Souse

[Wobblyshot1]

Every year at Christmas time I like to indulge in a little souse. It's the only time of the year I do this. Zeigler hot souse is my go to. The only place I can find it is at a mom and pop grocery in Murfreesboro.

 

[younggun308]

Looks delicious!

 

[Popcorn]

I truly love good souse! My Grand mother taught me how to make good clean spicy souse back in the 70's. It's a lot of work but worth it.

 

[WTM]

mawmaw made a soup out of it. it was pretty good.

 

[RUGER]

Love me some souse !

Best I ever had came from the slaughterhouse in Mayfield.
Hmmm, I wonder if it is even there anymore.

 

[Trapper John]

...The only place I can find it is at a mom and pop grocery in Murfreesboro.

Jr's?

 

[gtk]

I love hot souse, however, it decided it doesn't love me for some reason. The last 2 times I ate it, i had the worst indigestion I've ever had.

 

[Carlos Viagra]

You can have mine, I'm not hungry!

 

[Wobblyshot1]

Jr's?

Yep!

 

[Spurhunter]

I grew up rabbit hunting with my Dad. We would always eat lunch on the tailgate. Hot souse, crackers, pork rinds, and hostess yellow cupcakes. Nutritious and delicious!

 

[bigtex]

I ate it when I was a kid without knowing what it was made of. Was eating it one time and bit down on something hard. Spit it out and it was a hogs tooth.
I asked my dad "what's this stuff made out of?" He said it's got everything in it from the rooter to the tooter. That ended my souse meat eatin.............

 

[Carlos Viagra]

I grew up rabbit hunting with my Dad. We would always eat lunch on the tailgate. Hot souse, crackers, pork rinds, and hostess yellow cupcakes. Nutritious and delicious!

Is it seriously nutritious?

 

[RobDooley]

I can still see that hog's head soaking

 

[Moonman]

Is it seriously nutritious?

When your hungry anything provides nutrition. Just Saying

 

[Shag]

Nope. Not for me. But to each their own.

 

[TAFKAP]

Is it seriously nutritious?

Well sure. Fat, protein, and collagen are all nutrients. So is salt.

 

[chris1976]

Love the stuff. Have since I was a kid. Sounds like some have never had to go hungry

 

[Carlos Viagra]

Love the stuff. Have since I was a kid. Sounds like some have never had to go hungry

I've been hungry before, even gone hungry a few times. Still, I can't say I'd ever consider trying it more than once!

 

[chris1976]

I've been hungry before, even gone hungry a few times. Still, I can't say I'd ever consider trying it more than once!

Spoiled

 

[Teacher]

I raised and killed my own hogs back in the '70s while putting myself through college. Souse meat-aka Hog Head Cheese was a family favorite! We had my grandparents all come and we would kill a hog and process it. One of my jobs was splitting the head with an axe. The trick was trying to get it done without getting a lot of small bone chips in the head! We would sugar cure the hams and they were the best you could imagine! I still have a few pictures somewhere of all the family processing hogs. Grandparents and parents are all gone now, and I can only imagine what my kids would do if I started doing this again!

Kids today dont have a clue what we did when we grew up! Remember lard and chittlins'? I never cared for the chittlins as they were the guts. I also never liked the pickled pigs feet Daddy used to make. Too many bones and too much gristle for me. We ate basically everything else we could sink our teeth in! Those were some great times then and I never knew it!

 

[Carlos Viagra]

You guys must have been awfully hungry at times.
I'm not that hungry RN.

 

[Teacher]

You guys must have been awfully hungry at times.
I'm not that hungry RN.

It wasn't that we were that hungry, that was just the way of life my parents grew up with and we really didn't know any better. These were shining times and we never knew it. I would love to go back and do it all over again. Folks have no idea what they missed. Kinda like when we cleaned chitlins-Do you know how we did it! We slung the crap out of em'.

 

[Wolverine72]

Never even heard of this stuff.. I'm totally gonna try it. I bet it would make some fantastic burritos.
My family started a tradition about 12 years ago. We make breakfast burritos on Christmas eve day. We make 2 kinds one with regular sausage and another with chorizo. We have breakfast burritos for several days.
Burritos, homemade salsa and sour cream... best ever breakfast food.
Next year we'll be adding these to the menu! Sausage, chorizo and sauce! Sounds delicious!

 

[double browtine]

I tried it when I was a kid and didn't know any better. It's really no worse than eating potted meat or Vienna sausages. About the same thing goes in it. Everything but the squeal!

 

[Teacher]

I tried it when I was a kid and didn't know any better. It's really no worse than eating potted meat or Vienna sausages. About the same thing goes in it. Everything but the squeal!

Ever eat a Chicken McNugget from McDonald's ??? I guarantee you homemade souse is a lot more appealing if you looked at the contents! Gotta watch that pink meat they make a grind with!

If any of you do try some souse meat, get the Zeigler's mild or hot. This is the best on the shelves nowadays. I like the hot best of all. Get a piece about the size of a tobacco plug and you can make a fine tailgate lunch.

 

[tnanh]

Never even heard of this stuff.. I'm totally gonna try it. I bet it would make some fantastic burritos.
My family started a tradition about 12 years ago. We make breakfast burritos on Christmas eve day. We make 2 kinds one with regular sausage and another with chorizo. We have breakfast burritos for several days.
Burritos, homemade salsa and sour cream... best ever breakfast food.
Next year we'll be adding these to the menu! Sausage, chorizo and sauce! Sounds delicious!

Don't think you can warm up souse. Left some on the front seat of my truck one time when I went fishing. Went back to get it after about an hour and it had completely melted through the bag. Glad I had seat covers. I like slicing it and putting it in a bowl of vinegar and eating it with good cheese.

 

[TAFKAP]

It wasn't that we were that hungry, that was just the way of life my parents grew up with and we really didn't know any better. These were shining times and we never knew it. I would love to go back and do it all over again. Folks have no idea what they missed. Kinda like when we cleaned chitlins-Do you know how we did it! We slung the crap out of em'.

I've heard a good hand wringing will clean the crap out of them too

 

[Carlos Viagra]

You guys are killing me, always thought I wasn't picky until this came up.

 

[Wobblyshot1]

Kind of a refined way of making it but you'll get the idea. BTW, his looks delicious.

 

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