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The pancreas as we've never seen it before.

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I thought it looked a bit like the tripe that you see in some butchers. :lol: :lol:
 
Years ago we used to buy 'lites' (cow's intestines etc) for the cat from the butchers. I'm sure we may have had some cow's pancreas in that as it looks sort of familiar.
 
catherinecherub said:
I thought it looked a bit like the tripe that you see in some butchers. :lol: :lol:
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My thoughts entirely!!!! :shock:
 
I think pancreas comes under the general umbrella of sweetbreads in the UK , tripe is cows stomachs and lights used to be the lungs

ris or sometimes riz de veau/agneau is very popular here but probably non pc or easily available in the UK .
It's the thymus and pancreas of a calf/lamb
I quite like it, though I hate tripe.
Contains no carbs, 20% protein 4% fat, v and apparently 100g has as much vit C as an orange and 50g will cover your daily needs for vit B12 (I'm sure someone said they were low in that recently!)
 
No, no - to me it looks very much like my first attempt of Arran kniting :lol:
I have improved since then, so has my diabetes, hopefully my pancreas too
 
Great link Catherine :thumbup:

I have seen one before at Dr Gunther von Hagens 'Body Works Exhibition' at the London O2 back in 2009, it was an exhibition of bodies and body parts dissected by the controversial anatomist, do you remember the guy who used to do the live autopsy's on TV wearing a Fedora hat :D

It had plasticized exhibits of every body part stripped bare plus all the cardiovascular system down to the individual veins, truly incredible and I would urge everyone to go and see it if it ever returns to this country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7imTotlzsk
 
That's fascinating :shock:

Nothing like the diagrams I was shown at uni! It looks extremely delicate, makes me feel a bit more protective of it!
 
WOW! :shock: That is so fascinating. What a great clip. :clap:
 
That's really quite beautiful. Like a piece of coral. I find these things fascinating. After my youngest son was born I asked to see the placenta - just out of sheer curiosity and because he was going to be our last baby I knew I'd never have another chance. If you're squeamish then you'd have been revolted, but this huge thing had been my unborn baby's life support machine and it was amazing. The midwife was really informative about it too, and fairly gobsmacked that I was interested. All these things you carry around in your body but you'll never get to see them.

Julia
 
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