Last night in Vilnius, Lithuania, I had a very interesting meal. I won’t build suspense because it’s in the title, I ate pig trotters, aka the feet, of the pig, well just one foot actually. I had the option between that and pig’s ears. There were other things on the menu of course, but I had to try one of those two.

It was…. OK at best. It would have been nice if they’d been fried a bit, so that they had some colour and weren’t just grey, boiled meat. It also would have been nice if they’d been seasoned in any way, I don’t think there was even salt involved. The thing about feet is that there are a lot of bones, and not much meat, so it was a difficult task to separate the edible parts from the bones and cartilage. The ‘edible parts’ were not so much meat as fat and skin, and maybe cartilage is edible if it’s boiled enough. Needless to say, they textures involved were chewy, gelatinous, and rubbery. I ate about 3/4s of it.

You can see in the picture that it is on a bed of peas with some bits of fried bacon. The bacon was good. The peas were a bit dry and I couldn’t bring myself to finish them either. All in all, I am unlikely to eat pig trotters again, but I’m glad I tried.

Until next time, dear readers!