[Buddha-l] nytimes review of pbs The Buddha

[Jim Peavler]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Richard P. Hayes wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 08:44 -0600, Jim Peavler wrote:
> 
> but eating the lining of a pig's stomach in anyone's presence is
> something to be done.

Actually, tripe is the lining of the first or second stomach of a ruminant, normally a cow. Pigs ain't ruminants, therefore they are unclean unto you.

The first or second stomach are at least one and often two stomachs away from anything like offal (which is awful). Mostly the first stomach (which is what the more civilized cultures use) contains mostly grass that has been chewed and ruminated on until the starch has been converted to sugar. It will be passed to stomachs further down the pipeline for further processing.

Lots of primitive cultures have their women (who often have no teeth) chew grains or grasses (like cane) until the starch has turned to sugar, then they spit it into a vat where it ferments. It is drunk by the males mostly as a delicious intoxicant. 

I think I prefer cow spit. 




Jim
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