Does anyone remember Tripe? My mother, the poor misguided soul, had the nerve to dish this stuff up to my brother and myself when we were about 10 or 12. She said...it was once a well known dish...with the wily guise of a salesman. Even then the stuff was history, but with a culinary non - skill unheralded in her time, she dished this white stuff up...we both looked at her with a disbelief that had to be seen to be believed. Even the dogs didnt want it. The very prospect of such a substance fills me with the urge to reach, even to this day. We shudda sued her for mental cruelty !!
But some foods clearly go way out of fashion. I remembner when I came to London first the place was teeming with these white tiled Pie and Eel Shops, we didnt know what they were ,as the delights of Pie and Eel shops had failed to migrate outside of Englands borders. I went in once...but just the once. The food was no longer required by a modern populace. I was part of a modern populace once, hard as it is to beleive. The shops all closed down one by one. There are now, at a guess, none left at all and they wont be coming back. The nation has turned to Chicken Korma instead. A wise move!
