Funny!! For some it's all about the preparation and appearance. You make me
even
more eager to try it. You know, once you clean it and even perhaps
soak/marinate
it in something it might be better. Many have said the same thing about
raw meat and hey-hey, look at where we're at(or atleast me). And other
things
for that matter. What if it was neatly cut up in squares, in a pretty
configuration and perhaps with spices on it. Do you think you still would
have had the gag reflex? For instance, the ginko biloba berries. I'll
have to be brave and taste on fully soon, but they smell like
throw-up/rancid butter and most people will avidly attest to this but
from what I've read they taste like almond. The same goes for dried
fish. Have you ever been at a place where they openly dry it in the sun?
I have, it's not a pretty smell at all.
ALot of people HATE that smell, but it sure does taste good. You dig me?

Godbless,
Anwar


Carol wrote:
>
> I haven't eaten tripe myself, but I got some for my dog once.  Only once.
> You see, it was all I could do to keep from throwing up when I opened up the
> butcher paper.  It smelled exactly like a bad infection, like pus.  I ain't
> never eating that! :D  But maybe others like the smell?
>
> Carol
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raw Food Diet Support List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Anwar J Goins
> > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 6:46 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: THe innards
> >
> >
> > I hope this mail goes through but has anyone here had intestinal tripe of
> > a ruminant animal or any other animal. Since our digestive systems are
> > very similar to dogs I know and have read how this is quite an adequate
> > food for humans as well as dogs providing many essential nutrients and
> > the like. This must explain why people like intestines like Chitterlings,
> > even though they smell kind of like shit. But if they taste good, they
> > taste good. I remember as a child when i brought egg sandwiches to school
> > people used to tell me how it stunk! And say 'yuck'. BUt it always
> > smelled okay to me and it tasted good too. If you guys look up green
> > tripe and dogs you should get alot of information on it. Looking at our
> > history as hunters and that of dogs, and taking a lesson from the dogs
> > who like us mostly eat cooked foods and suffer from it, but atleast don't
> > have much psycological problems to over come when it comes to raw animal
> > products, I think this could
> > be a powerful insight into how to better human health and nutrition.
> > Especially considering enzymes and fat and all that good stuff. I'd like
> > to try ruminant stomach and intestines one day and see how they
> > truly taste
> > and how I react. In the wild most animals go for the innards and even we
> > in the past we had a taste for the innards. It was proabably for good
> > reason. I find liver delicious. It is sweet and good(nothing like cooked
> > liver). I find now when eating raw foods that I don't get all of that
> > wild gustatory sensation and strong sedative feeling that I used to, like
> > when I satsified my sugar
> > cravings. It's deeper now and not as superficial, shall I say. When I
> > crave raw beef and I get it the taste doesn't explode in my mouth but it
> > there is a subtle deeper tasting experience. It never explodes in my
> > mouth and it doesn't jump at my nose but it calmly satisfies as I savor
> > it, chew it and swallow. Just an experience, I'm not trying to say that
> > it means anything and it may also be psychological, for all I know.
> > But yeah, has anyone here ever hand ruminant stomach and intestinal tripe?
> >
> > Godbless,
> > Anwar
>