Tastes like ass

“Excuse me waiter, what is in the special bbq set?”

“A mix of pork, beef, sausage and organ meat”

“Such as…?”

“Blood sausage, cow utters, tripe, etc.”

“We’ll have one of those.”

Thirty minutes later I’m munching on some mystery piece of meat that was not in the original list. I already ate the utter and the tripe, while my mom’s partner is happily munching on a blood sausage.

“Excuse me waiter, what is this cut of meat? I’ve never seen it before.”

“That is the rear end of the cow.”

“…”

“…”

“You mean, the cow’s ass?”

“Well, not the outside.”

“I’m eating the colon and the anus?”

The waiter looked uncomfortable that I was speaking too loud and might scare other customers.

“It’s perfectly clean, and tasty. Wouldn’t you agree?”

During my time as a restaurant critic in Tokyo I ate a fair amount of strange cuts, the weirdest of which was beef “throat” or whatever you call the meat that hangs underneath a cow’s jaw. But charcoal-roasted cow anus is a first for me.

The ass was hidden underneath the mountain of meat