To wonder how many of you have tried tripe?

[Salmotrutta]

I haven't.

Have you?

Was it as vile as it looks?

We used to eat it regularly years ago - my mam cooked it in milk with onions and "stuff" - not sure just what she did as I was only small, but I remember eating it and it being warm and filling. It was a "winter warmer" like stew or shepher's pie was and we had it about once a week or so. I don't think she does it now, there's only her and dad at home now and they don't tend to eat big dinners anymore.

Nothing will ever persuade me to try it.

Yes I've had it in Chinese food, I think it was a hotpot type thing. It was absolutely fine, just chewy and I don't remember it having much taste or smell. But cooked in milk?!

I love it

My parents cook it in a creamy white sauce with cannellini beans and serve with crusty bread. Not sure of the exact details of the recipe but I love the taste and texture, although can appreciate that it's not to everyone's taste.

It just looks spongy and wrong.

I have never tried tripe but my aunt had me prepare it as a buffet food at my uncles funeral (along with rollmops and other disgusting slimy shite)

And there was a boy at my primary school (mid 70's) whose mother would give him a packed lunch which consisted of nothing more than a tupperware bowl of tripe with vinegar, a bread roll and a tupperware cup of tripe juice - he always sat alone poor lad! I wish I was joking too but that is gospel :(

I had white tripe soup in France - it was okay

Tripe juice

... poor little lad!

And now I find there are different colours of tripe!

Green, brown and white. How lovely.

its not the best

I can cope with pigs trotters (when I was little at grandma's house) but tripe is just yuk! Even grandma's dog turned his nose up.

I'm still reeling from that poor little boy with his tripe juice frankly ...

There must be another colour tripe too! Cows have 4 stomachs don't they, maybe they all have different colours - perhaps the other one is mauve or puce

I have only ever seen white tripe and I really wish I hadn't

Nearly as bad as coming home from the pub one night and had forgotten my key, the front room light was on so I peered through to see who was still up only to spy my mother chewing on something which appeared to be wrapped around her head!! She was only eating a fucking pigs tail

I'm curious but not brave enough...and def no to pigs trotters - I heave when my granddad has cow heel (bluergh)

DH ordered it once in a Michelin Starred restaurant
even one of the capital's best chefs couldn't stop it from looking like a dishcloth.
DH swore it was delicious, but then he likes bakes beans cold from the tin

OMG A pig's tail.

Did you think you'd stepped into parallel universe Pat ?

Yes I have had tripe a couple of times. cut into strips with chilis in a Chinese restaurant - very rubbery, a bit like overcooked squid. Also had it in some sort of tomatoey-chickpea-ey soup in a gastropub, where it was tasty but a bit slimy. I'm not a massive fan but it's not the worst thing I've eaten.

That would be either pigs' ears in Barcelona or some freaky tendon shit called 'nervi' in Northern Italy.

Salmotrutta what makes it even worse for that boy is that he wasn't the most attractive of children and he tried so hard to make friends but his looks and the smell of vinegar pervading him just sent other kids running for the hills

He did grow up to be a normal bloke though, married with a family - he either gave up the tripe or his wife has no sense of smell

My in-laws in Algeria cooked a tripe stew after they had killed a sheep. I don't eat meat anyway but the smell was nauseating. I couldn't stay in the room so I said to DH I would quite like to eat my lunch outside (which they often do so not an unusual request) funnily enough DH (who is Algerian) decided to join me and share my lunch

Salmo I really couldn't believe what I was seeing when I witnessed the pigtail thing - got even funnier when I eventually got in the house and my mother had clearly got up still half pissed for her midnight pork snack and had put her lovely 1980s top on inside out and the power shoulder pads made her appear to have wings which actually flapped as she flounced back up the stairs - fucking bizarre!!!

DS at 13mo was wolfing down the flaki at Christmas in Poland.

DP (Polish) loves it, his entire family think I am weird because I think it's vile

Bearcrumble agree with you on the "nervi"

I made Oxtail at the weekend and was pulling out all the rubbery bits, Italian MIL was horrified, and proceeded to chew on them,

yes i have, it was vile my granddad said i would love it

but not the worse thing i have eaten that has to be lung that really is horrible so is brain, have also eaten dog (was not aware), had a beef like taste

One of my grandfathers is a Scot. Tripe seems to go with the territory. I think it's awful but perhaps if it were cooked another way, it might be tolerable.