pigs' feet
Americanplural noun
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The translation to "dirty beans" comes from the idea that so many different pork products — from pork shoulder to bacon to pigs' feet — can be added to the slow-cooked stewy beans.
From Salon ● May 4, 2022
There was a grocery store hawking dragon fruit and pigs’ feet, an underground DVD shop stocked with action flicks.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2018
Through collard greens, cornbread, okra, ham-hocks, chitterlings and pigs’ feet, neither can stop upping the ante.
From Economist ● May 5, 2016
Among the test foods were fourteen-year-old pea soup and beef stew, and twelve-year-old corned beef and pigs’ feet.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2013
The makeshift table was soon overflowing with food—oatmeal cookies, cheese grits, hot biscuits and honey, a sweet potato pie, Apple Brown Betty, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, corn pudding, pulled pork, and pickled pigs’ feet.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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