chitlins
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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At Fair Deal Market, Mr. Mock stocked pork ribs, tails and ears, as well as oxtails, chitlins, ham hocks, neck bones and, around Christmas, hog heads.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2022
These intestines were not as elastic as chitlins I’ve had in the South.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2020
They can see how black eyed peas and greens can represent financial fortune and good luck but were perplexed by the chitlins.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2020
Chitterlings: Every year since 1965, the town of Salley, S.C., has hosted the world’s largest “Chitlin Strut,” where thousands gather to eat boiled or fried chitterlings, a.k.a. chitlins, made from pig intestines.
From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2017
She made her famous rice pudding and slow-cooked greens, chitlins, and the vats of spaghetti with meatballs she kept going on the stove for whenever cousins dropped by hungry.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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