Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 7th July, 2024)

Colin, mam brought us kids up on tripe, blackpudding and meat n tattie pies from the market hall, bye gum they were good !!

Honeycomb tripe with plenty of vinegar. Lovely. I get mine from Preston market but it’s not cheap nowadays like it was years ago.

If that wouldn't make you vegetarian nothing would.I would rather eat my own feet,while drinking battery acid.

It looks absolutely Offal.

Tripe....I have seen it poached in milk, sprinkled with vinegar, salt & pepper but never once have I ever had the need or want to taste it !

You've just put me off breakfast.
Looks horrible.

I did think of asking the lady is I could buy the lot including tray, filling it with aspic jelly and entering it for this years Turner Prize.
I think it would look quite good on display Tate Modern and attract a lot of attention from the public and the media.

Its very nice poached in champagne and chanterelle mushrooms,if you don't have any champagne in, you
can also use woodpecker cider.

As a child I ate cow heel stew and pigs' trotters but couldn't face tripe. Peter loves it! We love black pudding which we get from Stornoway by mail order but Bury black pudding is good too.

I haven't come across it in Australia -but I wouldn't eat it anyway!!

I don’t get to Wigan very often but my daughter always asks me to get some pigs belly from this stall,it looks like black tripe and is really good.I never thought it was something that she would ever put in her mouth.

This put me in mind of The Honeycombs hit, Have I The Right To Hold You. Happy days.

Wonderful got some in my fridge , dinner with vinegar and pepper.

There's nothing nicer than a bit of tripe sprinkled with salt and vinegar! The hand carved ham from this stall is delicious too.

Honeycomb tripe? I think this is from a cow's second stomach lining.
It is very popular in various forms all over Europe.
My grandma used to cook it as a cheap meal - as Linma says above, it is far from cheap today. She used to call pigs' trotters "thripe wi' airs on." I can also remember her doing cow heart - I never tasted that.

Pw. I did take picture of two pigs belly’s, after careful consideration I thought them too shocking to post on pad. In fact it may well have been censored!

Yuk

What a load of tripe ugh!
I was sent for that as a child to what was called the Tripe Shop in Scholes. Only my dad ate it. The texture of it would put anybody off. Having said that there’s no waste on an animal that’s for sure plus it was cheap.

And double yuk.

Damien Hirst might have met his match.
Try sending it to Master Chef and see what they can do with it.

We have just had a load of this from the Politicians!

As a child, along with black pudding, I used to love tripe until my grandad told me where both of them originated from. I refused to eat either of them immediately and have never touched them since!!

More Tripe FYI:.
Beef tripe is made from the muscle wall (the interior mucosal lining is removed) of a cow's stomach chambers: the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum (reed) tripe is seen less frequently, owing to its glandular tissue content.
I'm beginning to regret posting this picture, imagine asking for half a pound of reticulum (it sounds like rectum!).
I THINK I'LL STICK WITH FISH if you don't mind.

Lovely to see that Mr Jim Sutcliffe's stall is still trading in Wigan after all these years.

Why are the other containers empty.?

Anyone remember the UCP restaurants?

Perhaps that’s the left over tripe after they’ve cleaned the trays with
t’other tripe. It makes a good dish cloth.

Tommy, there were pigs belly’s in the one at the back but sold quickly, maybe there were pigs trotters in the front one but they must have trotted off.

Certainly got a lot of comments on the tripe Colin reminded me of my years picking butchers waste up on Darwen market,an elderly lady was asking the butcher for a sheeps yead and to leave the eyes in to see her through the week.

I'm also with others in giving it a wide berth, I recall that being called bleached tripe and soaked in hydrogen peroxide, the same stuff some folks would put on their teeth and hair.
Though it is said to be highly nutritious, and the Spanish make a stew out of it, but no matter how much it's spiced and herbed you can still smell the stench of it a mile away.

Residuum of Sir Jacob William Rees - Mogg.

The containers might be empty because she has sowd up.

I used to go in the UCP for some lunch when the weather was too bad to get the bus home. And tripe my mother in law loved it if she wasn’t well that’s what she would have with lots of vinegar. Other than that I don’t think I could eat it now. And black puddings I used to love those with a lovely soft well buttered balm cake. Lovely . But not now..

John (W) On the board above the stall it says that they do home deliveries.
Thought you in particular might have appreciated my alternative heading of ‘Tripe On A Bike’..

Colin I’m always up for a laugh far better than argy bargy,should be riding through Standish doing the Manchester to Blackpool next Sunday for the burns unit that saved the life of young lad 5years old who has had meningitis quite a few people have sponsored me.

Gary, I believe UCP stood for United Cowheel Products.There were branches in Standishgate and Scholes and the UCP cafe was at the top of market st. Used to like going in there for a quick lunch of burger and chips or pie and chips etc but definitely not of tripe, cowheels . pigs trotters or some other foul looking thing called elder.

I was a chef at the UCP in Market St back in the 1974, upstairs was a real classic restaurant. Waitresses in black skirts and white aprons.
I had to go to the Preston UCP restaurant for two weeks and they had a sign over the door saying "This restaurant is licensed to talk tripe"