As a Native growing up in the South in North Carolina we ate just about every part of the 🐖 pig Or any animal we had Generations of Good Soul Cooking and Family time I sure miss Them days My mom grandmother not here anymore but i took up their Skills and babee im so Thankful for all!! R.i.p. to my ancestors who are no longer with us and Thankyou for all you've taught/Given me especially them Soulful recipes!!❤❤❤❤
@@3RDEYEDNTLIE Waste not, want not. One thing about it, they made whatever they cooked taste good. I can hear the descendants of the slave owner saying, you mean they were eating this good? 😂
Right there with you! Feel free to shoot any of your recipes my way. Especially authentic cornbread dressing. Waiting for it to get a little cooler before I cook a batch of dem chitlins and hook up some coleslaw
Yea I agree. It’s somewhat a stereotype. But I’m 33 never had any chitlins, not even a drop of chitlin juice but I’ve seen people eat them at family functions , they just didn’t intrigue me to want a taste 😅I just remember for sum reason chitlins always caused some strange excitement , so this video is interesting for sure lol
Buy precleaned in clear bags. I like Aunt Bessie's or Danish. Cost more but once thawed, takes no time to rinse and wash. Usually have 5 or 6 guys. Don't have that smell. Pour water off as they cook. Add hog maws and cook until done. The buckets contain 8 pounds of water and 2 pounds of torn chitterlings. Hard to clean and cook. I've used these for at least fifteen years and am a happy camper. Don't let price scare you. Uncle Lou's are okay. I had a problem and they refunded my money. Great company service. Never buckets again!
😮😮😮😮 WHAT !!!!!!!! AND TO THINK DURING THE SLAVERY TIMES THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE MASTER THREW AWAY AND THE BLACK PEOPLE GOT IT TO EAT IT BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THEY HAD. NOW THE PRICE OF HIS HIDING STEAK UNBELIEVABLE !!!!!!!!!
I did eat my grandmother and aunts also only because I knew they were clean It stopped with my generation my Children would run to keep from eating them😂
I'm a first generation Sicilian American. I like them with greens, macaroni and cheese, cornbread and hot sauce. Poor folks from all over the world eat the same shit. They just put a different sauce in it.
Buy precleaned. Thaw and put in water to wash. Only one piece of small fat in over fifteen years. The bags let you see them. I normally clean and cook for friends. They trust me and know they are clean. I hate those big buckets. Eight pounds of ice and two pounds of guts. Torn and disgusting and stink. Thaw bag in water unopened. Cinch and very little smell. The buckets are washed in bleach and salt and torn by machines.😊
They might have started out a poorman's meal but AS far as I'm concerned, its a DELIACY! The 2lbs I cooked up last week were just as expensive as fresh Maine lobster!
Always cracks me up when people think that this is something that all Black people eat. I’m from Germany, chitlins are eaten on a daily basis, they are extremely popular there. I don’t eat them, but I won’t knock anybody who does
Nah, but its apart of our blk american culture, like some people bring up watermelon as a insult, when watermelon is a healthy nourishment. Not all of us eat it either. IMO that is something we should eat on the regular
@@Abstract.Noir414 It's a European given to us part of our culture & not originally actually part of our culture This is the often vital overlooked part
I reading how everyone dislikes chittlins and how gross they are but let's not forget what a natural casing is when it comes to sausage. So in one way or another you are eating an animal's intestines. It's ok not to like them.
I was in Japan having dinner and they bought out a plate of raw meat to be grilled at the table. All the white people with me wondered what a curious slither of meat was that was being grilled. I knew right away...they were grilling chitlins in Japan...they were delicious...lol.
I don't eat intestines that's some of the nastiest stuff you can consume, and yes that includes sausage with pork casing, but I don't eat pork at all🤷🏿♂️ so no shyt on my plate, and who ever thought to wrap intestines around some seasoned meat was gone out their mind, p.s you wouldn't eat any that smelled like shyt but when it comes to shytlings you'll make an exception 🤢
I just want to thank you for this short and rich history of the reason black folks eat chitlins and the origin of chitlins that I never really knew. Besides being a slave food , I did not know that it was a representation of family values, cultural traditions for holidays such as Christmas and good luck for the New Years. This video was most educational for me and thanks again.
As I've always said, if you call them chitterlings, you definitely don't eat them. That said, my memory of chitlins is playing outdoors for hours (whether I actually wanted to or not) while grown-ups were washing and cooking them. As an adult, I let the entire pig go, innards and outards.
First time I heard them being called Chitterlings. I grew up with blacks. They always called them Chitlins. We call them Tripas. DELICIOUS! especially in taco form
True dat…. My grandmother had away to clean her chittlins and the house didn’t smell. I can count on one hand whose chittlins I ate after I got grown. Now my cousin has passed and my bestie has gout, so I don’t think about tasting no one else. My oldest daughter 50 and son is 48 like them but my youngest daughter 36 and son 35, be like no way. The older one grew up around my grandmother, by the time the 2 others was born grandma had dementia, I told them that was the life…. They say whatever😂😂😂. Sorry being for being long winded.
Growing up my Granny made chitlins,hog maws,and potatoes with bell peppers and onions,i loved it and still love them till this day,i wish i had a bowl right now
One time, I went to my Uncles house and upon entering through the door, this overwhelming smell of FECES hit my nose like a brick wall. I thought someone took a dump in the middle of the living room and let it sit there for days. I could not BELIEVE how foul smelling chitlins were!!! It was so bad, it was the first time I ever got angry at my Uncle for ANYTHING, because I felt attacked. Meanwhile, everyone else in the house was just walking around as if they didn't smell what I was smelling. Well, if you've been living under the same roof as someone who's been cooking it for years, you get accustomed to it. To his credit, he didn't know I was coming, but man did it make me gag the entire short visit I was there.
As a kid that grew up with southern grandparents, I despised that red bucket!!!!!! Seeing that bucket appear in the kitchen a few times a year meant that the house was about to STANK to high hell.... for weeks!!!!!! 🤮 Many times, my granny would prepare 2 buckets worth of this mess. This was to have enough for other people too. Smh!
@@Kam876. Nothing I loved more as a kid than the entire house smelling like a giant bowel movement... for weeeks! 🤣🤣🤣 (Definitely, those are memories to cherish!)
Black is not only loved chitterlings. I worked for white a southern restaurant in Tenn. They had a Thursday night chitterlings, all you can eat. For mostly white morjority. So it's loved by many.
It started with black People who were slaves, slaves cooked for the white slave masters and that’s why many white people down south eat them, because at first chit lings was the scraps the slave masters didn’t want
Wow, just WOW! I'm 70 years old & this excellent educational video shows me that I still am able to learn something that I never knew our #ADOS (& others' ) culture, but I STILL will not eat pork ESPECIALLY stinky chittlin's'! I must admit, however, that there was a time that I was known to "put my foot" in a pot of chittlin's that ALWAYS sold out when offered on the weekend fundraising platter menu! Shalom all. 🦁❤🖤💚
You 😂 one ☝🏾 of the people doing that Holy Land BS. Our people left that area for a reason Eons ago. America, Turtle Island is our land. Taken over by Europeans invaders. Now so many our black citizens are living a lie off converts in a rock we left Eons ago. From Hebrew to American Indian to N Word to Negro to Black to 🤦🏾♂️ African American. We not Africans. A few ancestors did come from Africa recently. We don’t know our history. It’s coming out slowly however. Get the complete picture.
Im an old-school Southern black woman and I don't eat them.. never have.. And my Mother was known as the greatest soul food cook in my area.. also.made anything taste good.
I like chitlins, but I no longer make them. Instead, I cook hog maws (pork stomach). No off putting odor, and the preparation is considerably less labor intensive. I freeze them, then slice them into strips with a very sharp knife once they've thawed a bit. Much more difficult to slice when completely thawed. I then toss them in a crock pot with water and chicken stock or bouillon until very tender. Typically, I throw in lots of onion, some minced garlic, red pepper flakes, bay leaf, rosemary, a little soy sauce, ac vinegar and salt and pepper to taste. Occasionally, I'll prepare chicken gizzards and hearts similarly. No need to slice them, though.
Sounds absolutely delicious 🤤 My mother would always scrape the inside and backside of the pork maws before washing, and cooking them. She scraped them with a sharp knife to remove the slimy flesh from them, it was much easier than cleaning chitterlings. So, if I were to attempt to freeze them before cutting them into strips I will definitely have to scrape them off first.
This was absolutely amazing great information and yes this needs to be printed in a book your video the things you’re saying you broke it down brother you are all right keep up the good work I truly will tell everyone about your channel and this deserves 1 million views or more. Thank you again. Have an amazing day and may God continue to bless your journey I see this channel blowing up for 2024 🙏🏼👍🥰
I loved them as a child growing up in my parents household, then I found out where they really came from, and how unhealthy they are, I haven't eaten any since. That was 22 years ago.
As I got older I realized what I was eating as a child it bothered me, because they came the Intestines of pigs and some from other animals. I said to you can't get those things that clean to eat, now 8 wonder about other things that has been manufactured that we eat ya know.
My father said after WWII in Chicago. You had to go to the packing house and buy chittlins, tripe, pig feet, neck bones, oxtails, tongue, brain, etc for pennies on the pound. Because it wasnt in the store. And once they found out how many blackpeople were eating them. They raised the prices and put it in the supermarket.
Crazy to see things we grew up eating for cheap become so expensive. Especially oxtails. Its mind boggling. We ate oxtails with beans all the time. Now having oxtails is a treat. They are $12.99lb in LA. Smh
My grandma told me stories about eating most of the pig. But chittlins was fed to the dogs, along with other organ meats. With all the feral pigs around, I eat the good parts and feed the rest to my dogs and chickens
@@nadas.5643for real, I saw oxtails in Walmart for 27 bucks a package!! I need 4 packs for my cookouts alone, that ain’t counting what the rest of the meat costs!! Whew , looks like I’m doing pig roasts instead of bbq this year.
When I was a kid my cousins who lived directly next door to my grandparents had a chitlins bucket they were cleaning out.Instead of properly cleaning it they instead had a water hose running in it which overflowed and pieces of leftover chitlin meat/juices were streaming from the backyard to the front into the nearby sewer drainage.Mind you this was in the middle of the summer so the stench was powerful and lasted all day.I never had chitlins before but after that I vowed that's one meal I'll never ever attempt to eat and I'm standing on it still 20 yrs later
I grew up eating them, and I still do eat them, especially with some Texas Pete hot sauce. But last year it was so hard to find a decent bucket or packet. Because by the time you clean them, it was nothing left. You were lucky if you had a handful of chitterlings out of a 10 pound bucket. And yes, I do call them chitterlings.
That cook book is amazing, I bought it because of this Chanel. I have always wondered what Chitlins where and now I know I would only try them from a an African American Momma.
Plenty of poor white families survived on them as well. As did poor people the world over for centuries. But I get your point. When I get Chinese carryout I better see Orientals running the kitchen!
I can recall going to a Chinese restaurant in Alhambra California, "fried chitlins" were on the menu. Written in the Chinese language of course with a translation underneath.
I am a black female who is almost 70 years old. I love to eat chitterlings with hot sauce. Why? To me they taste good. Put them with some corn bread and black eye peas- you got a really yummy meal.
I have never had them! My family didn’t cook them and they were not a staple in my community! However other cultures in our neighborhood did eat versions of chitterlings!
One other fact about " Chittlin's " Chitterlings, They were free at the butcher shop once upon a time, Many Of My Elders have stated this, I believe once It was realized that a profit could be made Then came a Market for them.
My mama cooked them every Christmas if I recall correctly. Because of how important it was to clean them thoroughly, I haven't eaten any since she passed. This is off the subject, but the food shown at 4:52 point in the video reminded me of how I recall my grandmama having cooked a meal and me going to her house after school and she might have fried chicken, cooked collards, cornbread and black eyed peas! She was a phenomenal cook and baker!
There's many things in our culture that needs to go forever, we aint slaves anymore. Our people leveled up in so many different ways over the years. Now we need to focus on mental and physical health. Too many of us have heart disease and diabetes, which are mostly avoidable. Too many of us deal with mental health issues.
I was born and raised in Mississippi. Chitterlings were never a dish served in our home......nor my grandparents. But I do have relatives that eat them. Just something I never wanted.
Before my husband (who is half German) became a pescatarian, he ate chittlins lol. I used to watch him strip the membrane away from the intestines, and they have your house smelling like crap 💩 while they're cooking smh lol. I NEVER partook in eating those things. Smile ❤😅
@@bf1822 You are the one that sounds crazy bc even the smarter slaves who could go hunt or secure their own food during the plantation era didn't eat no damn pig poop & for painfully obvious reasons
If you eat bacon you can eat Chitlins. ‘Oscar Myer’ ready made Chitlins all you have to do is heat them up and eat them up.😋 just put in a pot three sticks of butter or margarine, add onions and green peppers, a table spoon of oregano, two pints of water, tea spoon of salt and tea leaves, add two 3 pound containers of Chitlins. Boil a bag of rice. Boil the Chitlins for about a hour and boil the rice in a separate pot for about a hour. Stir, and after one hour let both sit for 5 minutes. Mix the rice with the Chitlins and invite all your family and friends over to eat. Just don’t tell them what it is until they finish eating all they want. 🙄🤔🤷🏼
Growing up in New Orleans all i heard about chitterlings was that they Stink but if you clean them thoroughly and properly they taste good..No Thanks..Have no problem with pork..but No pig ears Definitely No Chitterlings..Love&Peace luv ya byo eJ ❤😊
It kept us alive. I appreciate what my ancestors did with nothing. I will never stop eating chitterlings. I will never stop communicating and glorifying my people. I am grateful for Big Momma making me eat them chittlin's as a child, I do understand now what you were trying to teach me.
Been going to the Salley Chitlin Strut here in SC since a child in the 60's. The lines are down the street. Fun times and memories. I like them fried with hot sauce and a clothes pin.
Yep grew up on them. My family owned a soul Food restaurant back in the 70s and 80s and me and two of my boys used to clean chittlins’ after school 🤫(if people only knew our young azz’s were the ones cleaning chitlins) they might’ve thought twice before ordering😬We did a good job though and grandma always went over our work afterwards. 👍🏾I used to tear them things up😋! Lookin’ back and knowing what I know now… 🤢! It ain’t bout’ to happen again but no regrets what so ever😜!
It is the pesasent or poor folks food. Also there is hog-head cheese or souce meat, .... you will be suprise to know what in some popular big box can food.
My mother used to say there was something wrong with me and my two brothers. From a young age, my brothers and I rarely ate pork, and I have never (knowingly) eaten chitlins. I would go outside and play to get away from the smell while they were cooking.
Yes I remember Chitterlings being part of African American culture. However, this is a dish I chose not to carry on. Playfully and Thankfully we now have more HEALTHIER and CLEANER choices.
The older generations of my family tried to get us younger people to like them so hard. We were just like, "but it smells like someone went to the bathroom everytime y'all are preparing them" 🤣🤣🤣 One of my older cousins tried to tell me that all I had to do was douse it in hot sauce. At which point I'm just like, "look, if you gotta douse something in *that much* hot sauce to make it edible... No thanks". I have another relative, an uncle, who absolutely *refuses* to eat shrimp because they're "bottom feeders" 🙄🤷🏾♂️, but will tear this ish up with the quickness 🙃 Make it make sense, lol
The reason why is because back in that era that was the only type of food that they was give us was the scraps, which is funny now that we still eat it I’ve never eaten it in my life!!
I absolutely love them. I only get preclean and maws I do not take out the membrane leave that in. Just onions bell pepper and garlic No rice no potatoes
Chitlins are mostly a Southern FBA food, I'm a 40 y/o black man from NYC, been here since 6 and the only people I've met in my lifetime that like/eat that are Southerners or have family in the South. I've had the displeasure of smelling it being cooked and didn't see any appeal in trying to taste it. No judgements though because I am Jamaican born and we have our foods most people don't eat either
I remember Ma standing over the sink thoroughly cleaning them.. Once she stopped cooking, I stopped eating them. I wasn't quite convinced that everyone took as much time and care to clean them.
This video should be entitled, _"Why has the cost of Chitterlings risen so high that we can barely afford them today?"_ The reason is because white folks are eating them now... and they love 'em!
"I don't eat no part of a 🐷. It reminds me of the story when Jesus cast out the demons that were in a possessed man, and they requested that he allow them to go into a herd of swine. My theory is that they knew the pigs were filthy creatures just like them, and this the reason these animals commited suicide because even in their most filthy state the demons were far more filthy than them" 🙏🙏🙏
I am a descendent of African slaves. Therefore, I’m African-American proud of it I just wanna share how resilient we are, and how great we are to have accomplished what we have in America and it’s just beginning. God bless America, protect her against all intruders, foreign domestic and evil.
In My Country Here in 🇵🇭 We Call them Chicharon Bulaklak Was made from pork intestine cleaned, rinsed, boiled & Fried Taste Was So Great Served With Beer & Nuts
I watch a lot of cultures cooking shows and noticed there are other cultures that eat chittlins. They call them a different name and may use diff seasonings.
One of my best friends is Phillipino and she said they are a delicacy in her country. They actually fry them up and use to sale them for $10 dollars for a few pieces and probably for more now
Between Christmas and New Year's, Ill have a plate or two for the sake of tradition. My mother used to make sure they were good and clean for Christmas breakfast. Cleaned, washed and cooked properly, they taste pretty good. After that, I'm done until the next holiday season.
I am a Black man born and raised in the North to parents who were born in the Jim Crow South. My mom cooked them on New Years but I never ate them. They stunk. To this day, I have no idea what they taste like.
Ignorance is so sad. Chitterlings is eaten by 6 billion people in the world, in asia, africa, eastern europe, south america, etc.. it is only a small group of people who do not eat chitterlings, the anglo americans and those who follow them. cheers.
I remember eating chitterlings as a kid. My grandmother would spend hours cleaning them every year for Thanksgiving. Chitterlings was no more when she passed.
My parents were born and raised in the south. South Carolina. I was born and raised in New Jersey. Every Thanksgiving they would clean and cook chitterlings, it would cause the entire house to smell like 💩 One year I was courteous to know how they taste because my dad would eat them as if they were the best thing ever. My father gave me a little piece and I tell I can’t understand for the love of me why would anyone crave this horrible thing 🤮 🤮
As a Native growing up in the South in North Carolina we ate just about every part of the 🐖 pig
Or any animal we had
Generations of Good Soul Cooking and Family time
I sure miss Them days
My mom grandmother not here anymore but i took up their Skills and babee im so Thankful for all!!
R.i.p. to my ancestors who are no longer with us and Thankyou for all you've taught/Given me especially them Soulful recipes!!❤❤❤❤
Amen 👍
@@3RDEYEDNTLIE Waste not, want not. One thing about it, they made whatever they cooked taste good. I can hear the descendants of the slave owner saying, you mean they were eating this good? 😂
@@jacquelinelee9223 Exactly 💯 🤣🤣
Right there with you! Feel free to shoot any of your recipes my way. Especially authentic cornbread dressing. Waiting for it to get a little cooler before I cook a batch of dem chitlins and hook up some coleslaw
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Not all black people eat chitterlings, that is a very big misconception.
💯, I ate them once when I was 5 years old. I’m 40 and never had them again.
Cause i don't not eating a bucket of shit
True. I'll be 46 soon and I have NEVER tasted a single chitterling a day in my life. 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮!!!!!
@@kenyajames4955Exactly 💯. Pig 🐖 poop 💩!!!!!!!
Yea I agree. It’s somewhat a stereotype. But I’m 33 never had any chitlins, not even a drop of chitlin juice but I’ve seen people eat them at family functions , they just didn’t intrigue me to want a taste 😅I just remember for sum reason chitlins always caused some strange excitement , so this video is interesting for sure lol
I love them. Haven’t had any in 3 years due to shortage and now $30 for 10lbs
Me too, they have gotten way too expensive because you need at least 3 buckets and I cook mine with hog maws and the ears
During the pandemic, only sausage, ham and bacon were sold due to the shortage of workers available. They were thrown out in the trash.
Buy precleaned in clear bags. I like Aunt Bessie's or Danish. Cost more but once thawed, takes no time to rinse and wash. Usually have 5 or 6 guys. Don't have that smell. Pour water off as they cook. Add hog maws and cook until done. The buckets contain 8 pounds of water and 2 pounds of torn chitterlings. Hard to clean and cook. I've used these for at least fifteen years and am a happy camper. Don't let price scare you. Uncle Lou's are okay. I had a problem and they refunded my money. Great company service. Never buckets again!
😮😮😮😮 WHAT !!!!!!!!
AND TO THINK DURING THE SLAVERY TIMES THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE MASTER THREW AWAY AND THE BLACK PEOPLE GOT IT TO EAT IT BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THEY HAD. NOW THE PRICE OF HIS HIDING STEAK UNBELIEVABLE !!!!!!!!!
10dollars a bucket at froogels in Gulfport Mississippi ❤
I only ate my Mothers Chitterlings! Because there is a fine art to cleaning, soaking and cooking them!
Absolutely 😂😂😂😂
You got that right.
I did eat my grandmother and aunts also only because I knew they were clean It stopped with my generation my Children would run to keep from eating them😂
Same only ate my mom's
I'm a first generation Sicilian American. I like them with greens, macaroni and cheese, cornbread and hot sauce. Poor folks from all over the world eat the same shit. They just put a different sauce in it.
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You are very right! This is eaten all over the world.
you're exactly right
Never ate them.My parents loved them.
With the operative word being shit. No thanks. I know they are eaten ijn many other places. In fact many countries use all the parts as edible.
I miss my mother cleaning and cooking chitterlings, hot water corn bread and Cole slaw meals!
RIP
Good boy 👦
happy new year.....now my mouth is fixed for chitlins, mac and cheese, dressing and yams!!!
damn it!!!
Me Too Dang It!!!!
@@PastorToni yeah cuz chitlins cost 25 bucks a bucket now....
Damn
@@vashtikelly6837maybe a couple of yrs ago, now they're close to $40
Don't forgot the maws..lol
Love them! Cooking some for new years! Got to know how to properly clean and cook them!
Buy precleaned. Thaw and put in water to wash. Only one piece of small fat in over fifteen years. The bags let you see them. I normally clean and cook for friends. They trust me and know they are clean. I hate those big buckets. Eight pounds of ice and two pounds of guts. Torn and disgusting and stink. Thaw bag in water unopened. Cinch and very little smell. The buckets are washed in bleach and salt and torn by machines.😊
I could just smell the funk while he was talking😂😂😂 nice to learn other cultures eat/ate chittlins
They STANK!!! They smell like my 17 year old son when he poops in the bathroom!!! YUCK!!!
@MsCharizma00 LOL!!!! your comment is so funny!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol 😂😂😂😂
They smell so disgusting!!!!! I could nor bring myself to even taste them. 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮!!!!!!
@jamellfoster6029 Yes and they're so disgusting
I eat Chitlins once/ twice a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas. I love them
Yes, cooking them twice a year is enough. Chitterlings are hard to clean.
Me too and dassit! lol
Yes, only 2 times a year.
Ewwwbthe whole house will stink, I said no thanks 😂😂😂😂 disgusting
Peel 2 small Irish potatoes, cut each potato into 4 quarters, add to pot of chitterlings. Viola! No smell.
I grow up on Chitilins, and love eating them. They're part of my family history and a staple in my family, traditional dishes, for holidays.
Stop eating pork
Y'all breath stank
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They might have started out a poorman's meal but AS far as I'm concerned, its a DELIACY! The 2lbs I cooked up last week were just as expensive as fresh Maine lobster!
No in the USA they started as slave food .
Give me the lobster
To me, it's a delicacy, ALSO! Rare for ME to eat it!
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Same here. I always refer to them as a delicacy.
Always cracks me up when people think that this is something that all Black people eat. I’m from Germany, chitlins are eaten on a daily basis, they are extremely popular there. I don’t eat them, but I won’t knock anybody who does
Nah, but its apart of our blk american culture, like some people bring up watermelon as a insult, when watermelon is a healthy nourishment. Not all of us eat it either. IMO that is something we should eat on the regular
Bro... maybe previous generations. I used to hate when my uncle cooked that smh. Disgusting smh@@Abstract.Noir414
I'm black and I don't. Can't get over the smell..my stomach is weak 🤣
@@Abstract.Noir414 It's a European given to us part of our culture & not originally actually part of our culture This is the often vital overlooked part
@@jordanjay1479 If they smell bad when cooking them, they are not cleaned right.
I love chitterlings and always have. I'm 60 plus years old and have my taste of chitterlings once a year around my birthday.
I reading how everyone dislikes chittlins and how gross they are but let's not forget what a natural casing is when it comes to sausage. So in one way or another you are eating an animal's intestines. It's ok not to like them.
Facts
I was in Japan having dinner and they bought out a plate of raw meat to be grilled at the table. All the white people with me wondered what a curious slither of meat was that was being grilled. I knew right away...they were grilling chitlins in Japan...they were delicious...lol.
@@thinktankindi2664😂❤
I don't eat intestines that's some of the nastiest stuff you can consume, and yes that includes sausage with pork casing, but I don't eat pork at all🤷🏿♂️ so no shyt on my plate, and who ever thought to wrap intestines around some seasoned meat was gone out their mind, p.s you wouldn't eat any that smelled like shyt but when it comes to shytlings you'll make an exception 🤢
False, you're one of those uppity types@@user-Mimi_622
I just want to thank you for this short and rich history of the reason black folks eat chitlins and the origin of chitlins that I never really knew. Besides being a slave food , I did not know that it was a representation of family values, cultural traditions for holidays such as Christmas and good luck for the New Years. This video was most educational for me and thanks again.
I agree with this video was very informative to me, as well
As I've always said, if you call them chitterlings, you definitely don't eat them. That said, my memory of chitlins is playing outdoors for hours (whether I actually wanted to or not) while grown-ups were washing and cooking them. As an adult, I let the entire pig go, innards and outards.
Shitterlings 💩 #disgusting
I never had them they stink up the house while there cooking 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤮
Not true that’s what the folks in Memphis Tennessee calls them.
First time I heard them being called Chitterlings. I grew up with blacks. They always called them Chitlins. We call them Tripas. DELICIOUS! especially in taco form
Many people are letting go of the pig I didn’t grow up eating them I didn’t find out about them until I was grown and left home I no longer eat them
You can’t eat everyone chitlings. My mom clean hers real good and cut them up fine. My mom passed May 2022 and I sure do miss her cooking them
Sorry for your loss and it sounds like your dear mother was an amazing cook ❤
@@CarolShook-yg9nn she was and I miss her so very much. Thank you for your kind words
Yeah, you said it right. I like when people prepare them like you said she did. Bless her soul. I bless my food, so I eat a variety of cuisine😋!
HELLO 👋🏽 SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS
MY CONDOLENCES 🙏🏽❤️
True dat…. My grandmother had away to clean her chittlins and the house didn’t smell. I can count on one hand whose chittlins I ate after I got grown. Now my cousin has passed and my bestie has gout, so I don’t think about tasting no one else. My oldest daughter 50 and
son is 48 like them but my youngest daughter 36 and son 35, be like no way. The older one grew up around my grandmother, by the time the 2 others was born grandma had dementia, I told them that was the life…. They say whatever😂😂😂. Sorry being for being long winded.
Nice history lessen! I like that you taught history without negativity. Your food videos are interesting to watch.
Growing up my Granny made chitlins,hog maws,and potatoes with bell peppers and onions,i loved it and still love them till this day,i wish i had a bowl right now
One time, I went to my Uncles house and upon entering through the door, this overwhelming smell of FECES hit my nose like a brick wall. I thought someone took a dump in the middle of the living room and let it sit there for days. I could not BELIEVE how foul smelling chitlins were!!! It was so bad, it was the first time I ever got angry at my Uncle for ANYTHING, because I felt attacked. Meanwhile, everyone else in the house was just walking around as if they didn't smell what I was smelling. Well, if you've been living under the same roof as someone who's been cooking it for years, you get accustomed to it.
To his credit, he didn't know I was coming, but man did it make me gag the entire short visit I was there.
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Yeah I ain't never encountered the smell. Normally when I was a kid I get there after it's cooked.
Yesssss, that smell is so bad
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🤣🤣🤣 right
chitterlings have went up on there prices I remember when they were cheap now it's like a delicacy
I like Chitlins with Cole slaw, greens, and cornbread!
You like me you know how to eat them❤
Now I’m going to try them like that if I can find them affordable!
Rice and Louisiana Hot Sauce
WYS!!💯 ...with a bottle of franks hot sauce!! 😋
Love the history on this 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
GOTTA LOVE THEM 💜⚘️Over 50yrs. No Health Problems From Chittlins...
Say it again for the people in the back!!!!
God said pork is forbidden.
Did he have anything to say about starving or slavery?
@@denise3885 yep Deuteronomy 28
It's been over 20 years since I smelled them cooking and I still remember the stench smh.
I can’t lie…..you did this video brah!!! Salute and love!!
As a kid that grew up with southern grandparents, I despised that red bucket!!!!!!
Seeing that bucket appear in the kitchen a few times a year meant that the house was about to STANK to high hell.... for weeks!!!!!! 🤮
Many times, my granny would prepare 2 buckets worth of this mess. This was to have enough for other people too. Smh!
You were BLESSED!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "stank to high hell" made me chuckle. Im almost sure u can still smell those memories and feel the essence
@user-rf3zi7yq5e Not very practical for most folks to cook it outside. My granny would clean and cook that stuff during the winter time.
@@Kam876. Nothing I loved more as a kid than the entire house smelling like a giant bowel movement... for weeeks! 🤣🤣🤣 (Definitely, those are memories to cherish!)
i hated that red ass bucket 😂
Im a 60 year old white man from Mississippi i grew up eating them we allways ate them in winter time .Still today i eat themm and they taste great.
This reminded me of my Paw Paw's kitchen back in Nashville, TN. What an unforgettable smell. Thanks for creating this content! All Love❤ ❤
Black is not only loved chitterlings. I worked for white a southern restaurant in Tenn. They had a Thursday night chitterlings, all you can eat. For mostly white morjority. So it's loved by many.
I’m from a predominantly white town in Tennessee and they can’t keep them on the shelves.
Ooh my never like them no taste
RIGHT IT'S MORE A SOUTHERN THING
Is English your second language?
It started with black People who were slaves, slaves cooked for the white slave masters and that’s why many white people down south eat them, because at first chit lings was the scraps the slave masters didn’t want
It's all in the cleaning, preparation and cooking.
Wow, just WOW! I'm 70 years old & this excellent educational video shows me that I still am able to learn something that I never knew our #ADOS (& others' ) culture, but I STILL will not eat pork ESPECIALLY stinky chittlin's'! I must admit, however, that there was a time that I was known to "put my foot" in a pot of chittlin's that ALWAYS sold out when offered on the weekend fundraising platter menu! Shalom all. 🦁❤🖤💚
You 😂 one ☝🏾 of the people doing that Holy Land BS. Our people left that area for a reason Eons ago. America, Turtle Island is our land. Taken over by Europeans invaders. Now so many our black citizens are living a lie off converts in a rock we left Eons ago. From Hebrew to American Indian to N Word to Negro to Black to 🤦🏾♂️ African American. We not Africans. A few ancestors did come from Africa recently. We don’t know our history. It’s coming out slowly however. Get the complete picture.
Im an old-school Southern black woman and I don't eat them.. never have.. And my Mother was known as the greatest soul food cook in my area.. also.made anything taste good.
I like chitlins, but I no longer make them. Instead, I cook hog maws (pork stomach). No off putting odor, and the preparation is considerably less labor intensive.
I freeze them, then slice them into strips with a very sharp knife once they've thawed a bit. Much more difficult to slice when completely thawed. I then toss them in a crock pot with water and chicken stock or bouillon until very tender. Typically, I throw in lots of onion, some minced garlic, red pepper flakes, bay leaf, rosemary, a little soy sauce, ac vinegar and salt and pepper to taste. Occasionally, I'll prepare chicken gizzards and hearts similarly. No need to slice them, though.
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Sounds absolutely delicious 🤤
My mother would always scrape the inside and backside of the pork maws before washing, and cooking them. She scraped them with a sharp knife to remove the slimy flesh from them, it was much easier than cleaning chitterlings. So, if I were to attempt to freeze them before cutting them into strips I will definitely have to scrape them off first.
This was absolutely amazing great information and yes this needs to be printed in a book your video the things you’re saying you broke it down brother you are all right keep up the good work I truly will tell everyone about your channel and this deserves 1 million views or more. Thank you again. Have an amazing day and may God continue to bless your journey I see this channel blowing up for 2024 🙏🏼👍🥰
I loved them as a child growing up in my parents household, then I found out where they really came from, and how unhealthy they are, I haven't eaten any since. That was 22 years ago.
Same here
Thank you.
I did also 😢
As I got older I realized what I was eating as a child it bothered me, because they came the Intestines of pigs and some from other animals. I said to you can't get those things that clean to eat, now 8 wonder about other things that has been manufactured that we eat ya know.
I stopped at 16 years old.
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My father said after WWII in Chicago. You had to go to the packing house and buy chittlins, tripe, pig feet, neck bones, oxtails, tongue, brain, etc for pennies on the pound. Because it wasnt in the store. And once they found out how many blackpeople were eating them. They raised the prices and put it in the supermarket.
Crazy to see things we grew up eating for cheap become so expensive. Especially oxtails. Its mind boggling. We ate oxtails with beans all the time. Now having oxtails is a treat. They are $12.99lb in LA. Smh
My grandma told me stories about eating most of the pig. But chittlins was fed to the dogs, along with other organ meats. With all the feral pigs around, I eat the good parts and feed the rest to my dogs and chickens
@@nadas.5643for real, I saw oxtails in Walmart for 27 bucks a package!! I need 4 packs for my cookouts alone, that ain’t counting what the rest of the meat costs!! Whew , looks like I’m doing pig roasts instead of bbq this year.
When I was a kid, chitterlings were free - you had to go to the slaughterhouse to get them and bring your own buckets.
@@mikekeltner4291you don't no what your missing they good
When I was a kid my cousins who lived directly next door to my grandparents had a chitlins bucket they were cleaning out.Instead of properly cleaning it they instead had a water hose running in it which overflowed and pieces of leftover chitlin meat/juices were streaming from the backyard to the front into the nearby sewer drainage.Mind you this was in the middle of the summer so the stench was powerful and lasted all day.I never had chitlins before but after that I vowed that's one meal I'll never ever attempt to eat and I'm standing on it still 20 yrs later
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😂 last time I ate some Dukey shoot, in the 80 undercooked I got sick, never again ate of the Dukey sack 😂
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My granny would cook them on new year's day. My cousins are them with hot sauce, I wouldnt eat them...house stunk
@@kathleenking47 my grandmother ate them once or twice a year on certain occasions the rest of us didn't eat it though
That's my highlight of thanksgiving over white rice and hot sauce
Thank you i love your presentation on this topic.😊
I like the smell just as much as I like adding onion and hot sauce to mine.
I'm Black, n I don't eat chittilings,n I know a lot of other Black's who don't eat it!!
I grew up eating them, and I still do eat them, especially with some Texas Pete hot sauce. But last year it was so hard to find a decent bucket or packet. Because by the time you clean them, it was nothing left. You were lucky if you had a handful of chitterlings out of a 10 pound bucket. And yes, I do call them chitterlings.
Are you in the Carolina’s..because the only hot sauce we eat is Texas Pete 😂
Frank's hot sauce for me.
@@lcest3253 No I’m a Florida girl
I am so happy I found your channel ♥️
Yes we love them going make some for Sunday dinner. Love watching u and learning
That cook book is amazing, I bought it because of this Chanel. I have always wondered what Chitlins where and now I know I would only try them from a an African American Momma.
Plenty of poor white families survived on them as well. As did poor people the world over for centuries. But I get your point. When I get Chinese carryout I better see Orientals running the kitchen!
Cook book???😮
I can recall going to a Chinese restaurant in Alhambra California, "fried chitlins" were on the menu. Written in the Chinese language of course with a translation underneath.
I am a black female who is almost 70 years old. I love to eat chitterlings with hot sauce. Why? To me they taste good. Put them with some corn bread and black eye peas- you got a really yummy meal.
True that
No lies detected!!!!!
I totally agree… a little Cole slaw too please😊
Surely you gest!
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Never have, never will!
By the way, good video. Love the channel and the hard work you put into your content, One Mic History.
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That cornbread looks good
All Black's don't eat chickens point blank🤣🤣🤣
I’m black, black as ever. In fact I have more African in me than any thing and I don’t even eat meat let alone chitterlings (shit-lings)
I have never had them! My family didn’t cook them and they were not a staple in my community! However other cultures in our neighborhood did eat versions of chitterlings!
Thank U..some of us are health Enthusiasts..🍎🍇🍉🍌🥗
I am one of them
The 85% is easily led in the wrong direction, hard to lead in the right direction...
One other fact about " Chittlin's " Chitterlings, They were free at the butcher shop once upon a time, Many Of My Elders have stated this, I believe once It was realized that a profit could be made Then came a Market for them.
My mama cooked them every Christmas if I recall correctly. Because of how important it was to clean them thoroughly, I haven't eaten any since she passed.
This is off the subject, but the food shown at 4:52 point in the video reminded me of how I recall my grandmama having cooked a meal and me going to her house after school and she might have fried chicken, cooked collards, cornbread and black eyed peas! She was a phenomenal cook and baker!
There's many things in our culture that needs to go forever, we aint slaves anymore. Our people leveled up in so many different ways over the years. Now we need to focus on mental and physical health. Too many of us have heart disease and diabetes, which are mostly avoidable. Too many of us deal with mental health issues.
Love chitterlings wish I can buy already cleaned
Thank you for sharing this Inspiring Message ❤🎉!
I was born and raised in Mississippi. Chitterlings were never a dish served in our home......nor my grandparents. But I do have relatives that eat them. Just something I never wanted.
I never had them, and I never will.
Before my husband (who is half German) became a pescatarian, he ate chittlins lol. I used to watch him strip the membrane away from the intestines, and they have your house smelling like crap 💩 while they're cooking smh lol. I NEVER partook in eating those things. Smile ❤😅
As a free black man, I'll pass on the poop sleeves...
Sure free man🙄
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Chitlins is nothing but skin, there is no meat. And they stink! 🤮👎🏽
@@bf1822 You are the one that sounds crazy bc even the smarter slaves who could go hunt or secure their own food during the plantation era didn't eat no damn pig poop & for painfully obvious reasons
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If you eat bacon you can eat Chitlins. ‘Oscar Myer’ ready made Chitlins all you have to do is heat them up and eat them up.😋 just put in a pot three sticks of butter or margarine, add onions and green peppers, a table spoon of oregano, two pints of water, tea spoon of salt and tea leaves, add two 3 pound containers of Chitlins. Boil a bag of rice. Boil the Chitlins for about a hour and boil the rice in a separate pot for about a hour. Stir, and after one hour let both sit for 5 minutes. Mix the rice with the Chitlins and invite all your family and friends over to eat. Just don’t tell them what it is until they finish eating all they want. 🙄🤔🤷🏼
Bacon smell better than chits
@@Passionatelyfruits depends how you cook it. Add a pinch of honey when cooking the chits and you got a meal😋
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Growing up in New Orleans all i heard about chitterlings was that they Stink but if you clean them thoroughly and properly they taste good..No Thanks..Have no problem with pork..but No pig ears Definitely No Chitterlings..Love&Peace luv ya byo eJ ❤😊
NOT ALL OF US Eat Shitlings!!!!😂
You should!!!!
@@sanjoserock1Nahhh that's slave food 😆 We free now.
Pause... Speak for yourself 😂
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Great are correct title!
It kept us alive. I appreciate what my ancestors did with nothing. I will never stop eating chitterlings. I will never stop communicating and glorifying my people. I am grateful for Big Momma making me eat them chittlin's as a child, I do understand now what you were trying to teach me.
Been going to the Salley Chitlin Strut here in SC since a child in the 60's. The lines are down the street. Fun times and memories. I like them fried with hot sauce and a clothes pin.
Never heard of this. I'll be there this year🎉
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣a clothes pin...took me 3 business days to get that, Good one!
Yep grew up on them. My family owned a soul Food restaurant back in the 70s and 80s and me and two of my boys used to clean chittlins’ after school 🤫(if people only knew our young azz’s were the ones cleaning chitlins) they might’ve thought twice before ordering😬We did a good job though and grandma always went over our work afterwards. 👍🏾I used to tear them things up😋! Lookin’ back and knowing what I know now… 🤢! It ain’t bout’ to happen again but no regrets what so ever😜!
F**k chitlins, chitterlings.
I Felt that deeply!!😂😂
I know Right..
Yuck🤢
EXACTLY 🤮
Right! 🤮🤮🤮
Yeah, well a 5 pound bag is $27 and change here in Denver, so none for me this past december.
It is the pesasent or poor folks food. Also there is hog-head cheese or souce meat, .... you will be suprise to know what in some popular big box can food.
When they found out colored loved them the price went way up
That goes for ox tails too
Here in Baltimore, they want $30 for a pint! I haven’t had any since.
@@brianthetruth6055in Detroit it’s 34 now
She with chicken wings!
*same
My mother used to say there was something wrong with me and my two brothers.
From a young age, my brothers and I rarely ate pork, and I have never (knowingly) eaten chitlins.
I would go outside and play to get away from the smell while they were cooking.
Still have never tried them
When I was younger, I tasted a little out of curiosity but never never ate a plate of chit
Not my dish😣
@@Passionatelyfruits i can see
Neither have I. The smell is an immediate turn off. Plus so many other delicious foods Yah has given us
Yes I remember Chitterlings being part of African American culture. However, this is a dish I chose not to carry on. Playfully and Thankfully we now have more HEALTHIER and CLEANER choices.
Big Ups for sharing your commentary sir!
The older generations of my family tried to get us younger people to like them so hard. We were just like, "but it smells like someone went to the bathroom everytime y'all are preparing them" 🤣🤣🤣 One of my older cousins tried to tell me that all I had to do was douse it in hot sauce. At which point I'm just like, "look, if you gotta douse something in *that much* hot sauce to make it edible... No thanks".
I have another relative, an uncle, who absolutely *refuses* to eat shrimp because they're "bottom feeders" 🙄🤷🏾♂️, but will tear this ish up with the quickness 🙃 Make it make sense, lol
Great point about the similarities between chitlins and shellfish!
The reason why is because back in that era that was the only type of food that they was give us was the scraps, which is funny now that we still eat it I’ve never eaten it in my life!!
Ppl today still eat the scraps🙄
Exactly what I thought. I now know the history and origins of some of the foods we still eat today
I absolutely love them. I only get preclean and maws I do not take out the membrane leave that in. Just onions bell pepper and garlic No rice no potatoes
Chitlins are mostly a Southern FBA food, I'm a 40 y/o black man from NYC, been here since 6 and the only people I've met in my lifetime that like/eat that are Southerners or have family in the South. I've had the displeasure of smelling it being cooked and didn't see any appeal in trying to taste it. No judgements though because I am Jamaican born and we have our foods most people don't eat either
FBA?
27 y/o, Jamaican born and NYC bred since 7.
I share your exact sentiments 💯
I remember Ma standing over the sink thoroughly cleaning them..
Once she stopped cooking, I stopped eating them. I wasn't quite convinced that everyone took as much time and care to clean them.
as a black american for many generations, i’ve never ate them & no 1 in my fam cooks/eats them as well.
You ain't black if you ain't never ate chitlins...
Yay you didn’t have to witness this madness
This video should be entitled, _"Why has the cost of Chitterlings risen so high that we can barely afford them today?"_ The reason is because white folks are eating them now... and they love 'em!
"I don't eat no part of a 🐷. It reminds me of the story when Jesus cast out the demons that were in a possessed man, and they requested that he allow them to go into a herd of swine. My theory is that they knew the pigs were filthy creatures just like them, and this the reason these animals commited suicide because even in their most filthy state the demons were far more filthy than them" 🙏🙏🙏
What part of the dietary Laws do people not understand?
The smell PUTS KNOTS IN MY STOMACH. I WOULD STARVE TO DEATH, if that was the last food on 🌎.😢😢😢😢😢😢
Couldn’t pay me to eat that mess
No, no you would not.
@@jamesmackey2308 🐂****!!!!!!!!! INSTANT GAG REFLEX!!!!!! BY THE SMELL ALONE.
Same here go on a hella fast 😂
Now everyone eat what we eat and prices wwnt sky high especially ox tails and turkey necks
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In My Country Here in 🇵🇭 We Call them Chicharon Bulaklak Was made from pork intestine cleaned, rinsed, boiled & Fried Taste Was So Great Served With Beer & Nuts
I watch a lot of cultures cooking shows and noticed there are other cultures that eat chittlins. They call them a different name and may use diff seasonings.
Very true.
One of my best friends is Phillipino and she said they are a delicacy in her country. They actually fry them up and use to sale them for $10 dollars for a few pieces and probably for more now
We always had them with Hog Maws . My mother always cooked them on New Years Eve. Oh the Memories. My mouth is watering just thinking of them.
The innards are called "offal," not oval. lol
Edit: I think it was the closed caption that read as oval
Between Christmas and New Year's, Ill have a plate or two for the sake of tradition. My mother used to make sure they were good and clean for Christmas breakfast. Cleaned, washed and cooked properly, they taste pretty good. After that, I'm done until the next holiday season.
I am a Black man born and raised in the North to parents who were born in the Jim Crow South. My mom cooked them on New Years but I never ate them. They stunk. To this day, I have no idea what they taste like.
I am a black woman from the Deep South never ate them, but remember mother cooking them on rare occasions.
Chitlins history is not fully told mexican restaurants serve them. I don't know the correct spelling there called trepas and there fried
Ignorance is so sad. Chitterlings is eaten by 6 billion people in the world, in asia, africa, eastern europe, south america, etc.. it is only a small group of people who do not eat chitterlings, the anglo americans and those who follow them. cheers.
Really? You mean if you don't like pig intestines, you must be copying whites? K.
They are a delicacy in Europe. Lots of people worldwide eat chitterlings/ chitlins. They are cleaner now that most are in bags and are expensive!
Cheers
Absolutely no need to eat the intestines.
I remember eating chitterlings as a kid. My grandmother would spend hours cleaning them every year for Thanksgiving. Chitterlings was no more when she passed.
My parents loved chitlins but starting with my siblings and I, no generation since then eats them.
No pork on my plate
I'm Mexican and I grew up eating pickled pigs feet. So delicious.
My parents were born and raised in the south. South Carolina.
I was born and raised in New Jersey.
Every Thanksgiving they would clean and cook chitterlings, it would cause the entire house to smell like 💩
One year I was courteous to know how they taste because my dad would eat them as if they were the best thing ever. My father gave me a little piece and I tell I can’t understand for the love of me why would anyone crave this horrible thing 🤮 🤮
THEY TASTE 👅 GOOD I TELL YOU!!!
It's like trying to eat rubber bands.