While there's tripe ont butcher's counter...

[Wowbagger]

...there's nowt wrong wi' owt! (Stalybridge proverb)

Has anyone tried tripe? I overcame my aversion (partly due to the dead fly that had been in Stalybridge's finest tripe shop window for several months) and ate a mouthful about 25 years ago, but I never ever wished to repeat the experience.

Susan Smillie writes about tripe, and black pudding (which I love) as Scottish dishes, which I did not know.

Do we have any tripe lovers on the forum, and if so, why?

[clarion]

I ate it as a kid, but only under protest.  It's vile.  There are parts of my heritage I can manage without.

[border-rider]

Foul stuff.

We had it when I was growing up  - not a million miles from Stalybridge

edit: just exactly what Clarion said

[clarion]

Disturbed to realise that - probably thirty years after I ate it last - I recall the taste, and the overwhelming smell of the vinegar you had to use in massive quantities to make it remotely edible.

[Butterfly]

I bought it as a treat for my dog once. He wouldn't eat it either.

I've never eaten it - the advantages of a vegetarian mother .

[nicknack]

I tried it, just for the hell of it, about 30 years ago. I haven't repeated the experience. Not actually unpleasant (unlike jellied eels) but really dull.

[Wowbagger]

Mrs. Wow knows some different types of tripe: elder, haslet, honeycomb to name but three...

[Wowbagger]

I tried it, just for the hell of it, about 30 years ago. I haven't repeated the experience. Not actually unpleasant (unlike jellied eels) but really dull.

Now I'm OK with jellied eels. Mind you, the only eels I've ever eaten I've caught myself. Big buggers, as thick as your arm, from Abberton Reservoir.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I had a taste of it when our biology teacher brought some in for us to dissect. I've had worse things in my mouth. I wouldn't eat it again though.

[Wowbagger]

I had a taste of it when our biology teacher brought some in for us to dissect. I've had worse things in my mouth. I wouldn't eat it again though.

Let's not go down there.

[andrewc]

We used to get frozen blocks of it for the dogs. The smell of it being defrosted in a microwave permeated the entire house 

[robbo6]

I used to like it, poached in milk with onions.

[Andrij]

Flaczki, yum! 
 

[jogler]

Tried tripe.....once  ....47 years ago & I don't miss it

[tonycollinet]

When I was a kid, My dad would have tripe every couple of weeks. No-one else in the house ate it. It stank the house out.

[peterh]

Mrs. Wow knows some different types of tripe: elder, haslet, honeycomb to name but three...

I had it as a youngster as well - usually with vinegar.  I don't remember it being awful, just rubbery!  There were several varieties that were white (inc honeycomb) and elder, which was brownish?  I clearly remember a market in my home town that had several stalls just selling tripe.

I always thought that haslet was something like meatloaf/faggot though?

[Tom B]

Bought a can of tripes catalanes (by mistake) when cycle touring in France. It was ok, as I recall, a bit on the chewy side. Wouldn't buy again, but only cos there are so many nicer things.

And I must have had it in stir fries in China and Japan - again, nothing special but nothing horrid either.

[geraldc]

Tripe is still quite big in Chinese food. Normally have it curried with dim sum or with soup noodles.
I must have strange tastes as I didn't even find andouillette that bad.

Hmm

Why do I like tripe. The texture, bit soft, but also a bit crunchy.
Bible leaf tripe and honeycomb tripe are fantastic for trapping sauce, between the leaves for bible leaf, and in the honeycomb etc. Normally we’d have it cooked with blackbean sauce and chilli or curried with turnip.

This thread now has me craving tripe.

[Moloko]

One of the few foods that is exempt from panic buying.

[andrew w]

I had some as a takeaway snack from a stall in Dewsbury market about 40 years ago - with vinegar on it.  It tasted just like rubber with added vinegar.  I eat most things, but I've never been tempted to eat tripe again.

[pcolbeck]

MY Dad used to eat trip with vinegar when I was a kid. He is the only person I know who ate tripe. Must be a West Riding thing (he is from Dewsbury). He used to buy it if we went to the market when visiting relatives in the West Riding. I'll eat most things meat wise but have never been tempted to try tripe.