Not technically a "food" this one, mair o' an unwanted by-product. These things were forever turnin' up on yer plate back in the 70's.
Nowadays meat is quite sterile and quality control by the faceless supermarkets has meant that every bit o' meat ye buy fae them is roughly the same size, shape and weight. Folk are ower squeamish these days. Foot and mouth outbreaks, mad coo disease and the media frenzy that feeds off them have meant that if someone finds anything on their plate that is different, then they are right roond tae the supermarket kickin up a right stink.
Back in the day you used tae find aortas, bits o ventricle, ligaments, grizzle, string and awthing in yer dinner. "Just eat it" was the instructions from oor parents, "It'll no do ye any harm" or "it's just part o' the meat".
At school the auld dinner hall joke was that the big tube in yer stew was a urethra of equine origin, or a "donkeys welt tube" as we called it. If you bit into the donkeys welt tube and spat it oot you got the pish ripped oot o' you all day by yer mates. It was one of those daft slaggings like the haircut slagging but ye just had to take it. You knew that someone else would get one later in the week and you would be off the hook and would be right in there wi' aw the guid one liners.
Arkos was telling me the other day that he can trace the origins of his vegetarianism back to findin' a beauty o' a welt tube in a Frey Bentos pie. Big Jessie that he is, if ye ask me.
4 comments:
Ah mind gettin a donkey's Welt Tube in a steak pie ah wiz eatin in Rannoch. It aboot choaked the fuck oot oh me! this must huv been the John Holmes oh the donkey world ahm tellin ye. Bein truthful n oh that, ah am goanie take the risk o bein called a ladies blouse, ah huvnie hud a steak pie since then, ah wunder why?
"The John Holmes o' the donkey world"
I shudder tae think whit that would look like.
Could feed a family o' 4 wi a bit left ower fir the dug.
Donkey's Welt Tube? Ooh ya minger that's pure honkin.
Ah trace my ain vegetarianism to a greasy pie purchased at Easter Road in 1984. Took one bite and the grease just slabbered all doon ma sleeve. Ah flung said pie fae the Dunbar Road end intae the wee enclosure below the auld main stand.
Reckon i'd've giein it up many years previous if i'd come across a Welt. Bokarama.
Aye, Alien Orders is right. I bacame a full on veggie not long after finding aforesaid welt tube in ma Frey Bentos Pie. I remember yon meal in oor flat near Meadowbank well. It was one of the first meals we sat doon to in the flat. The plate was piled wae tatties, peas and the pie. I was doing OK till I felt the welt tube grinding against ma teeth. It was like chewin a rubber band. No way could I swallow it. I near boaked! That was me done with the meat! And here I am, over 30 years on & I am still off the meat. Aye, the taste of a welt tube can dae that to a man!
Arkos
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