Yeah...that's the problem with Indian food...it's striking resemblence to vomit. Pretty much most of the items on the Indian buffet resemble it in some form (with the obvious exception of rice, bread.) Makes it that much more difficult to recruit people to come along with you...
But honestly, it's really delicious! It just looks really gross. It's a hard thing to describe- kind of spicy and creamy. All this talk is making me hungry
I've never had chitterlings, but I did sample tripe one summer when I was working at an Italian restaurant. It looked, smelled and tasted very gross.