I like menudo - great flavor - except for the tripe - I figure if Senora Cabello (in her 80s) doesn't have to eat the tripe, then I don't have to either. . .B-) As for some people who can't find hominy? For the soup - I'd use chick peas/garbanzo or some other white bean before I'd use some of the ideas that have been posted Sharen Rund Bloechl Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Sunnyvale Data Center sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com <mailto:sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com> Phone: 408-756-5432 [or] Fax: 408-756-0912 srund@svl.ems.lmco.com <mailto:srund@svl.ems.lmco.com> LMnet: 8-326-5432 Pager: 408-539-5146 web: http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi <http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi> [or] Operator Assist: 1-800-725-5079, pin 408-539-5146 ---------- From: Rich McCormack [SMTP:macknet@cts.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 5:37 AM To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com Cc: Bloechl, Sharen Rund Subject: Re: [CH] Menudo+Chocolate+Question.+Fish To my suggestion that "Menudo is better known as a hangover remedy" than New Years good luck dish... Bloechl, Sharen Rund wrote: > I wouldn't try to tell that to some friends of mine who happen to be > Mexican and who happen to eats loads of this on New Year's Day (not just the > one's suffering from a hangover either.....B-) I've lived in SoCal all my life. Various relatives 'n inlaws from both mine and my wife's family have married Mexicans and we all have associated with Mexicans from both sides of the US/Mexican border on a fairly regular basis...I've yet to hear any mention of menudo being a New Years good luck dish. But if it be so, it's OK with me, I'm one of those rare gringos that actually likes menudo. -- Rich McCormack (Poway, CA) macknet@cts.com Who is Rich McCormack? Find out at... http://members.cts.com/crash/m/macknet/