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Can't say I know much about what my grandparents ate, but in moving to Mexico, have learned they let nothing go to waste. I have married a local Mexican woman, and normally eat authentic Mexican cuisine. I have now learned to have a strict don't ask don't tell policy about what I am eating. An example of why this has happened was when we were eating menudo (which I don't find too bad tasting) I bite into something so hard I can't even begin to chew it, so I take it out and place it on the table. She proceeds to tell me, I guess they left a tooth in there (I now make her prescreen my menudo for no teeth).
Very popular down here are tacos (duh), but not just tacos de asada (beef), they have (and people will order these before the beef tacos) cabesa (head), lengua (tongue), and a favorite of the wife tripita (stomach). I have watched them raise and kill the pigs, and yes, they cook all pieces of it, and don't even make bacon. So yes, Americans overall are picky eaters and only eat the best cuts.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention, chickens feet, also very popular down here, I haven't had any because I can't get past the way they look.
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