Menudo (soup) salt are added and boiled. Menudo is typically served with chopped raw onions, oregano, and lemon or lime segments along with corn or flour tortillas. Menudo almost always includes tripe, and some versions of the dish in Mexico also include honeycomb and "librillo" beef meat along with the beef feet and tendons. Versions of the dish which include meats other than tripe has a much longer cooking time. Pigs feet are also used in northern style menudo for example Chihuahua. The feet and tendons are boiled first at low to medium heat for about three hours. After the first three
Tripe chorba garlic in vinegar and hot red pepper. There is a variant of the soup with intestines instead of tripe. The soup was very popular with the working classes until the late 1980s, and there were many restaurants serving only shkembe chorba ("шкембеджийница", "shkembe-restaurant"). Later they were replaced by fast food restaurants but the soup is still highly regarded, and is part of the menu in any cheap to moderately-priced restaurant. Office workers avoid eating shkembe chorba at lunch, or eat it without adding garlic. The Romanian name for the sour tripe soup is "ciorbă de burtă" (from "ciorbă" 'sour soup'