Thursday, May 22, 2008

My bad idea

Romantic dinner in French village at fancy restaurant. International award-winning roasted "Andouillette" sausage on the prix fixe menu. Hey that's like Cajun food right?

Andouillette
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andouillette is a French sausage, a specialty of Lyon, Troyes and Cambrai.
Traditional andouillette is made from the colon and the stomach of pig. In modern times, contents vary and normally contain intestines of pig, cow and/or calf. It is not to be confused with andouille sausage, which is much spicier, but more mild in animal-derived smells.
American andouillette is quite acceptable to the American palate. French andouillette, on the other hand, is an acquired taste and can be an interesting challenge even for adventurous eaters who don't object to the taste or aroma of feces. It is sometimes eaten cold, as in picnic baskets. Served cold and sliced thinly, the smell, taste, and texture may be mistaken for an andouille, but on closer inspection the texture is considerably more rubbery and the meat has a more feces-like flavor. By contrast, many French eateries serve andouillette as a hot dish, and foreigners have been repulsed by the aroma, to the point where they find it inedible (see external links). While hot andouillette smells of feces, food safety requires that all such matter is removed from the meat before cooking. Feces-like aroma can be attributed to the common use of the pig's colon (chitterlings) in this sausage, and stems from the same compounds that give feces some of its odors.
It cost me 30EUR ($48) so I ate the whole thing. It was an interesting challenge, because I DO object to the taste and aroma of feces.

7 comments:

joelmcwilliams said...

Ha ha ha, I guess Fear is not a Factor in matters of your fecal aroma consumption.

ek said...

I was worried some French Candid Camera guys would bust out during dessert yelling "SACRE BLEU MESSIEUR HAS EATEN THE ENTIRE POOP SAUSAGE C'EST IMPOSSIBLE"

joelmcwilliams said...

Bwa ha ha, oh man it's too funny to believe, Dom Delouise already wore a beret when he hosted it so it translates perfectly...

greg said...

oh, ek, i'm so proud of you! i knew you'd have a bad idea!

Ali said...

Evan, you win the bad idea contest hands down. I've eaten some pretty shitty stuff down here, but that takes the shit cake

kearly said...

dude, that is fucked. FUCKED. remind me NEVER to give you a sip of my juicebox ever again.

Unknown said...

Um. Whom did it cost 30 euro?
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kristen