It was tripe in red sauce!
So...when I peered into the the tureen, it was all bright red liquid, with these bone-white strips of things that looked like the texture of a thermal t-shirt (kind of a waffle pattern) but appeared to be made out of vinyl or rubber floating and poking up out of it!
I was a fussy eater, and dug in my heels in an instant and decided there was no way I was going to eat that...it looked like the skin had been flayed off of some alien and them boiled in its own blood!
Hahaha...fortunately for me, everyone else including my dad had the same reaction!
I know tripe (the lining of a cow’s stomach) is supposed to be an Italian delicacy, but I was having no part of it!
When I lived in an Italian enclave, I used to hear about tripa, but no way!