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  Ok I know this is a bit weird but last year OH orderded something from a french menu that sounded very nice, you can guess what she got. Anyway after gagging a few times she ended up sharing mine [ ham egg & chips ] to avoid this happening again can anyone tell us the french for such a meal, as we cannot remember.

  By the way bulls bits are not in our translation book ?????  

the French sanitise them (slightly) by calling them rognons blancs (“white kidneys”

see

http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2005/11/food-for-cowboys-and-popes.html

  Thanks to everyone especially Oxter, interesting reading but can't remenber the aphrodisiac thing working ha ha. From memory the rognons blancs may have been there on the menu but with a sauce, so sounding a bit special. However not a complete waste of money she still goes green today when the subject is mentioned.[ hope she never reads this ] otherwise it might my bits on the menu,

  Steve

Quote: Originally posted by brian.t on 29/5/2011

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Couldn't have been as bad as 'Andouillette' sausage!

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We love bbq'd andouillettes!  Especially with a good, rough old red wine (if thats not a contradiction).

Lots of smoke and flames on the barbie when cooking though.

Rognon blancs, aphrodisiacs?  Load of b*ll*cks! 

(sorry, gone midnight and bottle of Cote De Blaye consumed)

"Coucougnettes" are another such alleged delicacy - the ones we experienced were from Cockerels and according to our French friends are eaten quite regularly, especially in rural areas by older people, sliced and fried (the coucougnettes, that is, not the older people!).