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I go to thinking while I was eating some mac and cheese, one of my favorite foods comfort foods. i wonder if lizzie had of those comfort foods. like i like pizza and mac and cheese. Just wondered if she had them.
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I don't ever remember hearing anything about that. I'm sure she probably did, we all do. I doubt if it was pears though! lol
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I don't know, Pam, didn't Lizzie claim she ate 3, or was it 4, pears in 20 minutes, while hanging out in the barn?
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In a 1951 interview, Lizzie's second cousin, Grace Howe said:

"... When asked what foods Lizzie liked, Grace replied she could recall being at a restaurant in Boston with Lizzie where she ordered "tripe and mushrooms." "Unlike the famous mutton breakfast of 1892," the reporter wrote."

From Williams' Casebook, (p254} when she was in the hospital in 1926:

"...The nurses found her an uncooperative patient. They had difficulty keeping Lizzie, her bed, or her room in proper hospital order; she would not use a bedpan. Nor did Lizzie like hospital fare. Long ago, when imprisoned, she had had much of her food catered. This time her chauffeur brought food to the hospital daily from Laura Carr's in Providence, caterers of local renown. Orange sherbet was a favorite."

One source said she was admitted under the name Emma Borden, another said Mary Smith Borden.
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Tripe? Lizzie must have had a taste for the eccentric.
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Quick question-- what's tripe?
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Just looked up what tripe is. It's the stomach of cows and other animals. That is so gross!! :shock:
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snokkums wrote:Just looked up what tripe is. It's the stomach of cows and other animals. That is so gross!! :shock:
Well, all I can say is YUKE!!! How would you even go about developing a taste for something like that? Do you think having a farm would have brought her in contact with that? I was way off I thought it was fish!
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Nothing like a steaming dish of tripe topped off with a bowl of orange sherbet---

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Harry that is the best laugh out loud moment I have had in a while! That pic is great...btw I knew of a restaurant in West Bridgewater MA (now long gone) that made a big advertising deal out the the fact that they offered tripe! I guess it has a following among some of the older crowd...of course they are long gone so...
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Harry wrote:... Excuse me while I go out in the back yard under a pear tree and pull a Bridget.
If you don't mind, Harry, I think I'll go with you!!! :pale:

That just looks so gross!!! :shock:

Bet it taste like chicken! :lol:
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Is the green stuff on top a garnish or leftover cud? That looks about as inviting as haggis!
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I don't know if having a farm would have helped her with her decesion on eating and liking tripe, but sure sounds gross to me.
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A trip to the backyard, a la Bridget, would definitely be required after that meal. :puker:
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Thanks Harry!! A picture really is worth a thousand words! lol It doesn't even look like they tried to hide what it really is..... The sherbert looks tasty though!
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