This is the most majestic creature I've ever seen /single tear

There's something very adorable about that thing....

some of the most epic stuff happens on paper placemats at restaurants...

I always have a sharpie, and I pretty much always draw something dumb. When my friend and I go drinking in bars I usually leave weird drawings on the receipts for the wait staff to find.

So sugary, she vomits electricity... me likee. And those tables with the paper were the joy of my teenagerdom, when I was too drained to converse before dinner arrived.

How was the pig brain?

Squishy, but good, like mild flavored meat pudding. They poach it in herbs and butter, but I'd like to try it with a little sear some time.

That's a new one... nicely mild and squishy, so is it more mouthfeel than taste, or vice versa?
I hear it's good when pan-fried in olive oil, but that's my pastor talking... he came to Chicago from Texas, so his barbecue combines southern meatiness and portion sizes with quality northern organic food, I get the best recipes from him.

I'd say it's both, the flavor's mild, but it's still very nice, I thought I wouldn't like something so squishy but I enjoy it, it's got a good mouth feel. Not like when you get a snotty piece of fat in your soup, more velvety I guess. I'm sure it depends on how you cook it.

I'd really like to pick some up and pan fry it myself, but I've never put the effort into finding a brain to cook. I should ask one of the local farms, they'd probably be happy to find someone willing to buy a brain, or a whole head. I'd like to buy a hog's head and use as much of it as possible, I like trying all the weird parts.

Sounds like good stuff. I'd like to try more southern style food, but I'd probably have to approach it the way your pastor does, otherwise I'd probably feel pretty sick, haha.

Sounds like something I wouldn't mind eating! I have relatives who are immense picky eaters, so I try to distance myself from them. (There's a family condition that we have some stomach cells in the esophagus, so we're prone to acid reflux. My uncle has that, and his wife is a terrible picky eater, so they raised their kids in the blandest of culinary households. They didn't know until they were ten (on average) that they could put butter on corn on the cob. So a bit more velvety... I wonder how boiled brain would taste, although it'd probably fall apart. It's fatty, but the fat isn't in one big lump like gristle, it's more spread out like corned beef, is what you're saying?

Ah, that sounds so fun! I wish you immense luck; make yourself some headcheese, too!

Southern food uses the whole pig XD There's no vegetables that can survive the layer of frying they undergo. So some of this is new to him... I just ate at one of his barbecues tonight (fundraiser), ironically... it was potluck, so not much that's authentically his, but it brings back memories of one barbecue he cooked in Kentucky, with pulled pork with five spices, seared brisket steak, roasted saltwater corn on the cob, salted watermelon, he knows how to bring every flavor out of any type of food.
Southern cooking, though, aside from the barbecues, gives you no reason to suspect the obesity epidemic as happening anywhere else. You remember the Diner scene in "My Cousin Vinny?" It's accurate. (If you haven't seen "My Cousin Vinny," you simply MUST. One of the best films ever.)

naw, not like gristle at all. I'll eat a lot of weird stuff, but wads of fat an gristle I can't stomach, the fat in brain is pretty evenly distributed. Not marbled or anything like that, it's pretty homogeneous.

I do want to make head cheese, I've had ok head cheese but I'm sure I could make something better with a good recipe.

To be fair we have some pretty nasty food here in the midwest, too. lots of cheese and creamy sauces and fried crap. half the things we call 'salad' are doused in mayo.

I want to try it <3 And good luck with the headcheese! I don't know if you have to keep the brain inside for that to work...

In Michigan right now, I can tell you, outside of Chicago and Grand Rapids the food's pretty bad. The cheese is tasteless and omnipresent, there's so much damn carbs, and not even good mayo, and it still has no place on a salad. We found an artisan bread place near us and it's water in the desert, their food...
And it's not even like the south, where the food is nasty but tasty. Here it's just nasty.

I stopped at one of these restaurants, think it was Garfield's on the way to an anime convention and so had a lot of others because there was table drawn anime hanging all over the dining room. Seems the staff was so impressed by the quality of all the artwork they decided to keep it and display it for awhile.