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Originally Posted by bjh  When I was young I remember my grandpa slaughtering a pig and my grandmother made scrambled pig brains.  I remember they tasted pretty good but it is not something I would want to fix now. I do like alligator, frog legs and shark. |
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Originally Posted by Lil Sis My mom used to tell me stories about hog killings --
I do remember one time (I was about 15 in hs) going to grandma and looking in a big pot on the stove... I had a whole hog's head in it 
She was making hog's head cheese. |
My grandma used to slaughter hogs. I remember she didnt waste any of it. My most vivid memory is the head in a big tub sittin on her kitchen floor. She also fried the skin and made cracklings. I loved her crackling corn bread.
I remember another incident where she bought about 75 pullet hens and she chopped there heads off with an ax and threw a big wash tub over them so they wouldn't flop all over the yard
my job was to dip them into a big barrel of boiling water and pluck the feathers. It's a wonder I even like chicken now haha