Pigs Head
I have the urge to purchase, cook and scoff a pigs head.

Has anyone tried it? How much did it cost? How tasty was it?
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:05, 23 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Sounds perilously close...
to my experience of marriage.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:15, Reply)

i can answer two out of three
Each year there is a "Continental Market" in Manchester where one can sample all sorts of european delights. Last year a stall was selling suckling pig sandwiches, the pig in question was skewered and revolving on a spit before our very eyes.

As it was towards the end of the day and some gluvein (sp) had been consumed we asked the nice market trader could we have the head? It was duly severed, wrapped and given to us.

It tastes fekkin fantastic, but the only decent areas to get meat from are the cheeks, the rest of the head is tasty but you have to fight to get the food of.

Once we had finished I took the now more or less meatless head home for my dog, who thought she had died and gone to heaven.
(bugboybeast, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:16, Reply)

I had soup
made by boiling the pigs head until everything fell off and then blending the lumpy bits.

It was nice.

Though I didn't know what it was when I ate it.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:30, Reply)

This exact thing
is in the newsletter this week.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:30, Reply)

@BBB
Once we had finished I took the now more or less meatless head home for my dog, who thought she had died and gone to heaven.


As she might have. Butchers don't give pig bones for dogs - or oughtn't to - because they shatter relatively easily. Once cooked, the bone of any animal becomes much more brittle. By giving your dog cooked pig-bone, you were running the risk of killing it.

Sorry to piss on your candle like that...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:30, Reply)

And
I'm sure I've heard somewhere that any form of pig meat is not a good thing for dogs.

Can't remember why though, plus it may just be an old wive's tale.

Damn my rapidly advancing years and curse my disintegrating memory
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:38, Reply)

They can't handle
the fatty meat. I makes them shit through the eye of a needle.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:47, Reply)

My spanish chum
at work talks about sheeps head being a delicacy where he came from.

thats no help at all to your question, but nevermind
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:56, Reply)

Erm
Dogs survived tens of thousands of years eating whatever the hell they wanted, brittle bones or not. And they've only been eating human-processed foods for the past century.

Chicken bones and pork ribs never did any of my dogs any harm at all.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 12:59, Reply)

The chicken bone thing
is true, that really cuts up their mouths, the pork bone thing i'm inclined to think is over zealousness, and the pork meat thing is just to avoid a dog that shits liquid smelling foulness all over your carpet.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 13:13, Reply)

Cooked chicken bones, maybe
Raw bones, much less likely.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 13:15, Reply)

We feed our dog
The BARF diet (bones and raw food), which consists of uncooked chicken wings, bones, raw tripe, mince, chicken and offal, and liquidised vegetables (nothing like potato, carrot or onion though - mostly green veg).

Since we started her on this diet she has become far more energetic, she's healthier, her coat is shiny, her teeth are clean, and best of all, you aren't faced with trying get half liquidised shit into a bag when you're taking her for a walk. And it doesn't smell half as bad.

Plus, feeding this diet is actually cheaper than buying normal dog food, we've found.

Oh yeah, and raw bones = white dog turds. It's like being back in the seventies.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 9 Dec 2008, 13:25, Reply)

No3l
Dogs as a species survived for ages, yes - but that tells us nothing about the specific risks to specific dogs.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 14:05, Reply)

wandering topic
We're drifting from the goody goodness of pigs' heads scrummyness and off the question, but I feel I should help stop this myth.

I've kept dogs on three different continents and I too used to believe that a single chicken wing bone was enough to make my dogs' stomach explode in an alienesque fashion.

Simply not true folks. What do you think people feed thier dogs in developing countries- Chum? No! Mr Caeser? Doubtful!

Dogs eat the scraps from the table which undoubtedly contain animal bones/carcasses. I know in the developed West, we all treat animals and dogs especially, like they are humans but we are spoiling them.

Feed your dogs the OCCAISONAL pig's head for a tasty treat. Cassie (the family dog in question) was "put to sleep" last year - she was 22.
(bugboybeast, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 14:06, Reply)

Also,
Dogs have only been about a few thousand years.

As have chickens.

Er... But my biology-ness tells me that dogs should be fine eating any uncooked bones they want, it's just that the cooking process changes the structure of bones, and there're no animals that are "used to" eating cooked bones.

That sounds like I'm getting at No. 31, but I'm not. Just... Stating some stuff :)
( Cawl, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 14:08, Reply)

As students we had a pigs head in our house for a while.
We didn't eat it though. It was more of an objet d'art.
( girlinthehole, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 14:27, Reply)

back on topic
the missus says NO so I guess I won't be purchasing, cooking and eating one in the near future.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 14:43, Reply)

@spikeypickle
Not even out the back boiled up in a tin bucket over an open fire (BBQ pit would do I suppose)? That's how my mate gets to have kippers.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 9 Dec 2008, 15:22, Reply)

PorkyLips
How ironic that you post regarding cooking pigs heads!!!

I suppose I could do that but I think she's also have an issue with me digging up the garden.....and the nieghbours may think me a little odd.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 15:36, Reply)

whose name is the mortgage/rent contract in?
hers? yours? or both?

stand up for yourself, man!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 15:59, Reply)

tiz joint mortgage
but I pay it (eh???)

If I argue she may revoke sexy time and she gives cracking blow jobs :0)

Actually fuck it! ITS MY GODDAMN HOUSE!!! I WILL ROAST A LITTLE PIGGYS HEAD!!!

I'll let you know how it goes next week.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 16:26, Reply)

Then you revoke it first
sex is not a weapon, dude.

Fuck that shit.



EDIT: YES! MAN POWER WOO!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 16:28, Reply)

worried about missing blow jobs?????
well strangely enough a pig's head can be used for all manner of things.......
(bugboybeast, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 16:57, Reply)