PITTSBURGH—Calf's liver lovers, being relatively few in number, sometimes form clubs for companionship.
Members meet regularly for lunch or dinner, write songs about liver and hold holiday gatherings. At the Halloween outing of the Pittsburgh Liver and Onions Club, co-founder Jeanette Matthews, and her son, Ed, dyed some sheets and dressed up as liver and onions. The group has a Christmas carol with a liver theme sung to the tune "Walking in a Winter Wonderland." Sample: "What a dish, c'mon try it. It's delish, toss the diet, the taste we adore and you'll ask for more. Liver and Onions—That's for sure."
The Regina Liver Lovers Luncheon Club in Saskatchewan holds potluck liver picnics in the summer and has a sister club in Comox, British Columbia. Loosely organized Ditto's Liver and Onion Club of Stanwood, Iowa, was started by a loyal patron of Ditto's Family Restaurant who compiled a list of area liver lovers and invited them to a first-Monday-of-the-month $5.75 liver special. A group of eight women, who worked together at an elementary school in St. Paul, started a liver-lover club 35 years ago. The oldest member is now 83. "We formed it because no one else in our families liked it," says Mary McGrath, 78.
Liver lover data are scarce. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association doesn't track liver consumption, but it does track liver exports, of which there are plenty.
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