Mmmmmmmm

[pasithea]

I've been too busy to write the past few days so this is catch-up from a few days ago. I went out to dinner with Jeff and Dasha atta Pho place. Their menu had a lot of tripe. I realized that the thought of eating tripe made me really queasy... But I'd never eaten tripe before. I hate having baseless phobias and when I encounter them, I tend to try to do something about them. So... I ordered soup with tripe...

Now... I mistakenly assumed they'd cut it up in some way as to make it unrecognizible, not just leave shredded chunks of intestine floating in my soup. Alas, I was mistaken. It looked like tripe *quease* but I picked it up and put it in my mouth and ate it. It is tough and has a
texture like a thin slightly brittle vinyl. I don't know what it tasted like really. The texture and psychological aspects of it drown that out. I guess it wasn't terrible flavorwise or I'd have noticed but ick.

So. I ate it all. The whole bowl. I still think it's gross. My policy with these things is to try a food at least twice, so I guess some day I'll brave it again but... not for a while. Ick.

Comments

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

I don't see what Paka likes about it either.
If you have to make yourself eat it twice, at least try it a different way? Menudo is still tripe. Go to a good mexican place for Sunday breakfast sometime and get the Menudo. It should come with a pho like spread of chopped onions, crumbled dry oregano, lemon wedges etc. for you to add to your soup.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes certainly. That's the way my try-it-twice thing works. Once it could just be a bad experience. Not prepared right or something. Two times at two different places.

Hmmm...

[sslaxx.livejournal.com]

...not sure I'd try it myself. Still, maybe it was just the way it was prepared and used.

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

I once tried baby octopus....

Now I'm not squicked by eating octopus, but damn if it wasn't the toughest thing I've ever eaten in my entire life! It was virtually unchewable :(

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Shouldnt be like that -- was how it was prepared.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I never thought it had much of a taste, I've only had it with tomato sauce.

Eh.