O.k....that's a line from the Simpsons when Grampa puts his false teeth in a hamburger bun so that he can liven up his job at Krusty Burger. Unfortunately his teeth sandwich gets wrapped up and served to a drive through customer. And it does bite the customer.
I did not try to eat a false teeth sandwich but I did try lengua this past weekend! Lengua is tongue and it is popular in Mexican dishes. Presumably, the taco could taste me...right?? I had a taco that looks very similar to this one:
It was good! It surprised me that it was gray which almost constantly reminded me that it was not a "regular" meat to me but a special meat. And that specialness was the fact that it was tongue. If you looked closely at it, you could also see the tastebuds but I tried not to look too closely.
It was very tender and tasted like chicken but a very tender chicken. The taco pictured above is pretty much like it was served: lengua, cilantro, onion on a flour tortilla. I'm not a big fan of cilantro so I took large chunks of it off but I kept some of it.
My advice is to try it! But if you can't get past the gray color (and it was really hard for me), I suggest mixing it into your rice and beans or covering it with salsa. I couldn't finish my meal so I saved it as a leftover and mixed it was my chalupa fixin's. When I couldn't see the grayness, I ate it readily. I could have not cheated but it was much easier to eat both items (chalupa and lengua) all mixed together.
I have heard that some lengua is served in a sauce so if you try it in a different restaurant, you might see something not gray. Or it might be cooked differently and not look the same. Any way you try it, try it! It's worth a trip out of your comfort zone :)
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Also from that Simpson's episode:
"We're out of special sauce! Here, put this jar of mayonnaise out in the sun."
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