I went to a Korean restaurant tonight, which was a bit of a disaster because I don’t know much about Korean food. The menu seemed to consist entirely of large bowls of spicy stuff (I got topkip, I think, rice cakes fried with onion and chilli in a chilli sauce, topped with chilli) or grilled meats. The grilled meat menu was extensive, but I didn’t want to go there. It was also a bit like looking at a butcher’s slab – there were Japanese descriptions of all the meats, and Japanese really doesn’t mess around with euphemisms when it comes to eating bits of a cow. They had “number three stomach” and “liver” and “number one stomach” and “small intestine,” so you knew exactly which bit of the inside of the cow you were getting. And there on the board, slap bang in front of me, was shikyu, 子宮, no mistaking it – uterus. Apparently it has a “light” flavour, and goes well with anything. And, unsurprisingly, it’s cheap – half the price of the cheapest bit of actual cow meat.
Could you eat uterus? Not in the “I was trapped in the amazon so I had to eat raw spiders” sense of “could.” I mean, casually, knowing what it is, on a Thursday evening in the city, when the menu also presents you with perfectly reasonable alternative meat-based options for a couple of dollars more. I vote “no” on the uterus question. How about you?
Compromise and Conceit 
March 15, 2012 at 11:34 pm
No way! Actually I could not eat casually any of the inner parts you mentioned before, but the uterus, seems a little too much for me… maybe even a sacrilege.
March 16, 2012 at 7:11 am
I’m pretty sure that the ability to say “I’ll spend a couple of bucks more” is a large part of the reason I support capitalism.
So no.
Not unless I was hammered and someone dared me.
March 16, 2012 at 9:06 am
No. Don’t no why – I’ve eaten lots of other inside bits at traditional Argentine barbies, made and enjoyed sausages using intestine and love brain fritters. But I know people who would tuck in without hesitation – some with the dual justification that it tastes good, and if you are going to kill things you should eat whatever you can.
October 29, 2013 at 6:07 am
Uterus isn’t strictly necessary to human functioning (like appendix), so really I would be happier to eat it than an important bit like the flesh or organs. Give me a couple of months, you can eat mine.