Limericks, Rated R

Tripe

Whether chitlins, haggis or puck,
Entrails on a plate simply suck;
You’ve got reason to gripe,
If you can’t stomach tripe,
‘Cause the stuff is just offal as fuck.

Tripe refers to the edible offal—that is, entrails and organs, such as stomach, liver, heart, kidneys, lungs, heart and spleen—of butchered animals. One’s culture dictates whether it’s a delicacy or utterly disgusting shit. The joke here regards the wordplay between awful and offal.

2 thoughts on “Tripe

  1. I grew up on callos a la madrileña, which was always served with chorizo (blood sausage) that looks a lot like Stumpy’s pecker after he visits Roxanne.

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