How many remember eating them?

I've never had pickled pigs feet, but would try them. I knew kids, when I was one, who would use that as an exclamation of disbelief.

What do they taste like? What sort of brine are they in?

I like smoked hocks and beans.

Keith

Taste like pickled meat, it's been at least 40 years since I've eaten one.
50 Years since I would see them in the bars!
I just checked, they're still around, so I'm going to get some.

I love pork hocks and bean, also pork hocks in a New England cabbage dinner.
They're getting hard to find also.

Don't know if they are the same as 50 years ago, but here's some.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Big-John...msclkid=7b9025727e161a71cc254cd19c2ea563

Winners in Osgood, Ohio is a really good butcher. They frequently win best sausage, in national competitions, in a few different categories. They sell smoked pork hocks at both their butcher shop and their grocery store in Osgood. For a while we were having two hogs a year butchered there. They always did a good job and their prices are reasonable. I should clear out a freezer of mostly fruit and buy another hog.

Are the pig feet in like just a standard vinegar, water and sugar pickle?

Keith

To be honest, I really don't remember the pickle taste , just the pickled meat was good.
Ihave no idea if the store bought ones will be the same, but someone mass produced them back then, in gallon jars.

Our VFW still has them behind the bar

I've got a gallon jar of them that I found in a small town gas station in Nebraska. They're not as good as the ones you could get years ago but still pretty good. A couple places here sell fresh pigs feet and I like them cooked in a crock pot with saurekraut.

My grandfather loved pickled pig's feet, knuckles and herring.

My Mom really liked them. Was not my cup of tea

Around here, I can buy the Hormel brand of pickled pig's feet at Walmart and some grocery stores too. I first tried them when I was a kid because my dad said they were good. He was right too.

My mom mailed some to me at basic training. The guys from Louisiana thought I was gross.




This is our retail option around here.

I still love them, but my wife thinks I'm crazy to eat them.
When I was a kid, my grandma used to boil them and Sundays after church, I would eat them with my grandpa. We would sprinkle vinegar on them and eat them with my grandma's homemade bread.
You haven't lived till you've had pickled pigs feet!

Do you have to refrigerate the Hormel brand after opening?

Make sure you try the ones out of china.

That's what it says on the label, yes.

These say shelf stable...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Big-John...25150?classType=REGULAR&from=/search

Never tried either.

My dad used to eat them. I thought they were gross 30 yrs ago and still do. I bought a jar a year or so ago and tried them. Vinegar, gross gelatin and rubbery skin and meat that only tasted like vinegar. No appeal at all.

Lots of better parts on a pig to eat.

And I like weird stuff. I'll try anything twice.

How are you supposed to eat them ? Just fish one out and gnaw on it ?

When I had them I could hardly walk !!!!!!!!