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18 January 2007

What is this??

post by: mudpuppie at: 04:06 | 22 comments

Gah!! That's tripe. Beef or pork stomach most likely. Yuck!

posted by loquacious 18 January | 04:20

I don't know, but it's pretty clearly nature's way of saying don't eat this.

posted by cmonkey 18 January | 04:38

oh dear pupps, has your eczema come out again?

posted by dodgygeezer 18 January | 04:51

Could be honeycomb tripe, but I've also seen coral that looks like that.

posted by deadcowdan 18 January | 06:07

My first guess was going to be coral.

posted by chrismear 18 January | 06:18

I thought, like, sea anemone or something seafoody. *whips mudpuppie with tattered leather restraints from a Victorian insane asylum*

posted by taz 18 January | 06:22

If it's intestinal it ain't human, that all I can say. I vote for coral. (What's the prize, do we get to keep it?)

posted by Wilder 18 January | 07:41

Oh that's where it is, I've been looking for that.

posted by Capn 18 January | 07:49

It's tripe. I recognize it almost instantly since I worked one lonely summer at a grocery store frequented by Mexican shoppers. Also, I assume those are the entry/exit areas on lower right of the picture and in top/center behind the honeycomb shaped area.

Anyway, Is this a game? The answer is right there

posted by mullacc 18 January | 07:52

I thought it would be some kind of sea-beast too, but the same picture turns up as the first result in a google image search for ‘tripe.’ I only ate the stuff once myself, when I inadvertently opted to try the Trippa Alla Romana at an Italian cafeteria.

posted by misteraitch 18 January | 08:00

I am *not* clicking that link.

posted by chewatadistance 18 January | 08:06

Looks like brain coral.

posted by LoriFLA 18 January | 08:26

Ah, I only just got the joke! only took me four hours! Anyway, I didn’t enjoy the Trippa alla Romana: the taste wasn’t so bad, but the texture was very off-puttingly squishy.

posted by misteraitch 18 January | 09:28

It's unsettling is what it is.

Hey mullacc, how did you figure out the flickr page for that image? Several times I've seen a flickr image and wanted to know where it came from, but couldn't figure out how to find it. (A couple times I got lucky entering the image id into google, but there must be a more systematic way.)

posted by danostuporstar 18 January | 09:38

dano:
URL for static pic: http://static.flickr.com/24/48455851_0625446efa_o.jpg

From the .jpg name I took the photo id which comes before the underscore, so "48455851" in this case. Then I place that into the URL I get when looking at another pictures "Available Sizes" link.

Example:
The URL I get when I click on the "All Sizes" link to one of my own pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=325823301&size=o

I remove the "325823301" and substitute the photo ID from the picture I'm looking for.

So:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=48455851&size=o

From there you just click on the "Back to flickr page" link on the top right.

posted by mullacc 18 January | 10:02

Sweet, thanks.

posted by danostuporstar 18 January | 10:07

Hah, I was just coming to ask how to do that. I've wondered for a long time.

posted by omiewise 18 January | 10:29

That just made looking at tripe before breakfast this morning almost worthwhile.

posted by BoringPostcards 18 January | 11:03

Psst...

posted by mudpuppie 18 January | 11:59

who eats this stuff?

posted by youngergirl44 18 January | 12:45

I don't care if it's really tripe. I'm going to go with coral so I don't puke.

Coral coral coral!

posted by deborah 18 January | 13:39

Youngergirl44, not as many people eat this as they used to. Mostly elderly people buy it. We don't even carry it, usually, unless someone asks. Which someone did, today. So we'll be getting some tomorrow. Oh, joy.

posted by redvixen 19 January | 18:25

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