offal

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* Have you or will you now cook offal?

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viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans

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noun

viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans

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noun

viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans

Example sentences

* Have you or will you now cook offal?

A good point - people are not so 'scared' of offal in some other cultures

Where it transpired that cattle offal was being fed back to cattle.

The meat from the pig head is really nice, and nothing at all like offal, which grosses me out.

* OK, pate, black pudding and haggis are exceptions; but you can't 'see' the offal in these, so it doesn't look like offal

But yes buying offal in regular supermarkets is pretty hard.

But most younger people won't go near offal*None of the butchers within a 10 mile radius of me make steak and kidney pies, only steak pies.

I don't know what pet food was like in the past, but today it seems to be dominated by flavoured products made of cereals, rather than meat or offal.

I know it's probably supposed to be pronounced like "Opal" with a slightly aspirated 'p' but I keep wanting to pronounce it "offal" or even "awful" instead.

I recently did a brief stint in academia; peripherally so, I grant, but close enough to see that sausage made, and indeed I had the rare privilege of seeing one particular lump of particularly indigestible offal picked apart and analyzed in microscopically unforgiving detail as a sort of teaching example, a short-hand demonstration of all the things which can and do separate the ideal of peer review from the reality.