So, this last week I have been working in Dialysis. Well on Friday I was assigned to do 5 nutrition assessments which consist of me filling out paper work, talking to patients about their diets and then filling out more paperwork (now that I write it that sounds pretty boring but I actually really enjoyed it). So for part of the assessment I have do a 24 hour recall meaning that I ask the patient about all of the foods they ate in the past 24 hours to see generally what their diet is like.
Here is part of my conversation with one lady I talked to...
me-"Can you tell me what you ate for lunch yesterday?"
her-"Oh yes, I went to this nice diner that has a $5 special everyday where you can get 2 vegetables and a meat."
me-"And what kind of vegetables and meat did you order?"
her-"Well for the vegetables I had cabbage and green beans and for the meat I had neck bones."
me (very confused)-"Neck bones???"
her-"Oh yes, they were very delicious...have you never heard of them?"
After I finished with the assessment I talked to the dietitian I was working with and she said that neck bones are a fairly common dish usually made of beef but sometimes pork. She also told me that people around here also like to eat Ox Tails.
Ox Tails
Neck BonesLater that day I was interviewing another patient and asked him about what kind of snacks he liked to eat and he says, "After lunch I sometimes will eat a Suzy Q." I don't know how I have never heard of these before but they look pretty tasty.
Well after I left dialysis on Friday I thought my weird food experiences would be done...but what was I thinking break the fast was this Sunday. My friend Weijuan is from China and she decided to bring some Ox Tongue for me to try. And yes I did eat it...not very much but I had to give it a try. It didn't taste too bad but there were lots of spices on it, also it wasn't as chewy as you would expect.
