Linda wrote in message
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We use regular tripe in menudo, that and honeycomb tripe,
which I prefer.

I took all three daughter-units to lunch with me the other day to a little
dive in Sunnyjail. As we waited in line, one of the line-cooks walked over
to us. I recognized him from my previous Real Life®, over a Life-Time-Ago,
so we stepped out of line and started jawing. During this excellent
conversation, Spawn reminded me that she was "Starving!" [I _never_ feed my
three human garbage disposals.] The cook excused himself and got three bowls
of soup. Daughter-unit Alpha immediately set to, slurping and noshing. Spawn
and Daughter-unit Beta were a little more careful; our last outing to a
Mexican restaurant netted them a super-spiced burrito and that experience
seemed foremost on their minds. Beta spooned through the soup and lifted out
a dangling chunk of something that she immediately doubted aloud was
digestible. It was tripe, and once I convinced her that it was indeed
edible, she and Spawn did nothing the rest of the day except talk about how
delicious and different [the texture] that soup was.

Now all I have to do is convince SWMBO that I should be allowed to make
tripe a regular menu item for us. Talk about a hard sell...

The Ranger