Well Tom, I'm with you completely. When we all meet up to scare the local population with our shiny heads, we'll let all the other guys eat the meat with blood dripping out of it, and you and I can sit together in the 'well done' corner
WTF is a pressed duck?
Cassoulet is ok. I dont mind beans.
Tripe was very popular when I was growing up, mainly because money was very tight back then in the UK (even more so than now) but Im not sure many people still eat it. Tongue is popular in sandwiches, kidneys in pies (steak and kidney pie, or steak and kidney pudding). I know butchers also sell heart and brain, but I dont know from which animal, or how/why people would use them.
Okay, understand--there are bad sausages in a lot of places, it's not just ground meat, it's an culinary art in and of itself. Tongue is great, but hard to find. I've found steak and kidney pie good--in the country not in London town, but heavy. Heart is difficult to find and harder to find well prepared, a rare treat. But when PMS migrated from women to cows as Mad Cow Disease they stopped selling brains here, major loss. Brains and eggs were a great breakfast dish. Then there's horsemeat--I've never had the opportunity to try it.
When my uncle came to visit us once, back in the 80s, he managed to find some beef kidneys in the supermarket. I didn't even know that US supermarkets sold them. My mother cooked some for him and the whole house smelled like urine. After two or three days of that, she put her foot down and told him she'd cook him anything else he wanted for breakfast.
Tongue is an odd thing to eat. Seems like it's tasting me as I'm tasting it!