Growing up, my grandmother made tongue when she visited, and I remember the giant whole tongue on the kitchen counter. She also made chicken soup with the feet of the chicken (always my favorite part of the soup), chopped liver and stuffed derma, which I believe is some part of an animal stuffed with grain. We also fought over the gizzard of the chicken.

But as I got older I got squeamish about tongue, though I happily still eat chicken liver and the gizzard. I have not, however, ever eaten a chicken heart, let alone a cow heart, nor brains, nor sweetbreads, and though I've had steak and kidney pie, I usually avoided the kidney bits. Funny how I'll eat some organs and not others!