Tripe? Oh, I Couldn't.

I think that if the corner luncheonette has tripe on its menu, you probably shouldn't order it. Not because you don't like the taste of tripe because it really does taste like intestines even though you've never eaten an intestine before but it's what you would imagine an intestine to taste like and although you fully realize our ancestors didn't let anything go to waste and we're a wasteful society and you're hoping to make up for those twenty Poland Spring bottles right now by not wasting an intestine and go to sleep with a good conscience tonight you reason that you're simply not willing to have organ aftertaste in exchange for a good night's sleep. Not becaue it's weird that they have it on the menu as an add on with either linguine, spaghetti or ziti. Not even because you're a vegetarian. But more because they probably don't go through a lot of it so it's not fresh. And the only thing worse than fresh tripe is rotten tripe. Over ziti.