>This must be one of those 'delicacies' which came about in an attempt to use up all of the edible portions of meat during poverty or starvation times? I can think of no other reason to eat that! Yuck!!!! :o) (There are other foods I consider to fall into this category: anything in the 'green' family: collard greens, mustard greens, et al, white corn, pigs feet, etc) :o)

It's delicious - all those tendons and cartilage make this a gooood soup. So thick that it becomes gelatinous. That's actually what you have in the salami - they don't use real gelatin anymore for just every recipe, this is cheaper and holds better, and actually has some nutritional value.

Not that we do this regularly - once a year, and then it lasts a week, usually as cold dinner.

The definition of yuck is in the eyes of beholder. To me, any sausage or ham or anything of the kind that's sticky, oozy and stuffed with water falls into that category. The group name we use for it is "dry meat products" - and if it isn't dry, it's not what it's supposed to be. And the mere idea of using sugar or honey in any of that would be ridiculed on the spot, if mentioned anywhere in the Balkans.