Tripe

Tripe is a type of edible offal made from the stomach of various domestic animals. Beef tripe is typically made from the first three of a cattle's four stomachs, the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum tripe is also seen, but with much less frequency. Sheep and pork tripe are also produced.

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Fresh tripe, which includes bits of the stomach's last content, smells very unappetizing for humans. Nevertheless, is a favourite of many dogs and other carnivores. Tripe has to be watered and meticulously cleaned for human consumption.

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Tripe is eaten in many parts of the world. Famous tripe recipes include:

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• Menudo -- a Mexican soup
• Patsás (Greek: ??????) -- a Greek hangover fix, similar to the Mexican menudo
• Cau Cau -- a Peruvian type stew using tripe, potatoes and spices.
• Tripe and onions -- (Britain)
• Tripe and Drisheen -- in Cork, Ireland
• Tripes ? la mode de Caen -- tripe Caen style (France)
• Philadelphia Pepper Pot Soup -- tripe soup with peppercorns (United States)
• Gras-double Lyonnais -- tripe Lyon style (France)
• Phở -- Vietnamese soup
• Trippa alla Genovese -- tripe Genoa style (Italy)
• andouille -- a sausage containing tripe (France)
• flaczki -- tripe Polish style
• Callos a la madrile?a -- a thick tripe soup, Madrid style (Spain)
• Kare-kare -- a Filipino peanut soup.
• Pacal or Pacalp?rk?lt -- a spicy Hungarian meal made of tripe, similar to p?rk?lt

Tripe is also a slang term synonymous with rubbish, in the sense of something of little value, or nonsense.

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Offal: Offal is the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of organs, but includes most internal organs other than muscles or bones. In many parts of the United States these portions of the animal tend to be considered "waste parts", although there ...

Stomach: In anatomy, the stomach (in ancient Greek στόμαχος) is an organ in the alimentary canal used to digest food. Generally, the stomach's primary function is not the absorption of nutrients from digested food; this task is usually performed by the intestine....

Cattle: Cattle (called simply cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals (pulling carts, plows and the like). In some count...

Tripe related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Tripe Butchers of the Calle de La Madone Venice 1900