Dinner parties with contentious food

I’m remembering ‘The Duchess of Duke Street’ now Gaga that you sourced last year and I totally enjoyed rewatching!
Just the ticket for this thread too.

He ate it.
Not me!!!

I had a Nigerian boyfriend for a short while, and used to eat cowfoot.
I knew then it would never work out.

You were brave Gaga. Hats off to you woman!

Muscles, ligaments and dissected eyes. Put me right off.
No wonder we were in awe of the family doctor calling at our house with his little black bag when we were small.

What?? Stuff and nonsense I hear you cry.

Not at all for the reasons in the OP but my best friend, a wonderful cook, took my willingness to try new things to lengths I couldn't go to. Preserved egg. Couldn't do it. And duck blood. Couldn't bring myself to try it.

I did try jellyfish, tripe and stinky tofu. Only like the tofu, but the other two weren't to my taste.

I loved those old books.
I liked the medical ones, too.

Oh Miss A that’s off-putting.
Bleurgh!
?

Thank goodness we don’t live in the days when Mrs. Beeton’s cookbook reigned supreme. When I was in my teens our next door neighbour had an old copy (well thumbed with splashes on some pages). It was an eye-opener. And the kitchen equipment was something else. Some utensils (drawings, natch) looked positively medieval!

My nan used to make jellied eels.
They would be swimming around in her bath for a while before she chopped their heads off.

If we invite friends for dinner we make sure we serve things that we know they all enjoy.
If friends invite us they do the same.
I suppose the only time we might come across this strange situation is if we accepted an invitation from strangers which is highly unlikely these days.

It is quite a few years ago, we were laughing last week with the family some of whom had been for supper and had rotten sharks head.
They asked what was my worst and I remembered the experience. It was Dinner we were young and were being judged DH especially.
The chap next to me a friend ate his soup with the wrong spoon. Then after all the gorry details the hare arrived, I had never had anything cooked wholly in blood, wine a sauce or stock yes. There were definitely vertebrae on my plate so maybe the hostess did not know her hare from her a.... or how to cook it.
When pudding arrived the chap was allowed to eat a tiny ramekin of chocolate pudding with his soup spoon no sliding of a dessert spoon.
Dh ate everything as he always does and past muster.
When I had to host I usually chose lamb and a vegeterian option DH colleges were from many different countries and had varied dietry laws. I always told what would be on the menu.
Times have changed and now we have family and friends for supper and I usually cook Italian which seems to go down well with the GC as well. Thankgoodness those days are long gone.

Oh, I ate that once by accident.
Hidden in a bacon roll, it was.
It tasted very bitter to me.

Miss A ... ‘Don’t look Ethel!’.
?

I adore haggis.
Different beast altogether, served hot, especially with a tot of whisky poured over it!

I've never looked up haslet, but I gather it's made of all sorts.

I had to look that up MissA!
How our tastes have changed.
‘Nippers today don’t know they’re born’ .... ooh, where have I heard that before?

Urmstongran

From Wiki:

“Dressed tripe was a popular, nutritious and cheap dish for the British working classes from Victorian times until the latter half of the 20th century.[4][5][6] While it is still popular in many parts of the world today, the number of tripe eaters, and consequently the number of tripe dressers, in the UK has rapidly declined. Tripe has come to be regarded as a pet food, as the increased affluence of postwar Britain has reduced the appeal of this once staple food.”

If that's what it looks like dressed, I'd hate to see it naked!

We love liver, kidneys, blood puddings, haggis. I wouldn't serve them to visitors though, I know too many people who don't eat them. I've been served rabbit and pheasant, which I'm not too keen on, but ate it.

But please don't offer me tripe, or shell fish - makes my blood run cold.

I've never been to a dinner party, I've had meals at friends houses and they've eaten at mine but there wasn't anything refined or strange on offer

From Wiki:

“Dressed tripe was a popular, nutritious and cheap dish for the British working classes from Victorian times until the latter half of the 20th century.[4][5][6] While it is still popular in many parts of the world today, the number of tripe eaters, and consequently the number of tripe dressers, in the UK has rapidly declined. Tripe has come to be regarded as a pet food, as the increased affluence of postwar Britain has reduced the appeal of this once staple food.”

I used to eat haslet.

Hehe!

I can remember taking one mouthful and being warned "Don't start!!!!"

Yes MissA! I just Googled it.
Here you go.
It smelt like wet hay. With onions.