Pig intestines.
They’re making cash for Shauna Anderson. She had this idea that there were large pockets of people in the Washington, D.C., area, many from the South, who grew up eating chitlins - a regional delicacy made of pig intestines. These people missed eating them, and they didn’t know how to cook them.
In late 1995, Anderson quit her government job and opened the Chitlin Market, selling hand-cleaned raw chitlins in 10-pound buckets. The operation started in Mount Rainier, Maryland, and grew so fast she had to move it to a larger storefront in Hyattsville, Maryland. In September 2000, she reached a tipping point, and converted to an Internet-only business, chitlinsbyshauna.com.
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