Naw - the cow chips are used to run off the bugs - in a ring of bug fire
around the camp.

That was the old method. Cheap and effective.

Martin

On 3/9/2012 10:29 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
John Grossbohlin wrote:
"Doug wrote in message
. ..
wrote in news:d-
:

Judging from the smell, real honest to bueno,
cooked-fresh-in-rural-Mexico, Menudo is indeed made from overripe
roadkill ... at least that is exactly what it smells like on the way
past your nose to your lips.

That said, if you can ever get it past those lips ...

And that, my friend, is exactly the reason that God put the nose
right above the mouth.

So what kind of wood/smoke yields the best flavor?

Cow chips - before they get lit on fire...