Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "6 Things We CAN'T Get Used to in the USA" video.

  1. Who would want to eat the likes of kidneys they stink and just the dirty filters of an animal. Even liver is a filter for materials that would harm an animals life, if left to accumulate. Eyes, brain, gonads etc are very unappealing. Gut washed clean was the original skin of sausages, now largely replaced by synthetics, but that is probably due to lack of enough supply of gut. Lots of the not normally used materials of the meat trade are used in pet food, but certainly as you pointed out much of sausage and similar reconstituted meats are usung ground up skin, fur, claws/toenail and similar. Many unusual things used are given alternative names, lambs fry, black pudding, haggis, etc to hide the origin of the contents. My grandparents had chicken brains often, my mother enjoyed liver and chicken liver chicken heart, chicken giblets. I have had many of these too. I am hating kidney, as it stinks and tastes of urine. At work once they offered by menu "steak casserole" for lunch, many including me, returned the dish. It was "steak & kidney casserole ". The british lady cooking and serving, was agahst that so many were turned off, claiming it was far better than just steak casserole. WELL MOST DID NOT AGREE. How many people actually eat the cheek pouch meat of a cooked trout. For that matter eat the eyes, my parent had a friend who sent back a grilled trout to the kitchen, as it was, as normally required, with the head attached. There are huge differences in preference, I like a good steak, with or without fats, but why suffer tough sinewy chewy meat, that is fine in slow cooked well done dish. A good soup cooked on bones, including Ox tail and here in Australia Kangaroo tail is great. Cooked heart is also great, though I used ox/beef heart for feeding our German shepard dog a lot. I like my fried or grilled fish, trout salmon etc with a nice crisp skin, most Australians reject any fish served with bones and/or skin. At least we have choice what we choose to eat, unlike food I have been served in Asia, where the food was often a lot more than menu stated, and not desirable differences either.
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  2. Actually most of the parts of animals we do not use for human consumption are not wasted, most go into animal feed and specifically much goes to pet food. But I gues in China there would not be much pet food as they eat those too.
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