Vanisle, my wife and I moved to the country a few years ago. It was our luck that we bought a house next to a beef farmer, with whom and his wfe and kids (all adults) we made fast friends.
So, the first time in our new aquiantance, they invited us to attend the slaughter, dinner and butchering of a well-deserving, fattened-up heifer.
To my greatest consternation the boys - who did the butchering - were ready to throw away the entire head, including the tongue, also, the heart, the liver and the kidneys. They claimed that the only thing worth eating was the meat, like steak, roast, tenderloin, shanks, etc.
Upon my special request they saved the tongue, liver, kidneys and liver for me.
In the next few days I applied my culinary skills and produced a meal with each of the aforementioned organs, following recipes I learned when I was young enhanced by recipes I found in an ethnic cook-book, that our new friends never dreamed of, or tried because of their inbred and ingrown prejudice.
Let me tell you, after they tasted my meals, they told me they would never discard those organs, again.
