anyone care for some morcilla?

arthur brode says on Nov 7, 2006, 01:50:

i havent tried colombian morcilla yet but i can tell you that the morcilla from the mountains of puerto rico is excellent and not as thick.

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goin_south says on Nov 7, 2006, 05:15:

I believe I also will pass. It's churning...

"Tengo mucha compasión para el loro."

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costajunkie says on Nov 7, 2006, 05:41:

I love it! Not the stuff pre-packaged and sold in the meat section of your Carrefour or Carulla grocery stores (yes, too dry and tasteless), but the home-made variety. This and chicharrones! yum-yum!

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Diez Y Siete says on Nov 7, 2006, 07:58:

my personal favorite was christmas bunuelos, i couldnt get enough of them when i was there, ill be missing them this year *tear*

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cali373 says on Nov 7, 2006, 10:28:

I liked morcilla in Colombia but that is home made, the ones you buy in restaurants have too much rice. In the US colombian morcilla is not good at all. That picture is grossing me out!

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. says on Nov 7, 2006, 10:43:

I like morcilla I like eating morcilla, but the photo makes look the morcilla disgusting!

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Desideria (Moderator) says on Nov 7, 2006, 10:44:

ohmygood I don't think I'll ever eat morcilla again after looking at that picture. It looks like clogged arteries...

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Monpirri says on Nov 7, 2006, 11:21:

It's a terrible photograph The photo depicts the fear of the unknown.
I used to like morcillas when I was small, but as soon as I learned that morcillas are made with the animal’s blood, now I think they are gross! On the other hand, I love fritangas from Bogotá, but we need a photographer here who enjoys las fritangas.

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Robert Jorge says on Nov 7, 2006, 11:32:

Picture is gross. I ate morcillas while I was in Colombia. I didn't really like it, or dislike it. It seemed like it just didn't have much taste, but had a slight metal-like, dry, burnt taste. My fiancee' loves morcilla, but I enjoy a lot of other foods much more. The morcillas I ate at different times had rice stuffed in it, and was from small cafe's / restaraunts - not store bought. Let's talk about chorizos. That's what I miss. Leaving a club at 4am and going to those little sidewalk vendors and buying a chorizo on a stick with an arepa and lime.

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kat1 (Moderator) says on Nov 7, 2006, 11:43:

I love morcillas but unfortunately my waistline doesn't :(

now the yellow thing on the picture, not the potatoes but the other stuff is that Rila?

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Tinto (Moderator) says on Nov 7, 2006, 12:57:

Except for the yellow in the potatoes I think a picture of an in-process autopsy would look about the same. And be as appetizing.

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lpdiver says on Nov 7, 2006, 13:17:

I am a Cajun... from south Louisiana and would never touch "blood sausage". I had some at Publito Paisa in Medellin and also at a roadside churrasco on the way to Zipa...to see the salt cathedrals.

Great stuff! Can't wait to go back and get some more.

t

"cook some rice!"

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kat1 (Moderator) says on Nov 7, 2006, 13:57:

come on tinto don't tell me you have not try that gourmet.

i have to invite you one day, Morcilla are delicious!! with a glass of champagne yummy :)

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adrimm says on Nov 7, 2006, 14:49:

Yummmmmy, one of my faves in Colombia (but a horrible picture).

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goin_south says on Nov 7, 2006, 18:03:

I dont even want to know what that is....yuck. If a CoonAss won't touch it, then... it's even way past 'road-kill'.
I'm not the CoonAss; I just landed here. Sorta found this place, the same way I discovered Colombia.

What? You didn't know that I 'Discovered Colombia'?

"Tengo mucha compasión para el loro."

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Robert Jorge says on Nov 7, 2006, 20:58:

Metal flavor Yes Rubito, I figured the metal flavor was from the blood. It is very slight, but present. Kinda like taking a bite of a hamburger that is super well done, and then immediately sucking on a penny. I must have eaten substandard morcillas. They were dry and bland. A piece of food has to be damn good for me to want to eat it when it is made out of blood. Sopa de mondongo is an example. Gross ingredients, but that is some good shit. I want to try pig's head and rice next time I am down in Colombia. I heard that is awesome ... though my fiancee' get's physically sick at the sight of it, hence, I never tried it.

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goin_south says on Nov 9, 2006, 15:22:

do us a favor; if anything deserves to be deleted ... it's that photo.

"Tengo mucha compasión para el loro."

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love2colombia says on Nov 10, 2006, 08:37:

Better image Morcillas

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Colombiche says on Nov 10, 2006, 08:52:

That photo reminds me of that Christmas in Colombia when my two old aunts from Cali killed a chicken in the backyard of my house. We kept it in the room behind the kitchen for 2 weeks. I was starting to grow fond of him,I loved hearing him crow at 6 am everyday. I used to go back there and feed him corn early in the morning. I really hoped he would live, but he was too dumb to let him escape.


Come sancocho day, they brought him out and tried breaking the neck, but the poor thing just kept clucking, so they opened the beak, started running the water and drowned it in the patio sink.

They asked me to help with plucking the feathers but I passed. They also asked me to hold the chicken's arse while they washed off the rila by pumping a big syringe full of water into his bowels. That is precisely what that picture reminds me of - poor gallo Claudio getting postmortem enema from an old lady with a mustache while a petrified 10 year old girl assisted in groping his cadaver.


My aunts fought over who was going to get to eat the chicken's head and suck out the eyeballs. I couldn't even bring myself to taste the broth.

After that, I was practically a vegetarian for years.

Oh, the fond memories of growing up in Colombia......

No me den trago extranjero, que es caro y no sabe a bueno.... (Rafael Godoy)

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elmodefoque says on Nov 10, 2006, 09:07:

When I first saw the very top pic I thought it was a woman’s private part and to the far right a freshly burnt rat. Sorry, my head is in the toilet all day long.
colombiche, that's a cute story.
by the way, I absolutley love morcillas

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Colombiche says on Nov 10, 2006, 09:22:

Ooops, it's lunch time I'm off to Kentucky Fried Chicken, I'm going to get some popcorn chicken with gravy.

No me den trago extranjero, que es caro y no sabe a bueno.... (Rafael Godoy)

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webmanco says on Nov 10, 2006, 09:38:

Relleno Poor animals.

...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ...

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Lisa Zee says on Nov 10, 2006, 15:37:

Morcilla If you think that the first photo is "morcilla" YOU NEVER EATE IT!
That is some kind of squid or digusting sea crap!.

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goin_south says on Nov 11, 2006, 06:16:

and, the second photo is not so much better. and, I think Lisa Z is right. Whatever morcilla is, I am decidedly against it now, by association (with that first photo!)

"Tengo mucha compasión para el loro."

Where do we go from here?

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goin_south says on Nov 11, 2006, 10:54:

I look forward to El Pueblito; but, please keep the morcillo in the walkin freezer.
Look; I know what that stuff is; the Cajuns call it 'boudin'. Same thing, I think. Not for Yankees. Not for this Yankee. Take me to Papadeaux's! I'll eat anything on their menu except for the raw oysters.

"Tengo mucha compasión para el loro."

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lpdiver says on Nov 14, 2006, 19:28:

boudin is not necessarily morcillo. bouudin is basically rice dressing stuffed into a sausage casing. There is blood boudin but it cannot be bought commercially. This coonass would never touch blood boudin for 45 years.

I drank a few cervesas and didn't ask questions. I love the stuff. It wasn't until a month after returning to the swamps of south Louisiana that my daughter informed me what I'd eaten. Can't wait to return.

I'll pass on the chitlins though.

t

"cook some rice!"

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goin_south says on Nov 14, 2006, 22:44:

Whatever it is... Most of us don't care to try it, so keep posting the 'other stuff' Arthur. Because most of us want some more of that. su modelas.

"Tengo mucha compasión para el loro."

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quindioman says on Dec 6, 2006, 04:40:

Stop this rellena bashing I was bought up calling this thing rellena instead of morcilla, and I like to think of it as a local delicacy.
Sure I know what it's made of but guess what I had on my plate whilst reading this thread? A good piece of Denny's black pudding from the local irish butchers, so I thought I'd write an impromptu post actually saying I LOVE RELLENA.
In response to Colombiche's post about killing chickens.....I know very well what it's like to actually take an animal kill it, strip it, pluck it and stuff it before putting the thing in your mouth and it has to be the most umpleasant experience (apart from the one time I had piles-but that's another story) ever......the smell is BAD I cannot relate that particular smell to anything else but sufficiently bad to put me off sancocho freshly prepared in fincas for ever.
Now the pig was a different matter.....i felt sorry for the poor thing but once cooked the meat was delicious.

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quindioman says on Dec 6, 2006, 04:41:

it's true that the photo does not do any justice to this fine delicacy.

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