But I did have another kind of pig today for lunch.
Was invited to lunch at a local eatery here on Bonaire by a couple from Denmark we have known for a few years. The eatery is known for authentic Bonairean native food. It is located about a mile down a dirt road and is only open on weekends, but is very popular. We had to wait in line behind about ten people to get our order taken.
The menu, written on a blackboard, was in Papiamentu the local language. A very nice local man offered to interpret. One of the popular dishes was goat stew and another was a goat dinner. I had eaten the goat soup before and wanted to try something new.
One of the dishes was a pork soup (I would call their soups stew, but the word was sopa or soup), or at least that is what one of the words was soup and one translated to pork. That sounded safe enough so I ordered it.
Well when the soup came it was a very big bowl and very tasty. Had a starchy vegetable that tasted like a white sweet potato and a few other assorted vegetables. The broth was excellent. But when it came to the "pork" portion of the dish, they forgot all the good parts of the pig and what I quickly recognized by the texture and appearance of the so called meat was the cleaned innards of the pig. Yupp, gut soup. There was a piece or two of what looked like real meat that I ate and I even ate a piece or two of the intestine (just to be a good sport - our friends had paid for the meal and I did not want to appear ungrateful), but pretty much pushed it aside and ate the broth and vegetables. Cooked intestines just don't have the correct mouth feel for my tastes.
So much for going after the "safe" dish. Shoulda stuck with the roasted goat.
