On 2 Jun 2004 15:32:27 -0700, Someone in ba.food.wrote:

>I ate at my favorite taco truck today, and
>noticed after I had ordered that they had
>"buche". I asked what it was, and was told
>stomach. I asked how this was different from
>tripas, but didn't understand the answer.
>
>Googling indicates that buche is pig tail,
>pig snout, pig belly, stomach, close to the
>stomach, and beef cheeks.
>
>Anyone here know what it really is?

I think it's deep-fried pig stomach (but may sometimes be applied
to other deep fried variety meats just to confuse us). Note that
tripe is usually beef stomach.

You may have better luck asking in alt.food.mexican-cooking (like
so).

-sw