menudo

American  

[muh-noo-doh, me-noo-thaw] / məˈnu doʊ, mɛˈnu ðɔ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of menudo

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

The Female Menudo, where she sang alongside Sad Girl, the punk icon Alice Bag, who described Davis to me as “the most exciting and audacious performer I’ve ever worked with.”

From Los Angeles Times

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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