They came up (not suprisingly) in a thread a bit ago. Someone posted a very funny experience that someone had had with andouilettes.
Here is a forum that has mixed views on andouilettes
The thing to remember is that the American Cajun ones are OK. The ones made in Lyon are, when you cut into them, a bit like the famous scene from Alien. Stand Back!
Another forum had this post [ QUOTE ]
I purchased some andouilettes -- chitterling sausages -- in a small town in France, thinking they were weisswurst. Well, they were weiss, but they were also the homonym for the latter. Perhaps it was just a bad batch. I vividly recall cutting into one. It was like cutting into a sack filled with tightly wound watch springs, and everything seemed to pop out in all directions. There was not enough mustard in all of France to mask the taste.