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...replace them. Meatpacking is a hard job at any salary. There's plenty of new technology in the meatpacking industry, but no machine has yet been invented to take over some of the toughest positions, like the role of gut snatcher, whose sole job is to tug the offal out of each freshly killed hog that comes down the line...
From this unappealing premise Author Patrick Süskind, 37, spins a tale as energetic and engaging as it is improbable. Immediately after giving birth, an unwed mother dumps her unwanted infant into a pile of fish offal, amid the "fiendish stench" of the nearby Cimetière des Innocents in Paris. Unfortunately, the baby's screams attract the attention of the police. They arrest the mother and hand her progeny over to church authorities, who baptize him Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. The tyke's wet nurses keep quitting. He drinks too greedily, they complain, and there is something else truly spooky about...
...keeping The Office, the mockumentary workplace sitcom that got low ratings but was the best new sitcom on any broadcast network last fall. Also returning will be critics' darling Scrubs -but not until later in the season, after star Zach Braff shoots a movie. Fear Factor, that offal-laden young-man magnet, is off the fall schedule, but will come back -presumably after one of those surefire hit shows is canceled. Next year is the last for Will & Grace, and The West Wing will probably be term-limited out at the end of next season...
...cloves of garlic and then covered with minced tomatoes, olive oil, dried oregano and maybe some thyme, then served with kritharaki, the tear-shaped Greek pasta, and chunks of feta. kokoretsi You need guts to eat this, and guts to make it - specifically, sheep's intestines stuffed with diced offal. Kokoretsi is a mainstay of tavern menus, particularly those along the Vlachika, a famous strip of butchers' tavernas, in the bustling district of Vari on Athens ' southern outskirts. The offal is wrapped in intestines and roasted on a spit. Slivers of meat are then sliced off as appetizers...
...sheep's head is a big deal in Lesotho, where most folks don't often get to enjoy meat. When they do, they like it rich and fatty, and they eat it right down to the offal. Presenting the crowning part of so prized a meal to a guest is no small gesture...