Word: tripe
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...long history of offal eating. "We once were a nation that ate everything," says Ivan Day, a food historian who specializes in British and European cuisine. Lancashire, an industrial area in northwest England, is famous for its offal dishes, including liver, kidney, tripe (the lining of a cow's stomach), cow's heel, sheep's trotters and elder (cow's udder). There were more than 260 tripe shops in regional capital Manchester a century ago, many of which sold faggots, a traditional English dish made from a mixture of pork liver, fatty pork and herbs wrapped in an intestinal membrane...
...egalitarians. The first are the people who go on to become food critics and restaurant reviewers. They are the food snobs who know what they like and are unrelenting in their opinions. The egalitarians, on the other hand, are the ones who wax nostalgic about steaming bowls of tripe prepared by their mother in the winter, or the chicken feet they had at dim sum with their grandparents. For them, whether or not they like a food depends much more on the company and memories surrounding the dish than on the taste of the item itself. (Tripe, nota bene...
...David Aloian took her place. His experience included not girls’ but boys’ schools, such as Exeter and Belmont Hill. Among those from whom he sought advice, Drew was one of the most useful in explaining quirky customs and rituals such as “Tripe Night”—the threat of serving tripe instead of turkey at Thanksgiving dinner, the savings to be donated to the poor—and alerting him to the surprise party at dawn when the boarders departed for Christmas vacation. Instinctively, she knew that David Aloian liked...
...Duck, Porky Pig) and many other cartoons of the 1930s and '40s include jokes that kids don't have the cultural experience to understand. Shrek is the same. Do kids still need wonder and magic? Of course they do. Do they need classic stories turned into happily-ever-after tripe that doesn't even resemble the original? Absolutely not. Poniewozik only alluded to the fact that the Grimm brothers' fairy tales were originally quite grim and scary. So where can we find healthful magic for kids? Outside in nature and in books that don't insult the intelligence of children...
...mercifully dispenses with the usual “Bush is bad” tripe and instead discusses the general condition of politics...