snoots

Well i grew up in St Louuis on the east side and moved to kansas city 10 years ago. They brag about KC BBQ but it is not nearly as good as St louis. Example snoots. I spent the afternoon calling around and most had not heard of snoots let alone cook them. Then try to buy them at the grocery store HA I found the only one in town that carries them but they also carry pigs feet, ears, tripe, etc. So I will try to make myself happy and cook my own but man do I miss St Louis!!

Ladylost,
First of all, Welcome to the Roadfood website! We hope you will find lots of good information and nice folks when you visit.
As a result of Alton Browns Roadtrip-TV show some attention has been focused on the St Louis (area's) special dishes. Brown had a Brain Sandwich in Evansville Indiana on the program, but I can recall my mother talking about using Calf Brains in eggs for breakfast during her youth in the 1920's in St Louis. She served those to us now and then in my younger years in SoCal in the 40's and 50's. We have seen them in the Evansville/Owensboro KY area now and then at summer festivals.
Snoots are really a St Louis specialty. I have not seen them outside of a tight ring around the city in any 'prepared food store' (read Tavern)!
KC has it's own specialties and we are lucky enough to visit and enjoy BBQ at a number of places there. You live in a Roadfood Paradise !

Again Welcome to Roadfood. I hope you enjoy your stay.

AL-The Mayor

may i add a warm roadfood welcome, ladylost.
the only snoots i've seen are the ones carried in my
pet store

An uncle of mine used to own a cafe in the KC stockyards. He used to have St. Louis style snoot sandwiches, and one pound hamburgers. He's gone now...the cafe's gone...I think the stockyards are gone.

Could you guys expand on this snoots thing? I take it you are talking about pig's noses. How are they cooked? What do they taste like? Are they eaten in their original physical state, or are they chopped or shredded? What else is on the sandwich?

Feeling a bit 'nosy',
Pwingsx

Pwinger-

Yes, We are talking about Pig Noses.

I have eaten Snoots in two variations of the basic "Nose in Sauce" theme. The basic recipe has Snoots simmered forever in a red BBQ-like sauce...Much like the famed "Burnt Ends" in Kansas City. The variations come in how the meat is cut or chopped. I have had them finely chopped (like North Carolina BBQ) still in the sauce on white bread. The other way I enjoyed them was in Large chunks (like the Burnt End size) They cook in the sauce until they are very tender (just a bit chewie). I have seen, but not eaten cross-section cut pieces in sauce on bread. That was a bit too graphic for me!

At Jungle Jims Market in Cincinnati The typical Snoot in the meat case is about 3 inches long and looks like a "Pig Nose". They are usually packaged in the clear meat wrapper...5 or 6 to a package.

I have seen pigstails,pig feets,etc.in the grocery stores here
but not pig snouts.I guess they are tasty,but i don't know if i would eat them.

now if they could only find a use for the squeal...

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Originally posted by xannie_01

now if they could only find a use for the squeal...

Oh they have!............as soon as people find out what is really in that gravy that is served to put on rice at these barbeque places, you can hear the "squeals" all over the place.

Boy, this just gets better and better. What IS in the gravy???

Pwingsx
I think Greymo is referring to the 'gravy' (sauce) the meat is simmered in. The sandwiches I have seen and eaten were white bread with a large spoonful of the meat and sauce over the bread. even with additional bread there was no way it would hold together to be 'hand-held'.

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen

Pwingsx
I think Greymo is referring to the 'gravy' (sauce) the meat is simmered in. The sandwiches I have seen and eaten were white bread with a large spoonful of the meat and sauce over the bread. even with additional bread there was no way it would hold together to be 'hand-held'.

Actually, I was in error when I called it "gravy". It is referred to as hash and looks like a "gravy". The Stern's decribe ( in their first Roadfood book) what a pit master told them it was when they had it for the first time and asked what was in it. "Pig", he said. "What else?" they asked. "More pig", he said. At that point, I think they decided it was best not to know another thing!

Thanks for the welcome!! Brain sandwiches i remember those not that I would eat them. Yep my parents would go over to O'Fallon and get the sandwiches in a tavern ( don't hear that name anymore ) I would sit outside as The thought made me ill. A woman i once worked with taught me how to cook snoots. Ya trin them down the middle and get rid of the nose than make cuts along the inside of so it does not curl. Then boild the fat out takes about an hour. put on the grill cook over low heat and do not sauce or season until it is done they burn easily then put ont he sauce and slap it on white bread. No it does not hold together. Yummy none the less!

OMG! PUKE-O-RAMA

Also. What is this "white bread" thingie??? I haven't touched that stuff since many years past...

we hot-dog lovers have eaten pork snouts in one form or another...........

Adjudicator
Whenever I have ordered a BBQ "Sandwich" at many of the BBQ stands around the USA (including Hayes Smokehouse and Arthur Bryants) They slap a piece (or two) of the equivilant to WONDER BREAD on the plate and stick-dump-ladle a bunch of meat and sauce onto the bread Then one or more pieces of bread are 'set' on top to make it a sandwich. That is as common as Bagels are with Lox!!! You may not eat it, but it is there.

Snoots get the same treatment at the few places where they are served.

aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh yes! fresh, (and it must be very fresh) WONDER BREAD and Head Cheese sandwich......... solo...nothing else, no lettuce, no mayo, no mustard ...just plain old WONDER BREAD and Head Cheese .........my favorite way of eating pork snouts

Well, if you chopped or shredded it, sauced it, or hid it in a hot dog, I would probably eat it. I'm not sure I'd want to know about it beforehand.

Like lobster. I love it, but I don't want it served to me in it's original physical form. Too much like a big bug. {{{{{{shudder}}}}}

Got a snoot sandwich in STL several years ago. It came with potato salad IN the sandwich with the snoot 'n' sauce. Messy and chewy and pretty good.

Pwing
I have never seen it served this way...but I can get a picture in my mind of an open Hotdog Roll with a whole 4" snoot laying in the roll with some peppery BBQ sauce dripping out the nostrils! Maybe a little Brown Mustard and Kraut in there too??? Now that sounds like a real "Red-Neck Sandwich" ! Kinda like a Lobster-roll for the working class

Just kidding though. I have seen the whole snoots at Jungle Jims(uncooked), but the only way I have had them on a sandwich was as I described earlier.

JIM- That sounds like the way I got some BBQ in N C and in Memphis, where they stick the Cole Slaw right on the sandwich, not on the side... (personal preference I guess).

Mr Mayor,
thanks for killing my appetite for the day

Sorry, Xannie !![B)]

Here is Poverty Pete at Jungle Jim's (Cincinnati market) last year. He is checking out the Whole-Head selections (Blonde-Brunette-Redhead??, but the Snoot is the obvious center of attention in this package.


BTW in the lower right of the same section as the Pork Parts, they also sell Sheep Heads. I was told that many Middle Eastern cultures make use of the Sheep-Head in a number of dishes.

Dearfolk,
There is an obscure R. Crumb cartoon that has a blues singer, drunk out of his mind, offering a visiting British blues fan food: "We has SNOOTS!" he bellows. An entire cast-iron pot of hot snouts sits boiling away behind him.
Of course, the proper Englishman is repulsed; he'd far rather have a livermush sandwich in Salisbury, North Carolina or a livermush pizza in Boiling Springs, North Carolina.
What I'd give for a snoot sandwich right about now....
Almost Hungrily Already, Ort. Carlton in Sylva, North Carolina.

Mr Mayor,
thanks for that picture.

as of today i'm officially a vegetarian!

but it's such a fetching smile...the pig's, not mine!

PP, you are a smiling rascal but I do not believe you belong in that picture.

Only Al could think of such a picture structure. He framed it very good.

Paul E. smith
Knoxville, TN

Al can do a lot of things with smoke and mirrors.....and that looks like some pretty tasty snoots to me!

Who let Ort. out of Athens???

Lisa, Zeeman paid me a large sum to not post "The Southern California Hills photo". But you keep teasing me about it and UP it goes !!hehehe How was the Prosciutto and Bacon??

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen

Lisa, Zeeman paid me a large sum to not post "The Southern California Hills photo". But you keep teasing me about it and UP it goes !!hehehe How was the Prosciutto and Bacon??

Al, I didn't ship her the prosciutto. She got bacon and the hambit pack we snacked on Friday night. btw, I've seen the hills photo. Go on and post it. Lisa will be flooded with fan mail.

The Photo is 2 and a half years old, I am afraid I would be accused of 'false advertising!