Tony, just because you eat pickled pigs ears cold doens't mean that they're raw. Or maybe you just mean thqt they're not cooked after being pickled.
Anyway, the best way to eat pigs' ears is in the form of cuchifritos, deep fried along with tongue, maw, and blood sausage.
(I know what you meant. I just wanted battybilly to know that plenty of people do in fact enjoy pigs' ears. Crunchy gristly bits of fatty goodness.)
Uh........not so sure about pigs' ears. Crunch gristly sounds less than appealing.
But "foreign" food- the internet is great. I go through spurts of this- one week we had South Africa, Argentinian, South Africa, Hungarian, and Chinese. And McDonalds. I think the last night we had some pizza. Some things stick and are repeated again and again, some are a nice try but maybe not again.
I meant they're raw in the sense that they've never felt heat but have just been pickled, Vinny. They most definitely weren't salty or sugary (as per your link) - they were but raw pigs' ears in vinegar - with cartilage like brick.
But I agree that it's good for bb to learn that plenty of people do in fact enjoy pigs' ears. And I think the ones in your linked recipe sound better than the ones I've eaten in Spain!
