No. Way. In. Hell. That's not food, that's nightmare torture come to life! I'd rather eat my own surgically removed (and lovingly seasoned and prepared) finger. Mmmmmmm! Yes, I know where it has been.
Oh, it looks totally gross. Like a Giger painting. But apparently the taste and texture are delicate and wonderful.
I'm told the bones are so soft, it's more like al dente pasta. See how floppy it is once you get past the placenta?
That woman was completely stupid to eat the dog food. It doesn't have to be tainted to be harmful to humans. Dog food is made of rendered offal (the throwaway parts during butchering of livestock - disinfected digestive system, lungs, fat, meat scraps) that's basically been tossed in a barrel and sitting at room temperature for days, then is picked up by a rendering plant in their huge un-refrigerated dump trucks and carried to the plant in the summer heat, and processed into bites of kibble. This is perfectly safe for dogs (with the exception of some brands like Ol Roy which have been known to cause infections and kidney stones and eath) because their digestive systems are designed to eat the meat and viscera of an animal that's just been killed and whose carcass has been sitting outside while they slowly pick at it. Human digestive systems do not have the proper facilities to render rotting tissue along with some of the rendering chemicals left in the dog food during production, harmless. The natural decomposition and those chemicals make it toxic in our bodies. Keep feeding dog food (especially some of the vet-recommended brands - Science Diet, Prescription Diet, Purina) to your dogs, but don't even think about eating it. I've seen and eaten lots of nasty things working at the UGA Meat Lab, but I sure as hell wouldn't put a piece of this crap in my mouth. I say the lady had it coming for being such a freakin' moron.
You Canadians and Mexicans, and your tripe... I don't get it. Anyway, tripe is perfectly harmless, although disgusting. We don't get it where I work, but plants specifically meant to harvest the stuff get stomachs shipped frozen immediately after slaughter. The contents are removed, the tripe is seperated from the two other layers, and it's washed incredibly well then sprayed with a lactic acid bath to kill any bacteria. There's no harm in tripe... it's just really horrifying. Offal isn't necessarily a negative word. It doesn't mean "the stuff that can't be eaten". It's just everything that's removed from a carcass prior to butchering of the muscle meat - including organs, the head, bone powder, nervous tissue, etc. There's "edible offal" and "inedible offal". We generally save the heart (for people who like it ground to feed to their dogs), the liver (for people who are insane enough to actually think that liver tastes good), the tongue (for the Asians in the area... they like it for some reason), and the tail (for the Asians too - we've nicknamed it "fookin' oxtail").
I'm not sure part you're asking about, but dry and wet are the same ingredients and process - just different fat and moisture content.
Well then, I have to change my vote from "just gross" to "dumb" then. It's dumb to eat shit that is unfit for human consumption, and I kinda suspected that it wasn't totally safe to eat from the beginning. This proves it.
