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Well the menu is right… Only the french will eat Andouillette.
AAAAA- pas si amical, je pense.
C’est juste un mniere de le cuire… C’est peut etre just le chef qui est amical avec les Andouillette.
¿que?
They’re right I don’t like it. I doubt many French do, either.
well, it’s some sort of sausage… with grilled fries and green salad. Must be one hell of a sausage…
ah… google tells me it’s a sausage made of a pig’s intestines… me no like!
Thanks for that.
In which case, are you sure? I eat haggis!
I’ve tried haggis and liked it, but from the Wikipedia description I’m not so sure about andouillette!
Neither am I, but if I could get it as a starter, I’d be prepared to try it once.
Did you get an uphill leg or a downhill leg?
I’d not seen that particular page before. There is one thing that’s not true on it though; PISHED accept that training can be carried out on a diet of 10 Year Old Islay malts.
you’re sure i can tell you… it wmells so much you’re gonna puke pefore even trying it
I hate andouillette. And I’m French. It’s just _bad_. However, most sausages *are* made with intestines, at least for the external “envelope”.
Yeah, good sausages are made with pig intestines. It’s only with the invention of the modern meat packing line that the intestines are simulated by baking the outside of a big mash of meat. I find that more gross, personally.
It’s true. If it’s not intestines, it’s probably artificial
Weren’t all sausages made from the intestines of the respective animal, before the meat industry developed, and made the out of cartilage and internal organs instead?
Ain’t all sausages made from leftovers such as intestines? Better to make sausages of it than to throw it away, ‘aight?
Actually a friend of mine once had one. He said it smelt and tasted like turd.
Yes, he knows what turds taste like.
real sausage is always animal intestines, sorry to break it to ya
That’s what I was thinking….
Only the skin of “real” sausage is intestines!! The Andouillette are fully made from that stuff! Sorry to break that to you!
Aren’t most sausages made from pig’s intestines?
I ate Andouillette once when I first moved to France. Won’t eat it again.
Even the french has spelling errors, it should read “poulet grillé” .
That’s the thing with Andouillettes; either you love them or you hate them. And if you’re neither French nor some kind of gut-eating wolfman, you’ll hate them.
I’m so hairy I just might be a wolfman!
Owwwooouuu!!!!
This is where the “Mental Picture” fairy that Dr. Handle suggested would come in.
I think after paws4thot tries the andouillette’s, he’ll give up his carnivore lifestyle and be a veg. for the rest of his life.
Ok, I get that I won’t like the andouillette, but what the heck is a AAAAA?
that stands for: Association Amicale des Amateurs d’Andouillettes Authentiques
I’m dutch, so i’ll try to translate my poor french to poor english…
Association of Amateur Friends of Authentic Andoulette…
i guess.
As a native English speaker I can say that the literal translation is correct; I’m not so sure about the idiom but then I’m not sure what the correct idiomatic translation of AAAAA would actually be. I’ve tried several variations, and keep coming up with something else that just seems wrong in English.
Thats because it is served at the Castle AAAAAAAAAA!!!!
The number of “A” describes the quality of the andouillette, the more A’s, the better the quality.
Good luck with your healthcare system.
That’s not true, it does indeed stand for that weird acronym.
What is this “health-care system” of which you speak?
I’ve heard wild rumors that in some countries, good health care does not require one to be rich or to go bankrupt just because you get sick! But here in the US, we’re much too advanced for that.
I’m told we have the best health-care in the world! I wouldn’t know, I’ve never seen any.
In terms of objective criteria (such as life expectancy, infant mortality, lost work time due to illness, etc.) the US is not only NOT #1, but ranks below some nations that are definitely not “first world” (e.g., Cuba). But we spend the most on health care, and in the US we evaluate everything in terms of dollars, so obviously our health care must be the best, since it’s the most expensive.
Thinking too much about our health care fills me with utter despair.
Yup. On the up side, knowing that I’m screwed if I need help has made me conscientious about taking care of myself. Hot tip, tattoo artists are often handy with a needle for minor stitch jobs, and they don’t charge very much.
I’d hate to think that my kids would visit the tattoo parlor sooner than their teen years.
Perhaps he was dictating this menu?
Wikipedia suggests it’s the Friendly Association of Authentic Antouillette Lovers. I suppose it makes sense that those that love antouillette would have an association to defend their tastes. ^^
That’s good. I’d translate:
Friendly Association of Authentic Andouillette Enthusiasts
^^ Friendly Association of Authentic Andouillette Enthusiasts
Agreed that this is correct
“No translation because you don’t like it”. That’s what happens when a pessimist writes the menu.
Or maybe someone who was tired of explaining what it is to the non-natives, having them order it, cooks to cook it, and the customer returning it because it was horrible.
BTW, I’m taking notes. If I ever go to France, I will not try the andouillette. Yes, I know there’s a chance that I might be one person who actually enjoys it, but I’ll just take the word of the menu writer who says I won’t like it.
You know, the more I learn about this menu item, the less it looks like a misprint.
or your mother.
Yes, they’re right. I tried it but couldn’t get past one bite. When it arrived at the table and I got a whiff I thought, “That’s not food”.
Chacun à son goût. I’ve always had a similar problem with coffee.
Me too (oh grud, I’m doing a “me too” post…) I can’t handle the smell or taste of coffee. Whenever I see tiramisu, I’m a little sad, because I suspect that I’m missing out on something WONDERFUL.
Oh, how sad that you all are missing out on one of life’s finer pleasures, one of my few remaining vices. How can you enjoy a good cheesecake without coffee on the side?
I manage, JohnB, I manage.
I wish I could enjoy Irish coffee. Irish whiskey is not bad in tea, though.
Brandy in hot chocolate is pretty good; they can have their coffee. If you use a good brandy and put some vanilla beans in it several weeks in advance you have some wonderful stuff for the kitchen. It’s better than anything you can buy.
That sounds like a good idea. Must get a bottle ready for winter.
Come to think of it, whiskey would be good in hot chocolate, too.
I never found any beverage that I didn’t think a little liquor would make better.
Humans seem to have a thing for the taste of alcohol. I’m pretty sure that’s one of the reasons I like really good bitter chocolate so much. Chocolate is fermented in part of the process, and I can taste that in the good stuff.
I truly did like the taste of alcohol, but that’s not the main reason I drank it. I’ve known many people who don’t like the taste of alcohol and drink it anyway. I’ve also known many people who think they drink it because they like the taste, but that’s not their main reason, either.
Enjoying the taste is certainly the reason I like chocolate. Also, I like the high…
My favourite winter drink is Baileys (Irish Cream) with brandy. The drink is chilled, but it’ll warm you up fast.
Also, you can now buy Baileys with coffee & caramel or chocolate flavouring. Yummy!
I put Kalulah in my morning thermos of chai a couple times in a desperation maneuver for caffiene, and it wasn’t bad. A hell of a lot cheaper than a latte, since the Kaluah was left behind by my boyfriend’s old room-mate. I did have to share it out at work, though.
I used to be this way, but I make a habit of retrying foods and drinks after a few years to see if my tastes have changed. Coffee, still bad, but not unmanageable.
It’s going to have to get better than “manageable” before I’ll even bother. I tried coffee more than once, BTW. My throat still clamps shut.
I like coffee!
Maybe the coffee you tried was too strong. Try making one that doesn’t have too much coffee. Small quantities, once you get used to the taste you can increase the strength if desired. If you don’t make too strong it will sort of resemble the taste of Earl Grey tea with milk, except for the bergamot fragrance. Instead of the bergamot you can have something like French vanilla, hazelnut flavored coffee, etc. Maybe trying a flavored coffee that’s not too strong will do the trick.
I appreciate the hints, but I don’t even like chocolates with coffee centres. I’m happy that there are plenty of other flavours to choose from.
Let’s see, I’ll have the chicken that is only partially roasted. Oh, you say I won’t like that either?
Yes, I was rather doubtful about that – I prefer my chicken to be thoroughly cooked – once you have suffered from salmonella, you tend to be very cautious!
It’s supposed to be a roasted half-chicken. No, wait, if I say that you may assume it’s half-chicken half-something else. Gggggaaa!
Anyway, you can sometimes find half-roasted stuff: we call it “à l’unilatérale”, i.e. one-side
Wow, do you really hale from DPH? Join the club!
Wow, that was a little passive-aggressive, menu-writer!
If i worked there as a waiter, i’d probably wanted to kill that menu-writer…
i guess every tourist would ask the waiters: what’s that? And when you’ve explained it, they’ll say: nah, i don’t want that….
try that 25 times on a busy night…
I get the feeling they were going for a bit of humour and meant to write “you WON’T like it”.
I detect a parent/child connection to the writer of the menu.
That’s just what I was about to say – you’ve saved me waiting until the end of the thread. It smacks of some cunning ruse to get kids to eat it. “What’s that, Mum?” “Don’t worry about it, you won’t like it.” “How do you know? What is it?” “You can’t have it; I told you, you won’t like it, so pick something else.” “I’ll have it if I want! You never let me have stuff! I WANT ANDOUILLETTE!” etc.
Reverse psychology can be very powerful with children, especially the ones that rush in where angels fear to tread.
Which is a perfect description of my eldest.
You know something isn’t quite right when you cut through a sausage and it goes ‘pop-pop-pop’ as each tube inside it is cut. Think that was a particularly bad one, my family bought some from a French supermarket and barbecued them. Not even my brother would eat them, and he eats everything…
Reading the comments on these delicious items is one hell of a way to wake up.
Whatever it is, I don’t think I want it!
…And what the heck is a nord!ck? Anybody else notice that?
(stupid mods…..)what the heck is a nord!ck salade?
Well, Nordic skiing involves those events where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, so I would imagine a Nordic salad would be a salad that is only partially fastened to a ski. If you want a salad that is firmly attached to a ski at all points, order the Alpine salad.
JOHNB MAY TRY TO IMPERSONATE ME, BUT YOU KNOW THE REAL BILLY MAYS!!
Yeah! The real Billy is very gassy!
Give him a break, he’s dead.
And I don’t spend a lot of time around dead people, but I understand they can be quite odiferous.
Hmm, that must be the salad with the snow peas and the Rouge d’Hiver lettuce.
The most ghastly mental picture of a lovely green salad with a Swedish pickled, um, pene, shall we say, resting splendidly on a bed of iceberg, baby spinach and roast capsicum, just popped into my head. *shudder* Perhaps I need another cuppa.
If I remember correctly it’s – either / or – neither / nor.
Neither that salad nor that d!ck is what you had ordered.
OK. Just as long as it isn’t gnaw d!ck.
God! that took me awhile! You have a Bronx accent today!
I almost made the same comment (except for the “taking a while” part), as a native of the Noo Yawk metro area. It would sound about the same in the Boston area too. The easiest way to tell a New York accent from a Boston accent is to have the person say an “ar” word. In Boston, they “pack the ca in the yad.”
When I used to visit Boston for some reason their accent provided much more amusement to us than the New York variety.
(No offense intended to either Bostonians or New Yorkers, it was good natured amusement, love all the accents).
I forgot about accents! Actually, if an Aussie was to use the word “gnaw” it would sound about the same as “nor”.
@ DnT, ROFL
Poulet grilée……..it’s grillée……..
jinxed says:
February 3, 2010 at 6:23 am
(stupid mods…..)what the heck is a nord!ck salade?
It’s nordic salade, and it’s just another meal…and it looks pretty much easy to make.
………………………
If you ever go in Québec, you must try the “poutine” from COSTCO…
Yea, poutine is so good…. just fries, chicken sauce (from St-Hubert BBQ) and cheese (granulated cheese or grated cheese)……….it’s good.
From COSTCO? I wouldn’t think Costco, of all places (it’s American!) would be the place to go for good poutine, but then again, the only Costcos I’ve been to don’t have it.
TECHNICALITY! If your right, it should say nordic, not nord!ck. This is engrish!
I have had poutine in Vancouver and I loved it. Fries, gravy and cheese curds. Sooooooo unhealthy I bet. So savoury and tasty. Perogie is good also. Not sure if I spelled it right but i loved to eat it.
I’ll have the salted cod, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to mash the potatoes using only a green salad.
How about that marined chicken? I didn’t know the French raised them at sea. Semper cluck!
But WHY is andouillette so bad? Can any of les francais here enlighten me? I mean, I really like innards. I’ve had suckling lamb intestines in Rome that made me think I’d died and gone to heaven. But the one bite of andouillette I tried in Paris was like licking the floor of a pig barn. Is there a good kind out there? What’s the deal?
What do you mean so bad? I had one for lunch and it was awesome. I wouldn’t like my andouillette to taste any other way.
Andouillette is a really tasty sausage. In a way, it is quite similar to other dishes (like oysters and snails for instance) : if you didn’t start eating that when you were a kid you will find it very difficult to try some, which is sad because even if it’s smelly it’s really great…
I’m french and I love andouillette but I can imagine most foreign people wouldn’t like it or even want to try it.
JenM : you must’ve been in a bad restaurant, there’s a lot of them nowadays in Paris
So its status is something like how stinky tofu is in China? My mom who’s born and raised in China loves it (she calls the smell a fragrance); me who’s born and raised in America hates it (I call it an unholy stench). And my sister’s classmate was born and raised in northern California loves it in a rare exception.
uuu i want a gentle french boyfriend like u
Believe me. You don’t like andouillette. You don’t want andouillette. You don’t want to see or smell it. You don’t want to know what’s in it.
By the way, “AAAAA” is a quality label (whatever “quality” may mean in that context).
And the “half roasted chicken” should be a “roasted half chicken”!
Sort of AAAAA means the andouillette is approved by the Society for the Appreciation of Authentic Andouillette.
There are two kinds of andouillette: the kind you buy in the supermarket, and the real thing made the old fashioned way. The kind you buy in the supermarket has been made in a more modern fashion that robs if of some of its character. It still tastes like ass, just not so strong.
This is apparently the real thing, and unless you like giving rim jobs to your boyfriend or girlfriend, then you probably won’t like it.
I only rim immediately after she’s bathed.
I like tripe. This is essentially tripe sausage, so maybe the concentrated tripe-ness might be overwhelming in a way that it isn’t with a long-cooked and well-spiced stew like menudo, but I suspect I wouldn’t mind this stuff… if it were spiced heavily. Might need some Tabasco sauce if not. Some of the best menudo I have had smelled fecal but was otherwise delicious. My homemade menudo is not very smelly.
Salmonella, which (as someone already noted) is rampant in chickens, and only thorough cooking kills it. And it is NOT a fun illness to have.
Ohhh, tell me about it; my husband contracted it on an away posting, and was EXTREMELY unwell, as were his most of his workmates. Apparently, the rest rooms at the watch house resembled a war zone before Victoria’s Finest started going home unfit for duty.
I got it once, I spent 6 hours with simultaneous explosive vomiting and diarrhea … I felt incredibly weak and bad. I thought I would die that day … Fortunately this purge and 3 days without eating got rid of it.
Sometimes you only die if you are lucky.
As my health teacher explained the sickness, she said
“You don’t know whether to sit on the toilet or the look at it”
*shudders*
The answer: sit on the toilet with a bucket in your lap. If you’re still able to sit.
I have debated several times whether to write about my memorable case of salmonella, as I’ve told the story many, many times in real life and I’ve wanted to preserve a degree of privacy.
But then I thought what the heck, it’s a big world, probably could have happened to someone else, too.
My most nasty case of salmonella was from a chicken I had in a restaurant on the evening of 9/09/01 that turned out to be under-cooked. I was scheduled to be in NYC in the morning on 9/11/01, didn’t make it.
Not only did you avoid an international incident, you were no doubt considerably slimmer than before.
I got some from shrimp about six years ago… I don’t love shrimp anymore.
I had about eight hours of hell, and it was probably about twenty-four hours before I was back in my body.
A friend who is a homeopath came over and took care of me, she tossed remedies to me at arms length, as I was spewing at both ends.
They are right– no one I’ve met other than the French like Andouilette. It is made of pig innards, has a nauseating gray & lumpy look to it, smells like, well, what is inside innards, and as one friend brave enough to try it said, “tastes squeaky.”
So the menu is actually spot-on, you won’t like it. You won’t even want to LOOK at it.
I’m French and even I hate it too.
So yeah, I can vouch for that menu’s advice. See it in the menu? Stay away from it.
“hmm I want that thing with the 5 As, you know, the one that the menu tells me specifically not to order….”
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 [a milder, less stinky sausage], 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.
Yum Yum
As delightful as that sounds, perhaps cooking is just as sensory an experience.
So you actually know how feces tastes…
the cantine where I work served andouillette the other day for lunch (I went for the turkey, thanks).
It’s an intestine, stuffed inside another intestine, repeated until the thing is about 5cm/2″ in diameter.
It smells like ass…the entire building smelled like ass that day.
Anything that smells that bad cannot possibly be considered food.
(and I eat escargot, caviar, sushi, and alligator with great enjoyment, I’ve tried blood sausage and horsemeat, but didn’t like them….and I’d still starve to death before I ever even tried andouillette.)
It seems to me there’s a great difference between using the intestinal lining as a casing for sausage (which, while it is certainly gross to think about, bothers few sausage-eaters) and using the intestine COMPLETE WITH CONTENTS, which literally means you are eating sh!t.
Sausage made of horse entrails if I remember rightly………
umm…I think I just lost my interest in dinner tonight…
Ugh, I read the comments.
*blergh*
ditto
I love andouillette. Of course I am French.And yes, the traditionnal andouillette (certified by the AAAAA association) has parts of anus in it. mmmmmmh !
I can imagine if they ever package the things: “Warning: this product contains traces of anus.”
It must take some very specialized drawing instruments to trace an anus.
Carbon paper?
I wonder what they used on the “Butt Bandit”. The same technique they use to take fingerprints? “Here, sit on this stamp pad. Now on the paper.” LOL!
Andouillette smells like poo.
The menu is correct
As my 10-year-old daughter is so fond of saying, well, durrr! It tastes like poo because that’s what it is!
meet Brookers!!
That girl will come to a sticky end.
She grew up, and lost her whacky, to my sorrow…
Is she your daughter???
No. My youngest and I think some of her stuff is pretty funny! Love her Harry Potter impersonation, plus “My United States of Whatever.”
Comedy is a risky path for teenage girls.
ROFLMAO
Perhaps it’s time to mention Bismarck’s epic words :
“politics and sausage are alike : if you do like them, don’t bother checking how they’re made”.
And, yes, andouillette can’t help smelling like crap, unlike many sausages, because it’s made of some specific part of the intestines.
Crap is crap.
But to cook them, you first have to broil the sh!t out out of them. BTW, they go down great with Pschitt!
Quelle honte, même dans la partie en Français il y des fautes…
What a shame, even the French part is wrong :/
French WIN!
Its green salad with grilled fries
abolutely!
OH COOL *ANOTHER* MENU
If only they had fed these things to the Nazis, WW2 would have been over in 1942.
babel fish no have translate so wikipedia it is to consult heartily. this being sausage of tripe with magnificent odor and many not likings it is of rightness for menu. Happy joy!
VIVE LA FRANCE !
Oh, I love andouilette, and it DOES smell like turd.But it tastes lovely, just like most strong cheeses do.
As a French, a lover of cheese and a hater of andouillette, I beg to disagree. ^^;
HA! I was right! The French are full of sh!t! EPIC WIN!!! *pumps fist*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andouillette
andouillette is a french sausage made with tripe, not as the casing, or outside of the sausage, but as the meat that makes up the inside. tripe is the stomach of the animal…
Do not confused andouillette sausage with andouille sausage from Cajun cooking. Andouillete is NOT little andouille sausages.
Hell, I’m French and andouillettes are DISGUSTING. D:
It’s not the intestines that are the problem. Good sausages normally go hand in hand with intestines.
The problem is, the thing is seriously a sausage from hell. It’s repulsive.
And I like tripes! D:
Trust me when I say, andouillettes are not from this world.
Andouillette is really worth tasting once at least (if perfectly fresh and well cooked : should be ok if “AAAAA”), but don’t eat that kind of food too often (if you like it) because it may cause gout
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They’re right… if you’re reading the English translation you’re not going to like andouillette. You’re probably not going to like tripes either. These all fall in to an overall category of “offal” which folks from anglophone countries rarely appreciate.
However I love the stuff. Andouillette is one of my favourites and I order it just about each time I find it on the menu as the rest of my family doesn’t like it. Rabbit is another one I eat out whenever I can as my family doesn’t eat it at home.
A good Andouillette, with good mustard, some not too greasy frites and a good cold beer (lager) is just plain wonderful to my tastes.
Completely true – Andouillette is an acquired taste, even for the French. For other nationalities, imagine eating poo from a dog that’s been fed on Pedigree Chum for the last three weeks – you’re probably halfway there! Been there (andouillette, not dog poo!), tried it, didn’t like it!!!!
@derek and what about Tripes a la niçoise? Or une bonne andouillette grillée! hmmmmm and the Lapin sauce moutarde!
I would like to order the AAAAA please