you’d be hard pressed finding cow brain salad these days in the US.
at least i hope so. that’s the way it has been since the second more-draconian lot of USDA restrictions on bovine nerve and spine tissue came into force. mind you, i suppose there is a fair bit of underground “con mia casa” butchery happening anywhere, and it may as well be in LA.
i am even reluctant to suck the marrow from my osso bucco these days!
there are very few brain diseases like CJD, and they pretty much all come from eating prion-infected nerve tissue. scrapie sheep, mad cows, even kuru in PNG headhunters (admittedly a bit rare now!) who knows what kind of spongiform encephalopathy you might catch from a monkey’s brain?
The only time I remember seeing “monkey brains” on a menu was in China about thirteen years ago – and then I was in a vegetarian restaurant that made the dish using cauliflower and peas. In case anyone’s wondering, it didn’t come in a special dish to simulate a skull. The taste wasn’t bad; but I have no idea of knowing whether the item was meant to both look and taste like the non-vegetarian original (the way other mock meat dishes are) or whether the name was based simply on appearance.
[quote=“Tyc00n”][quote=“Doctor Evil”]
I know they used to serve it at the Asiaworld Hotel (when it first opened) back in 1983-84.[/quote]
Geez, you’ve been here a while! So is it true what they say about some of the ‘ladies’ working in the zone? That they’ve been there since US military days?[/quote]
Yep…only now they own the bars. 