to ask if anyone here actually likes andouilettes?

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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

Horrible- was served some at friends' in Normandy- could not eat them, so embarrassing. NEVER EVER again!

I’ve never heard of them until now!

Vegetarian so that gets me off the hook!

And yet if you check Fergus Henderson's traditional English recipes in "Nose to Tail" there's offal on roughly every other page. And very yummy they are, too.

I can eat liver and like it .... mostly anyway, haggis and black pudding too. But, it's the smell of other things ( I've a really acute sense of smell). The smell of tripe made me feel quite ill.

Fair point, I wondered if anyone would say that. 😄

There's definitely a psychological element to these things, but having tried various offal and hated it all, I'm certain andouillettes wouldn't be for me either... 🤢

Don't get me started... my dad was in the meat industry. 😄

Being given this during a family France holiday age about 12 was one of the final triggers that set me to being vegetarian for the next 35 years ish. Yanbu.

A friend of mine once ordered one on holiday, not knowing what it was. She couldn't stomach it, but she sent me a pic of the plate before she attempted it, and I remember thinking it looked exactly like a horse's penis. I think that would possibly taste a bit less awful, though... (not that I'd try that either!)

That would be me for sure! 😂

I do think it makes a difference what someone grew up eating, as pps have pointed out. DH thinks it's gross that I used to eat tongue sandwiches when I was little, but my grandma used to give me them and I never gave it a second thought... until I really started to think about the fact that my lunch had been inside a cow's mouth before it was in mine 😄which put me off a bit, but I carried on eating tongue because I liked it by then.

Bleurgh.

I had chitterlings in Normandy once. Gross.

In fact a lot of French food is horrible. I've spent a fair amount of time on holiday there to come to this assertion.

Sorry France. 🇫🇷 Your rustic fare is not for me.

Love French food and happily eat offal, but andouillette stink. My French MIL loves it, give me celeriac remoulade any day.

Vegan so won't be trying it, but I used to live in France. I remember my dad coming to visit me, and he was very proud of how he would eat anything. He lost that status over andouilettes and could definitely not finish his lunch 🤢I don't think I've ever seen him waste food before.

Rude

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I've found something even worse 😱

I definitely shouldn't have come back to this thread while eating breakfast! 🤢🤢

Likewise am vegetarian now, but grew up eating sheep’s head and offal, pig’s feet etc. It’s all meat.

I’ve had them once in France, just to try. They were OK, but I wouldn’t have them again. My French SiL thought I was mad!

Similar offal stuff was eaten in the U.K. not so long ago, though. OK, it was ages ago, but I once found my elderly student landlady eating something I didn’t recognise - with apparent relish. What was it? I asked.
Chitterlings - fried pigs’ intestines.
She had told me before that when she was a child her family was very poor.

Another time she gave me some cold meat that looked a bit like tongue (which I didn’t really like anyway) but paler.
What was it? I asked.
‘Udder’. !!!!
But having been brought up to be polite and eat what I was given, I ate it anyway.

Well that's rather rude!

The OP is making sure that anyone holidaying in France does not fall into the trap of actually placing a morsel of this disgusting food in their mouth! I have had this - it is beyond foul.

I didn't know what they were so just googled it and wish I hadn't! They look revolting.

Too lumpy for me. And I tried it when I didn't know what it is. I was a kid though, so maybe palate has changed. But I'm not really an offal person, so quite likely not.

I thought this was mumsnet and yet no-one has pointed out that bulls don't have vaginas. 😂

I have eaten this twice in France - once to try and the second time when I incorrectly remembered it being something else I liked.

It smells like dog turd and tastes how I'd imagine dog turd would taste.

I am not a fan.

After reading through this thread, I feel like I never want to eat anything ever again. A pig’s shit tube? Just why. I don’t want anything’s colon in my mouth 🤢

And yet if you check the average British dinner table 25 years later you'd find very little offal and a big point of the book was to raise awareness of the bits of the animal that were no longer commonly eaten in the UK