Jim DeLillo wrote: Luke, Ya didn't TRY it?!? Luke Speer replied: We did N.B.(quoted text) We Drank lots today to get rid of the Taste.. <major snippage> We Decided to Burn the remaining portion in the fireplace: ------------------------------------------------------------- It must at one stage have been covered in sauce then hung out to semi dry then canned.. As a card carrying Chile-Head I too have eaten some strange things in the name of research for the list, (unpaid), but this stuff IMHO just does not make the first cut .. FWIW I quite like Belcan (compressed shrimp paste in block form) this you can smell half a mile away.. I have also been known to use tripe when making Menudo.. ..... Luke in Oz