it was like someone with a mouth full of barbeque sauce...

*warning* this may me too much information for some of you...

so, the school invited all of the directors out to breakfast the other morning at a really nice hotel/spa. they had a buffet that was especially exciting because of all of the amazing fresh fruit, which was like a breath of fresh air compared to the typical mexican fair of late.
after i had eaten my fill of pineapple, mango, guayaba, melon, honeydew and watermelon and all i could handle of the freshly prepared fruit juice cocktails, someone asked me it i had tried the 'lengua' or the 'panza'.
no, i hadn't. but i had considered it seeing as how i would not likely ever buy it for myself, making this a possible once in a lifetime thing.
i let them cajole me into trying them, and this is my reaction. perhaps i am exposing my closed mind, here, but it is what it is.

'lengua' is cow tongue. it is quite tender and served in a red sauce. that doesn't disguise the fact that it is a tongue, complete with taste buds. so when i say 'it was like someone with a mouthful of barbecue sauce stuck their tongue in my mouth', that's exactly what i mean. the trick then, was chewing it up and swallowing it. i may be affected for life.
the next thing on my plate to try was panza- cow stomach. as far as i can tell it didn't have much of a flavor, but that is quite likely due to the fact that i drown it in lemon juice. it was otherwise like trying to chew up a rubber band, to which i offered a weak effort and big swallow.

later, i went to the big market to get these pictures so you can visualize what i ate.

in terms of being open to new experiences, i can say that i am. and i can also say that i am glad that eating panza and lengua are no longer new experiences for me.