I heard that Europeans and Americans don’t eat pig offal. Is this true?

In supermarkets, pork liver, pork loin, pork bones, and oxtail are the most common, but they are all cleaned and packed in plastic bags. Intestines, pig's feet, pig's blood, pig's ears, and pig's tongue can basically only be bought in Asian stores. We rarely see offal for sale in European and American shopping malls. Do most Europeans and Americans not eat animal offal?

In fact, this is a misunderstanding. France, the number one gourmet country in the West, not only eats pig offal, but also eats it in various ways. Including pork liver pate, pig offal sausages, pig offal cold cut sausages, and a variety of dishes made from pig offal. Therefore, it is completely a misunderstanding to say that Europeans and Americans do not eat pig offal, or that the situation in individual countries can be used to generalize the overall situation in Europe and the United States. The famous high-end cuisine, French foie gras, is made from the liver of duck goose.

Not only France, but other European countries also eat animal offal. The famous dark cuisine of Scotland is made by crushing sheep's internal organs (heart, lungs, liver) and adding onions and other ingredients, and then stuffing them all into a sheep stomach. English kidney pudding – a dessert made from offal. Germans eat blood sausage, Spanish supermarket pig offal, pig head, pig trotters, pig blood, Swedes eat blood pudding, it is very common to eat them as desserts.

Customs and habits vary from place to place! Tibetans basically don’t eat fish, especially fish without scales! But once you get used to it when you come to the mainland, you just eat it! People in rural areas of Shanxi originally did not eat fish. So we cannot generalize.

It’s not that Europeans and Americans don’t eat animal offal, it’s just that very few people eat pig offal. It’s not that they don’t eat it, they only eat a small portion.

Most people in Europe and Asia have experienced periods of starvation, so their attitude towards food is not to waste it if it can be eaten, and they will eat all parts of animals and plants as much as possible.

For example, in the Middle Ages in Europe, supplies were scarce for a long time, and meat was only available to the nobility. In addition, the power of the church was very powerful at that time, and it took place for one-third of the year. Fast, do not eat meat, only eat vegetables, but you can eat fish. As fish became more and more expensive, ordinary people would eat various parts of cows and pigs to satisfy their hunger.