Tripe

Tripe
Food information
Manufacturer	Hogwarts house-elves Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
Known ingredients	Stomach of a cow or ox

"Tripe, Sybill?"

— Minerva McGonagall in 1993

Tripe is the stomach of a cow or ox, it is eaten as a dish. Tripe is also used to mean nonsense as well as the food.

History

Bertie Botts Every Flavoured Beans

"- you know you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe."

— Ronald Weasley to Harry Potter

Tripe is one of the many flavours in the wizarding product, Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans according to Ronald Weasley. He thinks that tripe is a disgusting flavour.

1993

In 1993, tripe was served at the Great Hall at the Staff Table. Minerva McGonagall both offered Sybill Trelawney tripe as well as using tripe as a comment on Trelawney's previous remark.

1997

"Before we start, I want your Dementor essays. And I hope for your sake they are better than the tripe I had to endure on resisting the Imperius Curse."

— Severus Snape insulting the previous homework of the N.E.W.T class.

In the 1996–1997 school year, Professor Snape insulted his Defence Against the Dark Arts class about their essays on resisting the Imperius Curse, calling it tripe.

Behind the scenes

• Tripe is J. K. Rowling's least favourite food.
• "Tripe" seems also to be the surname of a wizarding Pure-blood family, since a Magenta Tripe was known to marry Licorus Black sometime in the 19th century.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban