# Is seafood extender ever made from tripe?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 1, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-seafood-extender-ever-made-from-tripe/315144 "2005-08-01T15:18:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-seafood-extender-ever-made-from-tripe/315144/21 "2019-05-10T21:49:25Z")

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My understanding of tripe (beef or pork) is that it is pretty rubbery before cooking. I’m sure when you mash it up enough that doesn’t matter,but considering how many Asian carp, buffalo, catfish, and other junk fish are around, why bother with a mammal? [Heck, there’s even a bounty on Asian carp](https://www.outdoorlife.com/stop-asian-carp-earn-1-million), so fish processors might even make money using them.

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-seafood-extender-ever-made-from-tripe/315144/22 "2019-05-10T22:16:17Z")

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> [@scr4](#):
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> Of course it’s mostly “fish paste” (ground up fish). Which of the additives do you find objectionable?

In my case it’s the potato starch and the added sugar. If I wanted to eat potatoes I’d eat potatoes. Mostly fish paste; indeed. A punchbowl with a turd bobbing around in it is mostly punch, but it puts me off my thirst. Hell, if it were made of only fish paste and tripe I’d be all over it. I like tripe.

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