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Kids these days will never know the glory of the tripe stall

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Tben · 14/07/2026 00:13

When I was growing up in the 1980s, I used to go shopping in the town centre with my Gran every Saturday. Amongst our many ports of call, we’d always go to the tripe stall on the fish and meat market to get some tripe for my Grandad.

A whole stall devoted to selling the stomach lining of a cow.

Kids these days will never know of such things. Tripe
is gone, never to come back. I was there, at the end, as it passed into history.

I hated it myself of course - the look, the smell, just… no.

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CaptainMyCaptain · 15/07/2026 19:19

I haven't had a faggot for years but used to love them. Mr Brain's faggots aren't posh. I used to get mine from the butchers in the St Nicholas Market in Bristol and they were at least twice the size.

VerifiedAccount · 15/07/2026 19:15

StormGazing · 14/07/2026 02:12

Jesus where did you grow up?! I was an 80’s child and never saw such 🤢🤢
I do remember eating the bone marrow out of a roasted leg of lamb on multiple occasions though 🤢🤮

My Dad used to make us eat bone marrow. I remember it not being awful? Tripe though. 🤢 and faggots. Omg I hated faggots. Still had to eat them though. It didnt help that if we got "the posh ones" the brand was "Mr Brains". Blggh

I'm vegetarian these days! 🤣

Sadcafe · 15/07/2026 19:12

Some thing’s actually have changed for the better

Tuki · 15/07/2026 16:48

Greehalghs Black pudding stall on Bury market sells tripe, my dad who is 95 still buys it from there, together with a fatty black pudding !

VincaBlue · 15/07/2026 14:56

Not sure if it's the same but we were given Mock Duck Roll at Infant School. I think it was in orange breadcrumbs

echt · 15/07/2026 14:32

Lobsterteapot · 14/07/2026 20:04

Also remember several market stalls selling tripe - was it cooked? Just thinking if people ate it with salt and vinegar? What did it taste like?

We used to have “penny duck” which was offal mixed with breadcrumbs and sage - absolutely delicious!

Savoury ducks they were called in my home town and I made them occasionally as part of my first summer job.

CloudyWithAChanceOfCustard · 15/07/2026 13:20

ChuisEpuisee · 14/07/2026 09:28

My Mum mentions this place whenever anyone mentions offal, pining for the beauty of tripe with a fond look in her eyes and yet in my forty-odd years I've never known her to buy and eat tripe so it can't be that bloody great can it 😂

The big indoor food market in Barcelona is a fascinating insight into offal, on case anyone's visiting soon.

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Ahhh…the ‘good old days’ 😂

It’s funny how we all have memories of these days…but wouldn’t act on them now! I remember my mum going on about ‘sugar buttys’ that were apparently THE BEST…but I never saw her make or eat one! 😂

AliceMcK · 15/07/2026 12:38

Omg I feel sick from the memories 🤢 My Nan loved it, my DF (a butcher) would get her some every week. I feel the same about all offal.

Both my parents grew up very poor, DF and his siblings would have to beg for food, think along the lines of the begging scene in Angela’s Ashes. My Nan tried to get all her sons to be butchers boys, my DF was the only one who stuck at it. He’d get scraps off the butcher, my Nan would use every single scrap of the animal she could. She would tell my DF off for wasting “perfectly good food” when she found out his employers didn’t use every bit of the animal years later.

madaboutpurple · 15/07/2026 12:25

I could not stand the thought of eating tripe.

60andcounting · 15/07/2026 12:22

Mingou · 15/07/2026 11:42

I can buy tripe in my local butchers. I mean I don't, but I could

Where is the butcher?

Almakarlinsghost · 15/07/2026 12:10

Thechaseison71 · 14/07/2026 21:51

Hmm I wonder if it's regional. I e never seen a tripe stall in my life and I'm 55

I don't think it's regional. I am a similar age to you and my south-west born and bred mother used to buy it for us in the 70s, convinced it was good for us. So we duly thought it was lovely, not noticing she never ate it herself...
My partner's dad was from a similar area and he also loved it, with vinegar. His later life was in London, where I assume he could also get it.

SnowFrogJelly · 15/07/2026 12:09

InterestedDad37 · 14/07/2026 00:15

I'm an adventurous eater - but tripe is a big no-no. I last ate it 40 years ago.
Kids will never know the urine smell of a public telephone box either. That's on a par with tripe 😂

Still get that in the entrance to our multi storey car park…

QueenSmartypants · 15/07/2026 12:04

TorroFerney · 15/07/2026 11:57

have you never had liver , that has pipes. You’ve not lived, hitting a pipe it’s a bit like eating pork scratchings and getting a soft almost fluid bit!

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🤢

TorroFerney · 15/07/2026 11:57

QueenSmartypants · 14/07/2026 01:37

Pipes?

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have you never had liver , that has pipes. You’ve not lived, hitting a pipe it’s a bit like eating pork scratchings and getting a soft almost fluid bit!

fuckedoffwiththesummer · 15/07/2026 11:55

My DDog has it… it fucking stinks 🤢

Mingou · 15/07/2026 11:42

I can buy tripe in my local butchers. I mean I don't, but I could

MissFancyDay · 15/07/2026 11:40

VincaBlue · 15/07/2026 11:02

Tesco sells haslet

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Is it the proper stuff though, made with all sorts.

Howmanycatsistoomany · 15/07/2026 11:04

Tripe's still readily available here in France. The culinary capital of the world! 😂

VincaBlue · 15/07/2026 11:02

MissFancyDay · 14/07/2026 23:33

Well I never!! I grew up in Wisbech in the Fens, spot on 😃

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Tesco sells haslet

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 15/07/2026 09:11

Nat6999 · 14/07/2026 00:55

Are you by any chance talking about Sheffield Market? My mum used to cook Tripe & Onions when I was a kid with a mountain of mashed potatoes, I was never keen on the mash but I loved the Tripe & Onions, I always had an enormous bowl full & always went back for seconds, the only downside was getting the saucepan clean afterwards as it always used to catch on the inside of the pan. I still eat it now if ds is shopping in the Market, he brings me a 5kg bag & I cut it up into pieces & freeze it in meal sized portions, happily now I cook it in my Ninja 11 in 1 which means I no longer have a saucepan that is only fit for the bin afterwards.

I immediately thought of Sheffield market too. It was glorious! So many butchers and fish mongers. And if we are talking old Sheffield, what about pork butchers? Everything pig related from chops to crackling.
We werent a tripe household, but DH remembers going on sea side holidays with gps and aunties and them having tripe and cow heel and other offally delights as a treat!

PinkNailPolish2026 · 14/07/2026 23:49

I’ve never seen a tripe stall but MIL cooked it regularly with onions and milk. We used to use a lot of green tripe to feed the dogs but the slaughter houses have much stricter controls and laws now and it’s almost impossible to get green tripe direct from them so we make do with the bleached stuff.

I still make pressed tongue and haslet, we eater liver once or twice a month and the dogs love heart.

MissFancyDay · 14/07/2026 23:39

60andcounting · 14/07/2026 20:17

I think that would be heart. I've never had liver with tubes.
I love heart..

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No It was definitely liver, cows probably. It must have been the hepatic artery or vein or something. Whatever it was it was horrible.

And we had it every week.

MissFancyDay · 14/07/2026 23:33

WhitstablePearl · 14/07/2026 20:27

Yes to Haslet . Where in the country are you? I have only ever seen it in East Anglia.

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Well I never!! I grew up in Wisbech in the Fens, spot on 😃

climbintheback · 14/07/2026 22:50

What about lamb fries (testicles) dads favourite

PauliesWalnuts · 14/07/2026 21:59

My grandad made “head cheese” when I was little. I ate it and it was nice but just googled it and wish I hadn’t…

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