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