Just when I though I had seen it all, Meijers’ (regional grocery chain) has started carrying honeycomb tripe. It is frozen but it is tripe none the less.

For those of you who have never heard of honeycomb tripe, it is the second stomach of a cow.

The stomach is first cleaned and then processed, ready for consumption. It can be cooked in a soup, stuffed in sausage (did you really want to know that?), stuffed with veggies and baked, broiled or fried.

But more to the point, how many people in the Lowell area are going to buy tripe? Or for that matter, how many people in the Lowell know what tripe is? Granted at a $1.49 a pound, it is cheaper than hamburg but I can’t see many people in Lowell buying it.

Maybe I could find a recipe that calls for tripe stuffed with artichokes.