variety meat

1. See offal.

2. Meat, such as sausage, that has been processed.

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variety meat

(Cookery) chiefly US processed meat, such as sausage, or offal

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vari′ety meat`

edible meat other than the usual flesh, esp. organs, as tongue and liver.

[1945–50]

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variety meat - edible viscera of a butchered animal

organs

giblet, giblets - edible viscera of a fowl

meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food

offal - viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans

heart - a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); "a five-pound beef heart will serve six"

liver - liver of an animal used as meat

sweetbread, sweetbreads - edible glands of an animal

brain - the brain of certain animals used as meat

stomach sweetbread - edible pancreas of an animal

neck sweetbread, throat sweetbread - edible thymus gland of an animal

tongue - the tongue of certain animals used as meat

tripe - lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food

chitlings, chitlins, chitterlings - small intestines of hogs prepared as food

haslet - heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised

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