How do you like your Chitlins cooked?

Chitlin tartare.

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In another state.

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Preferably even another country.

Tied in the crawfish bait sack.

I have heard my Dad (RIP) say a hundred times if you are boiling Chitlins and company shows up just as you are finishing, you need to put a piece or two of corn at the edge of the pile and you will be guaranteed there will be enough for everyone.

Never had any cooked in any manner in my house, or my parents' house.

There is an ethnic dining establishment on Medgar Evers Drive in Jackson that in big letters on the side of the building, they have painted.

FRESH CHITTERLINGS FRIED DAILY

I always figured they wanted you to know what the place smelled like before entering.

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I have been told by folks I worked with that there is a real art to slinging chitlins at a hog killing.

In the early 1980's I started my career in the Mississippi delta. I was fresh out of the midwest and walked into the local Safeway. More than half of the meat section was "Chitterlings". This was something that I never knew even existed. It was like learning the language on an alien planet.

Answer - on a different planet.

My granddaddy loved them but my meemaw wouldn’t let him cook them in the house. My dad’s best friend loved to tell the story of them showing up at my grandparents house and granddaddy was out back frying chitterlings. My dad’s friend looked waaaay up in the air and there were buzzards circling

frickin gross

I'm sorry, but there are just some things that aren't meant to be eaten