IN the wonderful world of the internet, chitterlings – once a south Durham delicacy of dubious delights – are known as “pork poo tubes”. Which is just about what they are: made from the pig’s intestine, which is indeed a tube which leads from the pig’s stomach to its rear end. Memories 517 a fortnight ago was chattering about chitterlings, about how they needed to be thoroughly washed out and boiled before being consumed, about how they stank to high heaven.
J Lochners butchers in Darlington covered market in the 1960s - the sort of place you could get chitterlings from