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| Cuchifrito Restaurant (Allentown) - Pennsylvania 2018 |
We had to try it. Around the corner and across the street from our upscale Allentown hotel. Lots of takeout orders. Hali and I had rib stew (pork) which was quite good. Dan had tripe . . . by mistake. He didn't like it.
"Cuchifrito" refers to Puerto Rican cuisine. I don't think we knew that. "Aqui Me Quedo" translates as "Here I'll Stay."
I'm not sure tripe can be made appetizing, though I acknowledge that many of the hotdogs and sausages I've eaten in my life must have been composed of things I could never have eaten in their original form.
ReplyDeleteA black woman I knew once at work let me try a bite from her "chitlins" dish during lunch--the texture was utterly revolting!--sort of like slimy and grisly at the same time, with an odor and flavor that made me think of sewage.
Liver can be good. Also sweetbreads.
People once upon a time ate nearly everything off the carcass.
I guess that the oddest food I've had, at least recently, is shirako.
ReplyDeleteI love tripe in menudo, never had it in any other form.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking us traveling, Mike.
Huh. The Yelp review page is showing cuisine as Cuban / Dominican. "No tripe for me but everything is awesome."
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