Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for July 17, 2009

I wouldn’t eat it either, Cruz.

I second that, Marg!

Well, you’re going to eat Tia Carmen’s lengua casserole!

I’ll eat it. Lengua, yum!

I just had to look up what went into it. Lengua = beef tongue. I’m with Cruz on this one.

I’ve eaten cow’s tongue.

Menudo, tambien. Never again

I refuse to taste food that can taste me back.

There was however, that cow tongue football tournament in college….

I think the best way to eat beef tongue is to have it ground up into hamburger with all those other disgusting parts. (We buy beef straight from the farmer, and that’s how we eat the tongue.)

Cruz! You’re offending Baldo’s Tía Carmen!

If you keep gagging like that, Tía Carmen and your mother might as well will use YOUR lengua (and Baldo’s too maybe) in their NEXT lengua casserole! (Yeah, I know, everybody. ¡El canibalismo no es bueno!)

sophisticated palates LOVE lengua, menudo, etc.

picky eaters are such simpletons’

well, i think i just learned how to say cannibalism in spanish thanks comixavier….

she should have waited to tell cruz what they were eating until after dinner. an old girlfriends mom did that to me, and after i had 3 helpings they told me it was ox tongue, if i had known i might not have eaten it

No way! I refuse to eat that lengua (cow beef tongue) NO WAY! BLEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCCHHHHHHHH!

Or bald, she could have told him the partial-truth that it is “beef casserole”.

(note: if the meat is ID’d as beef/veal or pork, that is stopper for me)

Being picky is sometimes the RESULT of having an experienced and sensitive palatte, not an impediment to developing one.

I’ve tried organ meats. I’ve tried oysters. I’ve tried caviar. I didn’t like them. I’m not going to try them again, even if it means struggling to find a polite way to decline when they’re offered.

Harry Dean Stanton’s line from the movie “Twister” (the 1989 indie, not the 1996 blockbuster): “If it’s an ‘acquired taste’, why should I BOTHER to acquire it?”

De gustibus non disputandum est. How many of YOU can truly appreciate the intriguing mixture of flavors that arise when you put peanut butter on a hot dog?

I refuese to even taste anything that might be tasting me in the process

Anyone who dismisses a foodstuff on sight because of what part of the animal it came from is too picky by half. The “tasting me in the process” line is a sure sign of a limited mind.

But then, hey, more lengua casserole for me! Yay!

lol well it would be kinda hard for it to taste ‘em anyway since you skin it and the taste buds are gone !

Hmmm at that she could have offered mountain oysters!!

The deli man asked me if I wanted tongue. “Heck, no I wouldn’t eat something from an animal’s mouth. Gimme a couple of eggs.”

I’ve never had lengua in a casserole. I’ve had it sliced and grilled though. Not bad.

Based on Carmen’s face, you’re going to eat it no matter what, even if she has to shove it down your throat.