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