What Mondongo means
Mondongo is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "tripe". It comes from Spanish mondongo (tripe, entrails). It is pronounced mon-DON-goh, and it is most associated with Yucatán.
Etymology uncertain: probably related to mondejo, a stuffed belly, but the chain is not established. The word travelled the Caribbean, which is why mondongo names tripe soup from Yucatán to Colombia.
About this origin. The etymology is uncertain, disputed, or the name is a modern brand rather than an old word. The reading above is the best-supported one; food writing repeats stories that the dictionaries do not confirm.
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.
