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  It amazes me that so many people so against eating these cheap and tasty cuts of meat, it's such a waste.
  
  Meat production requires a huge amount of resources compared to other foods. As a result living in a society where meat is readily available is a luxury and one we should be very thankful for. My Dad talks about the excitement as a child of having a chicken for Sunday lunch, now people buy them and throw most away. 'Oh I only eat the breast meat' types annoy the hell out of me. Even by intensive farming methods, the raising of that animal is excessive and something in this world so many go without. I don't mind if people find a taste too strong of not to their palette but If you're not prepared to eat as much of the animal as possible(just because you 'don't like the idea of it') then become a vegetarian and do the world favour.
  
  As Howard and Barry say, Belly pork is actually quite a fine dinning dish these days (albeit a cheap cut) and should not be ruled out on price or description. It's funny how people screw their noses up at faggots and haggis and yet still eat supermarket sausages. Pig's trotters are delicious, belly pork is amazing slow cooked, then blasted at the end for the crackling. Faggots are great, yet it is hard to get proper ones (wrapped in caul) Brain's Faggots I find a little too salty and processed.
  
  I quite often buy chicken hearts (along with most of my meat) from the great butcher in the Charlton centre and feed the family for next to nothing. At the weekend a friend took me and my son for dinner in china town and my 5 year old son (along with loads of other kids in the restaurant) was quite happy eating chicken feet and duck webs. Why do we have to be so wasteful because of irrational opinions and an obsession with detaching our food from its source?

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