Dear Maggie, YUK !!! :[ (ughhhhhhhhhhh !!!) Glenda >No Mags I saw it last week on Oldham market. >BTW we were told that Barnsley market is well worth a visit. Is it worth a >30 mile trip? Anybody live there? >Jim Sharpe >----- Original Message ----- >From: <MagsB1942@aol.com> >To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 5:39 PM >Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Co-op - Brawn > > >> In a message dated 24/11/00 16:13:26 GMT Standard Time, >> sharpe@britishlibrary.net writes: >> >> << never liked Brawn since as a child someone told me it was made from >cow >> and sheep brains. >> >> >> I hate to tell you but my late father-in-law used to make it from boiling >a >> complete pigs head and stripping the meat off. Quite put me off too - I >> used to like it before I saw it in the pot. I don't know if the >commercial >> version is made that way - probably just have a bigger pot!!! It is >probably >> banned nowaday because of BSE. You couldn't make it from sheep because >they >> get scrapie - which is similar to BSE and has been around for hundreds of >> years. >> >> Regards. >> Maggie