chitlins
Americannoun
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Scene: Uncle Clifford goes to the after-funeral repast to pick up some chitlins for her grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022
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
But I didn’t care for pork ribs and became easily nauseated by the potent smell of chitlins, which blasted through the air every time our neighbors from Tennessee opened their front door.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2015
That year they had spareribs and chitlins and pan scrapple.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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