to ask if anyone here actually likes andouilettes?

[bringincrazyback]

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

From what I’ve heard, it’s not even that nice. I’m pretty adventurous with food, but this seems like a step too far!

Not bored, curious 🙂

Ahhh bum sausage as it is known in my house. Tried it once, won’t be repeating the experience.

Do you stereotype all nations or just specific ones? Utterly bizarre post.

I’m a huge Francophile, but non merci. Years ago I was in France with the military and this was on the set menu… not popular. And I can still remember them looking like (rather large) boiled penises. You can imagine the comments… 🤢

Nope, I have a high tolerance for strong tasting food (love Stilton, black pudding, oysters, fois gras and rare steak) but I couldn’t get past the smell. No way.

I think it’s maybe one of the things you have to develop a taste for when young.

You've reminded me of a time my poor DH ordered these in a very nice restaurant in Paris years ago (before he was my DH). We were with my parents who were paying for the meal and my DH was too embarrassed to say they were utterly disgusting and he ate the lot. He still feels ill thinking about it 25 years later.

Live here half the year and i can eat 99.9% of things but not these.

Even local waiters will steer English tourists away from ordering this abomination..

@ginasevern Andouilettes are nothing like offal, they are more like the left overs from offal that the local pigs wouldn't eat, marinated in cows piss, packed into a skin, partially cooked and served up on a plate, oh and left in the sun for 48hrs too.

I think a lot of foods aren’t very nice if you didn’t grow up eating them or foods like them and especially offal where the textures can be unlike anything else. I have a Nigerian friend who cooked a traditional meal and I really wanted to enjoy it but it included lots of ingredients like liver, tripe etc which I really can’t stand, whilst in her mind the dishes were among her favourites. Similarly when in Asia I was cooked meals with chicken feet, congealed blood, intestine etc and couldn’t enjoy them despite trying but again, they were seen as delicious by those who cooked and shared them. I couldn’t really enjoy durian or bitter gourd or fermented tofu either so it’s not just meat. I don’t like the look of andouillettes and doubt I’d enjoy them, I also wouldn’t eat snails or frogs legs or liver or kidney or many other foods served in France, but it’s not exactly news or shocking to me that people can eat and enjoy these things.

No not all nations. Mostly just the British and Americans when it comes to food. In my experience kids from both nations would generally rather have processed chicken nuggets than anything resembling real food. I'm not exactly the first person on the planet to comment on this so I don't subscribe to it being utterly bizarre.

Quite. Or in turkey twizzlers or whatever awful stuff lurks in the freezer. I'd far rather have some good honest pigs intestines!

Never had this but it reminds me of Kokoretsi (lamb intestines wrapped around heart/kidney/lung on a skewer and grilled) which even the look of makes me gip but my Dad is obsessed.

I will eat almost anything, but I couldn't even get this in my mouth due to the smell. Smelled like the worst public toilet 🤢

Yeah reading about it further my dad would definitely enjoy an andouillette

Yabu I like them!!!!

You need a third option, OP!

YADNBU Yes I've heard of them but have no desire to try them, as long as I live 😁

@ginasevern must have taken you an awfully long time to visit the eating habits of all 390m people in the UK and US...

As mentioned in my previous comment I've recently been to Japan which is often lauded as an incredibly healthy country with a diet to match... I couldn't begin to tell you how much deep fried stuff is on their menus even in traditional areas and the amount of complete and utter processed crap that's on offer in their convenience stores

ErinAoife · Today 18:40

Yabu I like them!!!!

You are wrong! On the internet!!

😀

Are anything remotely like tripe (are they made from tripe?), just thinking about it churns my stomach.
My dad would cook tripe for our dog and even though that was 40 years ago I still feel as though that stench is still trapped in my nostrils - ugh!

Love it. But it’s not something exotic for me, just something we regularly have when visiting the French side of the family. Mustard sauce and a glass or four of Aligoté to accompany (it’s a bit of a waste of expensive wine so the cheap stuff is fine).

I really like andouillettes and have eaten them many times on holiday.

I’ll eat any offal, including tripe.

Ha ha years ago when I first lived in France I took my luncheon vouchers to the neighbourhood restaurant and they were on the set lunch menu. I asked what they were and the owner said-You are English? No-you won’t like them-she was right!

Much as I love living in Britain, British people like to pretend that widely available nice food wasn't invented in the last 20 years and do this whole What Don't You Know We Love the Food thing when you suggest that most of the nation eats like complete shite still

What an odd, bitchy thing to say.

Was offered a taste of a homemade andouilette by a French chap. They do indeed smell of shit. I managed a very small polite nibble. My vegetarian husband politely declined and smothered his laughter.