it's time to play guess! that! animal part!

on sunday after work, my mother-in-law and i were going to attend misa en español for some multicultural fun times. however, the church's website ... well i don't want to say that it lied, but it did say that they had spanish mass at 4, but when i showed up at four and asked a vaguely mexican looking kid if there was spanish mass at 4 i found out that there is not, in fact, spanish mass at 4. maybe next week. so instead of spanish mass, the molo (that is shorthand for motherinlaw...i don't know if she's into being identified by name on the interwebs) and i went meat hunting.



this is games farmers market. it looks cute and quaint from the outside, right?

but inside, you find the stuff of nightmares. i'm pretty sure i can never join PITA now just for having set foot in this place!

which brings us to our entertainment for the day. your new favorite blog game show called Guess That Animal Part! are you ready? here we go. (disclaimer: i took these photos on my crappy cellphone from the past so the photo quality is pretty bad!)



did you guess 'pig ears'? then you're a winner!



if you knew that this was a value pack of turkey gizzards, then this round is belong to you!



come on folks, this one's a gimme! as in, 'gimme summa dem tasty pigs' feet!'



in case our more curious contestants wondered what the pigs' feet from last round looked like when split open! there's split pigs' feet!



if you guessed that this is a saran-wrapped package of stomachs, then you're a winner! you're also a winner because you don't have to eat those stomachs!



and finally, if you guessed that my molo is holding up the frozen face of a dead pig with the eyeballs covered up so as to not scare small children and fat vegetarians, then you win again!

here are some other great finds:



chicken paws? i'm pretty sure those aren't sold for culinary purposes. i'm pretty sure they are sold exclusively as a vital part of swamp voodoo rituals.



mmmm calf liver! isn't the liver the part that filters urine? why are we eating this?? you can't tell because of the bad quality, but there on the label under safe handling instructions it says "don't eat this!!!"



i don't even know what chitterlings are, but i'm still pretty afraid of them.



livermush? doesn't the name sort of speak for itself?



and that was the face i was making the entire time we were in the store. people stared.