Word: offalness
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...what they want, and thankfully so, since my efforts alone aren't enough to keep tripe on the menu at Pho Pasteur (hey, I'm trying). But recently a New Yorker article exposed a group of Manhattanites who have banded together in order to indulge their clandestine love of offal, which proves that offal-eating is generally looked down upon in the States as inherently unclean...
...concede that taste is subjective enough that people may just not like the taste of organ meat. My issue is with those people who pull faces at eating certain parts out of some false notion of intrinsic 'uncleanliness,' and, worse than that, to consider the very act of eating offal beyond their ken, beyond their realm of comprehension. I call this the 'how could you eat those parts?' school of thought: some people seem to take it as a God-given fact that anyone who eats anything that looks like the original animal or comes from an 'unclean' part...
Despite what New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the fiery economy have done to clean things up, smelly garbage, careering cabs and dog poop still assault New Yorkers daily. Most residents become inured to the offal they encounter. It's a survival mechanism but also a matter of pride. So it was a bit embarrassing last week when the mayor got ruffled by an art exhibit, of all things...
...problems began in 1986, when a BSE epidemic struck herds across the country, ultimately leading to the death of up to 1,000 cows a week. To protect the food supply, the government ordered the slaughter of affected cattle and banned the sale of cow brains, intestines and other offal, thought to be the organs likeliest to harbor the disease. And in 1988 it halted the practice of feeding cattle the remains of diseased sheep, which is where the infection is believed to have started. But by that time the damage was done...
...They most likely contracted the disease through contact with BSE. Eight of them have died, and the remaining two are gravely ill. All 10 are believed to have come in contact with the virus before 1989, the year the government banned the use of nervous tissue and offal for animal or human consumption...