At least as of August 15, 2018, the Wikipedia page on the fictitious (and derogatory) dish "monkey brains" does not include at least two of its other appearances in pop culture: 1) in the great Christopher Guest movie Waiting for Guffman, the characters discuss it over dinner in the scene in the restaurant (the one involving, among other things, penis-reduction surgery); and 2) in Tama Janowitz's novel/story collection Slaves of New York, one of the characters describes the preparation of the dish in horrifying detail, and says it was the second most disgusting thing he's ever eaten (we never learn what the first most disgusting might have been).
To repeat, this dish does not actually exist. Nobody eats it. It's just a terrible idea that found its way into Western pop culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_brains
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