I have to agree there Alan,
I just can't get over the fact that it is a cow's stomach.
Maybe it is just an in-built thing that I've grown up with and of course, the fact that any dish of tripe that I've tried to eat has been, at best, totally bland in taste and always overcooked, which makes it not unlike trying to chew on a rubber inner tube out of a tyre.
BTW Alan,
One thing the french would love if they were down here, is the Mutton-bird.
I've only tried them once and good lord were they awful, an acquired taste as they say.
Even cooking them stinks the house out, you have to boil them to get all the fat and salt out of them, before you roast them.
Never again, eh!. [Linked Image]