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pigs' feet

American  

plural noun

Cooking.
  1. the feet of swine cooked and marinated in brine, sugar, spices, etc.


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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

The pork soup called gochu ramyun has a similarly lavish texture; heavy on the slippery collagen that holds pigs’ feet together, it glides across your lips.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017

Through collard greens, cornbread, okra, ham-hocks, chitterlings and pigs’ feet, neither can stop upping the ante.

From Economist • May 5, 2016

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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