> I have eaten brain (of bavarian cow, i think) and was > not very fond of it. Yesterday I met someone claiming > that to have eaten well-tasting br > ain soup in the childhood. My own personal experience: When I was a child, I was not known to refuse any food outright. Once, I was about 10 years old then, we were served what I thought was our typical egg omelette breakfast. But on that particular morning, as I took the first bite into my serving, my taste buds just simply went berserk. I reflexively retched and spit out the whole mouthful -- it tasted so unspeakably repulsive. "What's with THIS omelette???" I asked. Our aunt who supervised the kitchen was rightfully indignant at me. It was a cow's-brain omelette, she said. Brains of butchered animals are prime pickings at the market, she added. I refused anyway. After that, I never attempted to taste anything that had mammal or fowl brain in it. As I grew up I learned to eat most any edible piece of fauna -- chicken feet, pig's ears, fish gut, cow's tongue, ant larvae, forest lizards, cloud rats. Anything except THAT (and cannibalism of course). (Note: It's often a pleasant surprise for Filipino kids when omelette is served, because our mothers are very innovative in what to mix in with the beaten eggs. One day it might be broiled eggplant, another day it could be mushrooms, or shrimps, or finely-chopped fish, or crab meat, or bitter gourd, or even thinly-sliced Western-style sausages occasionally. But after that "brainy" encounter, omelette breakfast surprises were no longer so pleasant for me. :-( Jun V.