If you blink, you'll miss seeing this little corner diner, with its almost invisible sign. Inside the baby blue dining room, there's a tiny counter, a scattering of tables and a simple menu posted above the bubbling deep-fryer and the grill: cheeseburgers, hot dogs, tenderloins, french fries and pig snoots. The Tenderloin Grill is one of the few metro-area restaurants that serves this offbeat delicacy, and it isn't for everyone. The rubbery, grayish-brown strip of stewed cartilage still boasts its two snout holes, and the texture is somewhere between soggy leather and boiled rubber. Unlike chitlins, it doesn't smell bad, but the visual appeal is so ghastly that not even melted cheese, sliced tomatoes and onion can make it seem as alluring as one of this restaurant's crispy pork tenderloins or hefty cheeseburgers. But try one. You'll go hog wild.
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