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Original poster

to ask if anyone here actually likes andouilettes?

74 replies

bringincrazyback · 04/02/2024 15:17

Inspired by a previous thread. (For those who don't know what they are: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/experiences/food-and-wine-holidays/93481824/andouillette-one-of-the-things-you-must-never-try-eating-in-france)

I'm genuinely curious, some people must like these presumably, or no one would be bothering to manufacture them? But even allowing for the fact that different people like to eat different things - including various other gag-inducing parts of animals - I cannot for the life of me imagine how anyone could enjoy eating these?

YABU: I like andouilettes
YANBU: I dislike them or haven't heard of them

Stuff

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/experiences/food-and-wine-holidays/93481824/andouillette-one-of-the-things-you-must-never-try-eating-in-france

OP posts:
ExtraOnions · 04/02/2024 15:22

I saw Rick Stein tucking in … made me gip

peakygold · 04/02/2024 15:39

How bored must you be to post this?

InAMess2023 · 04/02/2024 15:41

It's not something I'd deliberately ask for but I'd probably give it a try if I was offered some...

But I say that as someone who recently went to Japan and tried amongst other things whole baby octopus, raw sea urchin (quite possibly the most disgusting thing ever) and some sheep intestine so 🤷‍♀️

littleteapot86 · 04/02/2024 15:45

I lived in France for a few years and not long after I first arrived, and before my French was up to scratch, I ordered a savoury crêpe with andouillette on it 🤢

twilightcafe · 04/02/2024 15:45

They look (and I guess taste) like sausages made from Whiskas cat food.

OneTC · 04/02/2024 15:47

Had it France a couple of years ago, was out with a friend in a bistro and it was on the menu, we're generally interested in regional food and neither of us are fussy eaters.

Very nice, if you like that kind of thing

LeavesOnTrees · 04/02/2024 15:47

No, ordered once in a restaurant. Never again.
My DH does though. Very strange.

Batteredoldchesterfield · 04/02/2024 15:50

peakygold · 04/02/2024 15:39

How bored must you be to post this?

What did you want to achieve by writing this? Feeling better?

OP I ordered them once, not really knowing what they were. Not pleasant!

YorkshireGoddess · 04/02/2024 15:51

DH and I made the mistake of ordering this in France once...Never again 🤢

Veggieveggiecoke · 04/02/2024 15:52

peakygold · 04/02/2024 15:39

How bored must you be to post this?

And your point is?

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 04/02/2024 15:53

My father tricked me into eating some when I was a child. I had already tried it and didn't like it, but "that was Andouille, not Andouilettes". Ironically, I tried it at a grillhouse last time I was in France and came to the realisation that I would probably like eating it now if it wasn't tainted with mockery...

GalileoHumpkins · 04/02/2024 15:54

peakygold · 04/02/2024 15:39

How bored must you be to post this?

Are you going to post that on every single thread? If not I'm not sure what your point was.

OP, I'm a vegetarian so not something I'd order but the description alone is enough to make me feel sick.

BringOnFebBankHoliday · 04/02/2024 15:55

peakygold · 04/02/2024 15:39

How bored must you be to post this?

How rude!!!!
If you're not interested, don't read the thread.

SinnerBoy · 04/02/2024 15:57

I just couldn't bring myself to even try it. I watched a food programme and a French gastronome described it as perfect, with just the slightest whiff of shit.

Envy
BringOnFebBankHoliday · 04/02/2024 15:58

All I've heard is How horrible it is never heard anyone like it.

CaineRaine · 04/02/2024 16:00

peakygold · 04/02/2024 15:39

How bored must you be to post this?

How bored must YOU be to post this reply? 🤷🏻‍♀️

FoxBaseBeta · 04/02/2024 16:04

As DH will eat anything, he's tried it, he informed me he won't be eating it again though, ever.

Genetta · 04/02/2024 16:22

Whilst living in France, we went on a whole day course on Cajun dance. Several hours of instruction followed by a meal and then a 'bal'. The meal arrived, the SW. France adaptation of Jambalaya complete with andouilettes. Husband ate it as he was starving. I just couldn't in spite of being starving and hypo (T1 diabetes). The smell did it for me. Luckily there was bread.

When I was at nursery, in England, they served up tripe for lunch and when I didn't eat it, they presented it again for tea ( I am 'old'! ). That put me off for life.

ginasevern · 04/02/2024 16:49

I've never tried it but I love offal. I was brought up with traditional food and we had a small holding with animals. So I would definitely give it a go. Strange how English people are so reviled by offal - and vegetables and fish and just about anything that isn't processed and breaded.

Allthatwegotisthispalebluedot · 04/02/2024 16:53

I’m a vegetarian so wouldn’t eat this but I’m not inherently against it based on the ‘thought’ of it. Why is eating one part of an animal worse than eating another part? It’s all grim to me.

BouleDeSuif · 04/02/2024 16:57

I would give them a go if they were offered to me.

SinnerBoy · 04/02/2024 17:05

ginasevern · Today 16:49

I've never tried it but I love offal. I was brought up with traditional food and we had a small holding with animals. So I would definitely give it a go. Strange how English people are so reviled by offal - and vegetables and fish and just about anything that isn't processed and breaded.

I'll eat almost anything, but something which smells of shit and has the potential, if prepared badly, to kill you, isn't high on my list of foods to try.

OneTC · 04/02/2024 17:06

ginasevern · 04/02/2024 16:49

I've never tried it but I love offal. I was brought up with traditional food and we had a small holding with animals. So I would definitely give it a go. Strange how English people are so reviled by offal - and vegetables and fish and just about anything that isn't processed and breaded.

I wonder what people think are in the sausages they eat in Britain Grin

Vegemiteandhoneyontoast · 04/02/2024 17:12

That's why we make our own sausages. They are very different to shop sausages.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 04/02/2024 17:13

I don’t like salt cod, either.