On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:06:21 GMT, "Peter Aitken"
> wrote:

>"Bubbabob" > wrote in message
.3.30...
>>
>> Ick. There's no tomatoes in real menudo, just like there aren't any in
>real
>> chile. Raw onions, red chile flakes and oregano on top are pretty much
>> mandatory, though.
>>
>> Everyone washes the tripe very well out this way. The only bad tripe I've
>> ever had was chitlins in Alabama.
>
>Chitlins are not tripe. Tripe is stomach, chitlins are intestines.

Could I add that trip is _ruminant_ stomach? And chitlins are pig
intestines.

My favorite way to eat chitlins is as andouillettes, mostly found in
Paris brasseries, although I first tasted them in 1972 in Alexandria,
VA.



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