menudo

[muh-noo-doh, me-noo-thaw]

noun

1. a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chiles, and hominy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of menudo¹

First recorded in 1900–05; from Mexican Spanish; compare Spanish menudos “giblets, innards,” noun use of menudo “small, insignificant,” from Latin minūtus; minute ², menu

Example Sentences

Alanís Garcia would come over for dinner after work nearly every night, around 6 p.m., and he loved all kinds of foods, from menudo and pozole to Chinese food, which he would eat with a fork, because he didn’t know how to use chopsticks, Alanis said.

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Founded in 1946 in Wilmington, Juanita’s Foods is the nation’s top seller of canned Mexican food staples, including pozole and menudo.

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Juanita’s Foods is the nation’s top seller of canned menudo — a traditional Mexican soup made from cow tripe — boasting more than 95% market share.

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Mexican cuisine comfort soup recipes inspired by the menudo still life at the newly reopened Hilbert Museum of California Art.

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Sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the grisly 1989 shotgun murders of their wealthy parents, Erik and Lyle Menendez saw support for their release surge following the release of a popular Netflix documentary last year and the discovery of potential new evidence that their father, Jose, sexually abused not only the brothers but also a former member of the boy band Menudo.

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