How do chitterlings compare with tripe? I’m quite familiar with all sorts of preparations of tripe, and I quite like the stuff (if it’s done well. Tripe is one of those things that when prepared incorrectly is absolutely vomit-inducing.) Menudo is awesome. I’ve always wanted to try chitterlings, but I’m not about to buy a 5 lb bucket of the stuff, and I don’t really see them on the menus here. Even in soul food restaurants in predominantly black neighborhoods, I haven’t been able to find them. Maybe it’s one of them off-the-menu items…I dunno.
It’s an incubated duck’s egg that has a two and a half week old fetus in it that is then boiled and eaten.
Both have strong smells when being prepared, but the tastes/smells are different strong smells. If you’re OK with tripe, you should do fine with chitlins.
:eek: What kind of place do you live in!?
Cooking chitlins takes foreever - well, actually, preparing them to be cooked takes forever. They have to be washed and rinsed many, many, many times. And the smell - as was pointed out, they smell just like you’d expect. I don’t eat them.
I do eat scrapple though. That’s everything leftover from the pig after all the good parts (including the chitlins) have been removed. Fried scrapple…mmmmmm.
The proper name for “snoodge” is chyme; in the small intestine, what you’ve basically got is food that’s been pulverized, hydrolyzed, and otherwise enzymed into a relatively smooth paste. The bacteria that give excrement its typical smell (and, I presume, taste) are not yet present (at least not in large quantities). It also hasn’t had its water extracted by the large intestine, so it’s not nearly as solid as feces.
I’ve never tasted chyme, but I imagine it’s sorta like baby food. Tangy baby food.
You know, I’m currently trying to lose about ten pounds or so. I think I’ll bookmark this thread and whenever I get tempted, come back and read all of this.
Excellent dieting aid.
Have not ate them but I have smelled them cooking. Some of my relatives used to make them and they do not smell appetizing at all.