i would try them if given a chance. i think i'd like them braided and grilled, as i've seen on some travel cooking shows.
i guess a lot of this is about perspective. i saw a show once about how the inuit eat the digestive tract of seals that they hunt, containing poop and all.
since edible things are few and far between in perpetually icy climes, you must eat every bit of what fate affords you.
this includes seals, and what seals eat. since the latter is all fish, their poop is a concentrated fishy treat. lol.
i vuess you get past all of the snobbery when the other option is to starve or freeze to death.
so, with a little work, i say bring on the chitterlings.
and a lot of beer.