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NoSheep 6 Mar 3
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One of my favorite labels was on the back of a pack of baby carrots. Ingredients: carrots.

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Sure don't want it for the bones even though I have to pay for 'em .

We buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts. If I’m paying that much, I’m getting something I can eat all of!

@NoSheep Yes we do exactly. what you suggest.
My family in my childhood treated it differently however - simply because we were butchers - meat sausages etc. We had a famous product in the area where we lived - BRAWN - product where small bits of good but otherwise unsaleable meat were set in a gelatine base , poured hot into molds, then cooled and sliced to wrap up and sell. It sold like hot cakes.
So I spent - alongside my mother and sister, many hours in a steamy outhouse getting all the meat off the bone of as many animals as we could (yes including sheep and offal)
Transfer back to the present day. When we have a had a chicken we try to get as much goodness out of the chicken in the form of soup , so I repeat the memorable times of my childhood.

BTW I think the Meatbird label was trying to get customers to forget about the bones and concentrate on the flesh BUT the bones have goodness too . Boling them releases the gelatinous materials that form the template for the small meat pieces in the brawn. Have a go at making the product!

@Mcflewster is brawn similar to Souse, aka head cheese?

@NoSheep Sorry not heard of Head cheese. What are its ingredients?

@Mcflewster basically in the old days when people butchered their own meat, they would butcher hogs and use literally every part. The head would be skinned and tossed in a boiling cauldron of water over a fire outside, and boiled until every bit of flesh and brain was boiled off the bone. They would strain the meat out and pack the bits tightly into loaves and the gelatin from the bone held it together. They kept it in a cool place for freshness. Basically a type of pork bologna.

@NoSheep this is basically what we did but we had small pieces of delicious though obscure meat floating in suspension of perhaps more gelatine . Both delicious though. I don't think you explained what Head Cheese was . And where does the cheer e come in?

Have you heard the joke about the boiled sheep's head? Leave the eye in - delicious and they will see you through the week.

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