Feeling offal? Check out your local taqueria LEO's Eats with Robin GarrMenudo, the fabulously strong flavored and fiery Mexican stew made from pork chitlins ("chitterlings," to the prissy, or, if you insist on a definition in English, pork intestines) is one of the world's most trusted hangover cures.
This may relate to the truth that, no matter how bad you feel, if you can hold down a stenchy ration of
menudo, you can probably hold down just about anything.
Be that as it may, taquerias traditionally offer
menudo as a cheap special on Saturday mornings, ready and waiting as a healthy antidote for the morning after the night before.
If you're really craving Mexican chitlins after reading all this, though, you don't have to wait for Saturday. You can head on over to El Mariachi in the East End or El Molcajete in the South End right now and summon a brace of Mexican-style
tacos de tripas - yep, chitlins tacos - for around 2 bucks a taco.
In fact, if you're feeling just offal, El Molcajete in particular offers an unusual collection of organ-meat tacos. At $2 per, you can go for the aforementioned
tripa; or
lengua (beef tongue),
buche (beef stomach) or even
cesos (brains). No extra charge for three colors of spicy salsitas in hefty squeeze bottles.
So, you're probably asking, how does all that stuff taste? Well. Um. Okay, we had a couple
lengua tacos. If one of you guys wants to try brains or any of those other innards, send me an Email and tell me about it. For us, having sampled one food item that came out of an animal's mouth, we decided to play it safe and finish up with some eggs. Er,
huevos. ...
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/feeli ... l-taqueriaAnd in LEO Weekly:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/feeling-off ... l-taqueriaEl Mariachi9901 Lagrange Road
413-5770
http://elmariachilouisville.comRobin Garr's rating: 85 points
El Molcajete2932 S. 4th St.
638-0300
http://facebook.com/elmolcajetelouisvilleRobin Garr's rating: 85 points