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variety meat

 
Dictionary: variety meat

n.
  1. Meat, such as liver or sweetbreads, that has been taken from a part other than skeletal muscles.
  2. Meat, such as sausage, that has been processed.

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Food and Nutrition: variety meat
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American name for offal.

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Called offal in Great Britain, variety meats are animal innards and extremities that can be used in cooking or in the production of foods such as sausage. The category includes brains, cheeks (see bath chaps), intestines (chitterlings), feet and ankles (pig's feet), heart, kidneys lungs (lights), liver, marrowbone, spleen (melt), stomach (tripe; hog maw), tail (see oxtail), testicles (fries), thymus and pancreas (sweetbreads) and tongue.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: edible viscera of a butchered animal
  Synonym: organs


 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Food and Nutrition. A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. Copyright © 1995, 2003, 2005 by A. E. Bender and D. A. Bender. All rights reserved.  Read more
Food Lover's Companion. Food Lover's Companion. Copyright © 2001 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
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