Belly Bellissimo!

[christychristy]

So D and I were talking about tripe this weekend. He said it was a south american thing and I said it was british. As it turns out everyone loves tripe. Many folks in many places scarf it down. Three cheers for offal

Comments

[cgoldfish]

i think tripe looks like a meat hairnet.

[christychristy]

Well, I guess that's pretty much what it is. Though hopefully not hairy.

[restartsmyheart]

italians are big on tripe and koreans and cambodians and vietnamese too!

[saucypunk]

i heart american tourists.

also, small native animals made entirely of innards.

[donutgirl]

I kinda like tripe, although I don't care for haggis. But the Bolivian restaurant down the street makes a great Aji de Panza (peppered belly).

[junquegrrl]

'course you know almost all cheese has cow stomach lining in it, right? Mmmm.... rennet....

[christychristy]

Yes, I do. A fact which didn't even bother me during my veggie days... because cheese is soooo yummy!

[junquegrrl]

yeah... we have rennet-less cheese in the house, but when we're out, we both kinda "pretend" that the cheese we're eating is veg. because cheese is, indeed, SO freaking good. and there are precious few rennetless cheeses out there, lemmetellya.