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offal
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synonyms: numbles ???
tags: [food]
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Definition:animal organs, primarily of the abdominal cavity; entrails
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the sale of meat did not apply to the more intimate organs of the butchered animal, such as the liver and the heart, and, in the case of a cow, the tripe. But the English, with characteristic bluntness, choose to call one of these in its cooked state an offal dish—pronounced as spelled and frequently tasting as pronounced.
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Eating in Two or Three Languages
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in Tolstóy’s view evil and cruelty can never have dignity. Only the good man or he who strives for the good can have dignity. It follows then that no conqueror can have dignity. Someday the human race will learn this, and it will despise conquerors as it despises necrophiles or eaters of offal.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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stray dogs scavenging around the butchers' stalls and the fishmongers' markets for offal amid the blood and flies.
Jonathan Harr. The Lost Painting, p.32 (2006)
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But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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