If you know me you are well aware that I'm pretty adventurous when it comes to food. I'll try just about anything at least once and there aren't a lot of foods that I can say that I hate. Sure, there are some foods that aren't my favorite, but I wouldn't really have any trouble eating them. Today I decided to try something that I'd never had before, menudo. Menudo is basically a Mexican tripe and hominy soup. Now I am all about ethnic soups and I usually even get tripe in my all time favorite soup, pho. Anyway, I was at the store and saw the can of menudo and thought that today was the day to try it. I brought it home, opened it up, dumped the contents on the can (they came out kind of in one piece. Not unlike canned cranberry sauce complete with the ridges from said can.) into a pan and cranked up the heat. When it was heated through I gave it a taste. Not too bad, but the can mentioned adding some fresh lime juice so I did that. Time to eat. I don't know if I didn't like it or if it was just not what I was in the mood for today, but I didn't have a whole lot. The flavor of the broth was ok, but it wasn't quite what I was wanting. I'm a fan of the crunchiness that the hominy brings to the party, but the tripe just wasn't doing it for me today. The tripe I'm used to in my pho is kind of rubbery and almost crunchy. My menudo tripe was squishy with a slide off the spoon feel that kind of reminded me of a wet napkin. I bet you're hungry now! I'm not going to write this soup off just yet though. This was just the canned version and it was the less expensive of the two brands that I found. Maybe I just got what I paid for. So I'm sure there will be more menudo in my future. Maybe I could even try cooking it!
What's the strangest thing you've eaten?
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