What Menudo means
Menudo is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "small things, the offal". It comes from Spanish menudo (small, minute; in the plural, offal). It is pronounced meh-NOO-doh, and it is most associated with northern Mexico.
Menudos in Spanish are the small parts of an animal, the offal. The word names the tripe, not the broth; central Mexico calls the same soup pancita or mondongo.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Pozole, menudo, birria, caldo. Mexican soup names are blunt and descriptive: menudo means "the small things", the offal that goes in it, and pozole comes from a Nahuatl word for foam, describing how the hominy blooms open as it cooks.
