My girls love beef tongue!

[Molly]

Went to the Asian market today. Saw beef tongue. Read beef tongue is high in taurine. Girls went crrazzzy over it! Started making loud sounds and fighting over it! I paid about 16$ for it, is that about average?

Anyone else's little porkers love beef tongue?

[LindaM]

That's a good price.. I've seen beef tongue around for $25ish and higher here, which is why I always do my utmost to make sure I have a good stock of chicken hearts and don't get into the position where I would need to sub beef tongue in place of hearts for a time. Our Asian markets do not sell beef tongue though, but a few of the grocery stores do.

It's very good for them to know the taste of beef tongue and willingly eat it in case you ever need to sub for chicken hearts in an emergency, so it's great that yours love it.

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All of ours love it too! We can only find it at the hispanic and asian market. The hispanic market sells it for $10/lb but will only sell me a whole tongue which with limited freezer space I just can't do. Our closest asian market only sells it as a single pack sushi size tray but it is only $2.50 and will fill 2 meals for our fur babies so we do that as a treat when we can find it. Hoping the bigger asian market we found will have it.

I was surprised that it wasn't a cheap option but my ex (chef) says in other cultures it can be viewed as a premium cut. Live and learn 😉

[LindaM]

@harleyrockabillygirl I always thought the same, but oddly enough the weirder or shall we say, "less commonly used" the part is, the more it tends to be viewed as a "delicacy" and come with a premium tag it would seem.

Though honestly, having seen things on the other side of the world too, it really can vary from place to place, back in my birth country a cut like that was definitely not viewed as premium as it might be here, and definitely did not come with as high a price tag, lol.