I didn't take any offense. I make mistakes all the time and I, too, have read plenty of labels where those little nasties are listed as ingredients. The mexican foods, some of the best tasting ones, frequently have some stuff in them that you might not ever dream of eating. The sausage and chorizo markets are being utilized by manufacturers who want to be more than a local entity and the ones that want to go into mainstream markets just don't want to have to put that stuff on their labels. Your typical big sausage maker used to have their own kill floors, feeding pens and the like. Nowadays, the big outfits buy most of their animals/meat already processed and you don't just go to the gland store and buy glands. Plus, it's not very appetizing on the labels.

My information comes from a man that I met when he was four and I was two. Days old that is. From being a westide SA local maker Kiolbassa now sells their wares in Costco in Cali and Hawaii. It's just not feasible for large outfits to make their stuff the old way.
 
Btw, I just got back from HEB and out of about 6 brands, only Garcia used glands. Even Garcia makes a Chorizo Fino without glands.
 
The ONLY brand of chorizo I will buy from here on out is Peyton's...my mother-in-law from El Paso turned me on to it...the best I've ever tasted....it's available at the HEB Plus in Round Rock, but I haven't seen it anywhere else in the Austin area

Just so this thread doesn't get too hijacked, here's another....

Macaroni N Cheese with Garlic Salt and Chili Powder.
 
peanut butter and miracle whip sandwich (on just regular white bread)

or even better, scoop peanut butter with a frito and then scoop some miracle whip. sooo good.
 
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