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I've a local butcher.

I'll plan to call on Monday. Perhaps he carry's it or maybe will have to order it.

Tongue used to be the most inexpensive of meats.

Well, no matter....

I'm going to buy some, if he/they can supply it.

I won't buy it frozen / fresh or not at all...

Some from what I've read on the internet love it in sandwiches and others prefer it on tacos... we'll see.

I'm also thinking of my making fresh pasta.

Can you tell I'm reading a book about cooking?

When I think of all the deer I've harvested...man, I let some good stuff go to waste...

And I love liver too, just didn't think of it.

I guess I had so much muscle meat such things didn't seem important...

Texsquatch,

Remember, I was 11.

After watching some episodes of "Life Below Zero" and seeing how prized Caribou tongue is got me to thinking I'd have to try some beef tongue, as Caribou is in mighty short supply in my neck of the woods.

As an adult, I have a much different palate.

I've eaten all sorts of things my 11 year old self wouldn't have, like snails, caviar, octopus, rattle snake, alligator, squirrel and on and on...

When I was 11 years old, I was served a magnificent, intensely flavored beef sandwich.

I don't recall what else was on the sandwich, mustard, maybe, perhaps some raw onion and fresh tomato, with lots of cracked black pepper and of course a bit of salt.

I launched into this thing with gusto!

Halfway though eating this delectable sandwich, I inquired as to what cut of beef the sandwich was made from.

All three of the adults I was eating with, stopped eating and stared at each other.

I could immediately see there was some sort of conspiracy at hand and I was not included.

I pressed on with my inquiry and finally one of them confessed that I was eating tongue.

My appetite went from 100 mph to zero...

Tongue? Tongue?

I thought it the most disgusting thing I'd ever eaten and felt like I had been duped into something all 3 adults knew I wouldn't eat if I knew from the start what it was I was eating.

Hey, I was 11. Never a picky eater, but tongue, aaaaaaahhhhhhhh, grosssssss.

Now, many decades later, I wonder if I didn't sell tongue short, so to speak.

So, anyone here eat it?

If so, how do you prepare it?

Thanks!