chitlins

food
Also known as: chitterlings

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offal

  • offal
    In offal

    …cookery, with pork intestines, or chitterlings, being considered perhaps an archetypal fare of the rural poor. In this context, the parts are typically prepared by boiling or frying and served highly seasoned. Several of the same foods, such as calf’s liver for frying and jellied tripe and pickled beef tongue…

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soul food

  • Soul food staple: chicken-fried steak
    In soul food

    …hocks, liver, and chitlins (chitterlings; i.e., intestines) became part of the soul food repertoire. Barbecuing—the slow cooking of meat over a wood fire—became a specialty, with regional variations in sauces and seasonings. Opossums, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, and deer were hunted, and fish, frogs, crayfish, turtles, shellfish, and crabs were…

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