A word of warning

As the title suggests, this entry is a word of warning to anyone travelling to Mexico. If you are ever offered a dish called 'Menudo,' decline. My mum just came home with some and gave it to me. They eat a lot of soup here, so when she plonked this weird looking soup in front of me I was like 'Yeah OK. More soup. Try everything once I guess.' Then I like... looked through the soup to see what was in it. And couldn't figure out if it was meat or vegetable or what it was. So like. I had some. And it didn't taste too bad. And then she told me what it was. And I so wish she didn't. I might have been able to eat it without wanting to throw up if she didn't.

Turns out I was eating the stomach of a rabbit in some sort of chili oil mixed with the 'juices' from the rabbits body.

So yeah. Unless this sounds appealing to any of you, turn down Menudo if you ever get the change to turn it down. I think that is the first bad Mexican food experience I've had. Maybe if she had have given it to me and said 'hey, you're going to eat rabbits stomach and liver and other organs now' I would have handled it better. Cause then I would have known what I was eating. But yeah. She didn't.

Still on the Ruta Maya trip (5 days!) around Mexico I'm probably going to eat crickets. In tacos. But like. The difference with that is that I know I will be eating crickets when I eat them and it will be my choice to eat them when/if I do.

So yeah. Moral of the story: If anyone says to you '¿quieres probar menudo?' reply 'no gracias'