Offal

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Offal from goats for sale in a market in Istanbul

"Offal" is the name for the internal organs or entrails of a dead animal.

It means "eatable parts apart from the muscles". It includes the heart, kidneys, lungs, livers, intestines and brains. The word can also be used to cover other parts of the animal including the tongue, tail and feet. The word offal means the parts that fall off when the animal is cut up for meat. Offal from birds are called "giblets". In some parts of the world people eat offal, and in others doing so is considered taboo or strange.

Types

• Arteries
• Bone marrow
• Bladder
• Blood
• Brain
• Bronchus (Vessels of the Lungs which spread Air)
• Capillaries
• Cheeks
• Ears
• Eyes
• Gall bladder
• Gizzard
• Heart
• Hooves
• Horns
• Hide
• Kidneys
• Lips
• Liver
• Lungs
• Scrotum
• Spleen
• Pancreas
• Throat
• Testicles
• Tongue
• Tripe (four Stomach linings)
• Intestines
• Sweetbread
• Swim bladder (Organ in Fishes which helps them float in Water)
• Veins

Offal Media

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  A variety of pâtés (containing liver) on a platter

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  Calves' heads in a tripe shop

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  An uncooked small haggis

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  A serving of smalahove at Voss, Norway

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  Svið served with mashed potatoes and mashed turnips in Reykjavík

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  Pieds paquets, a regional specialty of Marseille and southern France

• Andouillette from Troyes on sale at a charcuterie in Montmartre, Paris

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  Kokoretsi cooking on a spit. The author took this photo on April 23, 2006 at his family's Greek Easter celebration in Dallas, TX.

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  Shkembe chorba