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This blog is a lame, unfunny rip off of Julia and Julia.

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My great grandmother used to cook tripe. I don't remember any gnarly smell.

I've cooked tripe in my place, and it didn't stink up the place nearly as bad as, say, boiling collard greens.

I used to live in Turkey where tripe soup is a standard late night post-drinking meal. Kind of the sausage and cream cheese of that part of the world. The smell was just everywhere on my drunk walk home. Totally foul. In three years I never got used to it.

That sounds pretty terrible.

A good bowl of menudo with chopped raw onions and maybe a calf's foot in it is infintely better than the tripe Erica writes.

nothing wrong with tripe. try some menudo at muy macho erica, is off the hook, with 3 types of tripe.

Yay menudo! Try it the next time you have a hangover. It's even better than Pho for that.

werd!!

a bowl of menudo and 3 shots of gran patrón white tequila y adiós cruda (hangover)

it's easy to get laughs by making fun ofthe "gross things" other people cook and eat, but this "imagined conversation" between ruhlman and thomas keller is so far from funny.

cleaned thoroughly and properly, tripe can be terrific. second seme's muy macho rec.

Tripe is good, especially honeycomb tripe. Along with menudo I had it for dim sum years ago.

why do white people have so much trouble cooking something so delicious and simple?

No, SeMe, I'm not allowed to have any tequila, because of the fires.

I think you're supposed to rinse the tripe inside and out before cooking it. It gets the poo out.

Tripe has never had poo in it or on it. It's stomach, not bowel.

Your gripe with tripe is tripe!

One time, years and years and years ago, I was working at the Renton Holiday Inn (yes, I have slummed in my life)

The "employee lounge" was a horrible dank windowless room with a few mismatched tables and chairs, and the whole thing glazed with nicotine and reeking of cigarette smoke. The kitchen would put out a hot dish every evening for the employees to eat, and one night it was tripe.

That was my introduction to tripe. As well as my tripe swan song. It was just plain nasty. But then again, everything there was nasty. It was a dreadful place.

They had a fire a few years back, and I hoped that they would tear it down, but unfortunately, they only took out the one space that was kind of cool" The rooftop cocktail lounge.

When i was a kid, me and my sister hated the smell so much that when my mom would make tripe for dinner she'd give us money to go and get fast food and go to a movie, so that she and my dad could it in peace.