On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:57:47 -0500, jmcquown > wrote:

>
> I have never seen menudo on any menu. Come to think of it, I've never seen
> soup of any kind offered at any of the Mexican restaurants around here.
> Hmmm.

Here, menudo is only offered in the more authentic Mexican
restaurants. You won't find it at Tex-Mex places or Mexican-American places
on the menu. It's like the difference between a PF Changs and a
hole-in-the-wall Chinese place with almost all-Asian customers. Both might be
called Chinese, but their offerings might be so different, it's like two
separate cuisines. To get the stuff that hasn't been altered for American
tastes, you have to know where to go.

There's a small place not far from Wright-Patt AFB which offers pozole and
menudo on weekends, their menu is quite small. The salsa is HOT, there's a
big TV tuned into the Spanish language channel all the time, and they make
incredible beef tongue tacos. I've had the menudo, thought it was good but
I'm not wild about tripe. It just doesn't have much flavor on its own,
although I did enjoy the honeycomb tripe more than the kind that's usually
served in dim sum restaurants.

Ariane
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