the tripes is the iconic dish of oporto. >> anthony: tripieros right?t's trip people. >> anthony: why? >> jose: there were a couple of stories, the more historical one i guess, henry the navigator at one point he was putting an armada of ships to go ceuta the people from oporto gave them all the meat they had. >> anthony: so they were left with just the tripe. cheap food for the sailors, that would last a long time. >> jose: usually it's on thursday, that's the day with the tripes. because being a catholic country on friday they skip the meat. >> anthony: a meal here is, generally speaking anyway, not light. the portuguese like pork, they like it a lot. >> anthony: so sausage, bacon -- >> jose: sausage, pigs ear -- >> anthony: cured pigs ear. what do you do when left with nothing but guts and hooves and odd bits? >> jose: you add the tripes in, some beans. >> anthony: figure out how to transform them into delicious, delicious things of course. oh wow, look at that. oh, it's fantastic. >> jose: smells delicious. >> anthony: yes, it does. should i put a l