Sounds delicious, eh? It also sounds like something that people must eat in some far flung corner of Asia, right? Cambodia, Korea, Japan? Actually, if you are reading this from the US of A, you can head down south and pick yourself up a can of Pork Brains yourself. This is an Armour product (the brand that makes the hot dogs) and sold across Southern America.
If you squint a bit, you can see on the label:
Cholest. 3500mg 1170%
Yes, that does say 3,500mg of Cholesterol, which is 1,170% of your recommended daily intake. This product also contains Sodium Nitrite, a colour fixative and preservative for meat products – but interestingly, four grams are lethal to you or me, yet it can also be used as an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
And there’s not just one brand of Pork Brains in Milk Gravy, oh no. You get a choice between Armour and Rose brand!
Oddly, the only recipe for Pork Brains in Gravy I could find (it seems that Pork Brains are also popular in their uncanned form in Asia, but we’ll cover that in a separate post) was submitted by The Honorable Howard Coble, United States Congressman, North Carolina to the Congress Cooks site. Here is his recipe! It even contains bacon grease in case the brains didn’t have enough cholesterol in them!!
When I was a youngster, my mom used to prepare Brains N’ Eggs for breakfast. It was a fairly regular breakfast, not at all unusual. So that’s when I started eating them. I’ve enjoyed them ever since, but I can’t find any on Capitol Hill. I’ll admit the name of the dish is not the most appetizing, but try ‘em, you might like ‘em!
- Ingredients
- 2-1/2 Tablespoons bacon grease
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup whole milk
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 can (5 ounce) pork brains in gravy (Rose Brand preferred)
Melt bacon grease in an iron skillet on low heat. Add pork brains to heated grease. Stir with a fork. Add salt and pepper and stir. Whisk eggs and milk together. Increase heat and add egg mixture to brains. Scramble to desired consistency. Serve immediately over toast. For a truly southern dish, serve with grits and apple butter.
Serves: 2
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Hello my name is Harold Pearce and I was wondering if they still sell them my Dad introduce me to them when I was a little boy and it was something he and I ate together on the weekend and I still enjoy them every once in the while but
I am not able to find them in the stores where I live.So can you tell me if they are still available?
Do they stiil sell them I like them every once in a while. My Dad introduce them to me when I wasa little boy it was something we ate together on the weekend.
Yes they are still available!! My 91 year old grandma goes to missippi about 3 times a year and she always brings me a case of them….She goes over by Tupelo…Im sure you can order them online as well!!!
Pork brains in milk is in all the local grocery stores in eastern NC. My in laws still kill 10-15 hogs every winter. Everything but the “grunt” can be eaten from a hog. The heads are always split and the brains saved for cooking with scrambled eggs. I ate them as a child but would not recommend eating them now because of the high cholesterol.
Not that I’d eat them, but the level of cholesterol isn’t a problem. Most people just still don’t know the difference between dietary and blood cholesterol. The body produces about 85% of the cholesterol in the blood. Its the saturated fat (which your body turns into cholesterol), not the dietary cholesterol itself that has a significant effect on level in your blood.
My grandfather was a Powhattan from Goochland County, Va. He used to prepare fresh brains ‘n’ eggs when he was a little girl. Fortunately, I was too young to partake any as this was something he only had for few days after butchering a hog, and treated it like it was caviar. I bet he’d have been glad to know about this product.
I meant when I was a little girl…my grandfather was never a little girl!!
^Sounds like the pork brains n eggs put more than just hair on his chest
when i was a young lad my grandpappy and i used to eat sticks of poop and wash down with warm glasses of urine.He would have loved a product like this as well
This product contains sodium nitrite- not nitrate. Still lethal in large quantities, nitrites occur natually even in vegetables. They’re common in wine as well.
That being said, I think I’m going to go vomit.
back in the day me and my son used to shit in a cup and eat it til we threw up on each other. Then end it with a golden shower from grandmammies hairy wrinkled beat up snatch. Boy those were the days, now ima go masterbate and make me a tasty pork brains and octopus sandwich
I eat three cans a day. I’m fat.
Nick is right on target with his observation of pork brains and eggs growing hair on a person. Cholesterol is what’s required by the body as source matter for making all of your steroidal hormones. Hormones regulate all your organ functions and those visible gender traits. Without any cholesterol in your body your organs would shut down and you’d be dead.
Also fat consumption is a negative total calorie source. It requires more energy and calories to convert fat in to usable energy than you get from it. It’s simple carbohydrates that make people fat because it’s easiest to metabolize in to usable energy and if you don’t use it right away in exercise it’s converted to human fat.
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I believe it says sodium nitrite, not nitrate. Chemically a pretty big difference.
pedro, you are right – typo now corrected. At least we got the description right!
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