Wrong answer on Only Connect

[gollob]

On tonight's only connect wall the group was Lights(should have been Lites) Tripe ,Brawn and Chitterlings. The answer given was they are all offal. Except Tripe is part of the stomach and not offal and Brawn is made from pig's head meat and sometimes with ox cheek. A right awful answer.

[MarkRae]

Dom, their team captain, is a good mate of mine and I've quizzed both with and against Holly and Gareth many times.

They are all happy enough with the outcome.. :-)

[gollob]

The original english answer for Offal is the organs of the animal, i.e the heart, kidney, lungs(or lites), kidney, liver, etc. The Americans call offal sweetmeats which they embrace nearly every cut of the animal like heads,tails,feet, tongue which is pure rubbish . There is no such thing in the body called brawn so therefore it cannot be classified as offal. Brawn in manufactured in a food factory or kitchen and you can use any part of a pig to produce it as you can for sausages or porkburgers.. It is generally brined seasoned then cooked then put into individual pots or in a deli. sliced on a cooked meat machine. It is also known as a pork cheese in some parts of the country. It contains no offal whatsoever.

[boxtops]

You forgot sweetbreads, gollob

[LazyGun]

@methyl - I am sure that Vicky will be immeasurably reassured that, despite your dismissal of her intellect ("i find his daughter superficial"), and her skills as a poker player, despite winning the London EPT, you still find a her "a very sexy lady".

She has written columns I disagree with vehemently, and I am no fan of her brother, but anyone who, writing about the recent best-selling phenomenon, "50 shades of Gray", can comment that the author "puts the B in anal" is worthy of some respect ;)

[Kiki-frog]

////the author "puts the B in anal"////

lol, lazygun, I missed that article, so thanks for that. That's one thing I really like about Victoria, she's certainly inherited her old man's wit!

I love Only Connect - it really makes you use your brain, not just dredge up general knowledge facts

[capnbonzo]

Dictionary definition of "lights"
   

plural noun
the lungs, especially of sheep, pigs, etc

[gollob]

Thet are always refered to as lites in the butchery trade and never lights which is a corruption of the word

[emmie]

Victoria is a very funny lady, is dating David Mitchell, bet that is a laugh a minute. x

[emmie]

wiki

Lights are the lungs of game or livestock as used in cooking and butchery. Although technically offal, lights are rarely used in English-speaking culinary traditions, with the exception of the Scottish national dish haggis.

[zebo]

em10, I seem to remember that they announces their engagement earlier this year, she on Twitter, he in the Times! Can you imagine their offspring, two brains like that procreating.

[zebo]

of course, they "announced" not "announces", sorry.

[mikey4444]

I like a quote of Dad's ( Alans Coren )

"I can't think what the point is of Sainsburys, unless its to keep the riff-raff out of Waitrose"