To wonder how many of you have tried tripe?

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I haven't.

Have you?

Was it as vile as it looks?

FIL was raving about packet and tripe the other day. He buys it once a week and loves it. DH has find memories of eating it as a child. Limerick speciality. Not sure what that says about limerick

I worked in an office when I was 16,the manager sent me every friday for a bag of bag and a bag of tripe. She insisted I try tripe,with vinegar. It slipped off the plate to a grubby carpeted floor. She picked it up,blew on it,and expected me to eat it!

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My parents used to eat it from time to time. EVERYTHING about it was so vile that almost half a century later the mere thought of it makes me retch.

Marco P-White used to have it on his menu. DH & I ate there on a quiet night and he challenged me: eat it & it'll be free (offer NOT extended to DH, who was going through a macho phase). I had fish.

Weird, my folks were just saying today how tripe is not what it used to be. We can only get French tripe now and apparently Scottish tripe tasted much better (aye right).

Walked into my Gran's kitchen once to see a large pot steaming away on the cooker. Lifted the lid and saw what I thought was a large bubbling mass of tripe.

She was boiling my Papa's vests

Used to live in Poland and have flaczki every weekday

Masterchef featured a tripe curry today.

It looked as vile as it probably tasted.

Tried it - hated it

'She was boiling my Papa's vests'

I've just had a flashback to childhood albertofrog. My mum used to boil my dad's vest and pants.

I don't think she had a special saucepan either

Oh God no - one big pot for soups, stews and boiling of undergarments!

My Gran's soup was the best I've ever tasted as well

Why is this in AIBU?

I bought some for the dogs a few weeks ago and even they looked . Before that I didn't even realise they had eyebrows to raise!

To be fair, they eventually ate it, but they are greeeeedy pigs!

tried it once.
Then I understood how it got its name.

I had a dream last night that I took a bite out of a dried tripe stick before giving it to my dog. Bleuuugh.

I feel vindicated now about not trying tripe

Mardybra - it was just a light-hearted bit of trivia. Is that not allowed then?

A dried tripe stick?

Sort of tripe jerky then?

Yabu.

What? To wonder how many MNers have tried tripe?

OK then.

I am northern. My mum and gran would regularly get some honeycomb and eat it with vinegar, black pepper and onions.

I have tried it lots of times and have come to the conclusion it is like eating raw squid - flavourless, chewy and with a smooth / slimy texture. I don't like the texture of it hence why I don't eat it.

DH is from Botswana. He eats the unwashed green / grey stuff. They cook it for hours and hours. Thankfully they cook outside and as they cook on an open fire everything tastes of wood smoke. Cooked it tastes like intestine, which is quite tasty IMO.

It isn't something I would go out of my way to eat, but so long as it was cooked I wouldn't turn it away.

Hell would have to freeze over before I would tripe - or eat any innards or weird bits of meat. I barely eat red meat as it is. Tripe, to me, looks absolutely vile.

I am a veggies, fish and the odd bit of chicken kinda gal.

Odd that people associate tripe with Scotland.
I was born and bred here and have only ever encountered one family who ate it and a couple of people who fed it to their dogs.

I do eat haggis though - as long as it's from a good butcher. Even though haggis has liver in it's better disguised what with the oats and onion. And no-one actually eats the stomach bit that it's wrapped in

We're going to move this to Food now

I tried tripe in a chinese vegetarian monestry, I didn't know what it was and found out much later - I didn't like the taste or texture.

Hah! - I wondered why this had disappeared!!

Tripe in a Chinese vegetarian monastery??? How odd

Yes it was all very odd - I will not tell you about the lack of bathrooms or the things you had to do to go to the loo....