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  • noun Plural form of offal.

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Examples

  • When night came again, I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat; and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food; for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • The resulting dishes: lamb belly, sauteed lamb offals you don't want to know, but I'll tell you...kidneys, sweetbreads, heart and liver, lamb ragu, and a garlic-thyme roasted leg of lamb sliced tableside with horseradish roasted potatoes.

    Jay Weston: Why I Am Having Two Dinners on Thanksgiving Jay Weston 2011

  • I adore Korean pickled vegetables that have been incarcerated for so long they are beginning to fizz, game birds hung until their butts are blue, and of course offals many and various.

    A really good dinner carries with it the faint whiff of death 2010

  • The most common dish involving all these delicious foods comes in a noodle soup form with various meats, offals, meat balls or seafood- 粿條, guo tiao (Mandarin), goh tiew (Cantonese) hu tieu, kway teow (Thai) and kuy teav (Khmer).

    Archive 2009-03-01 e d b m 2009

  • The most common dish involving all these delicious foods comes in a noodle soup form with various meats, offals, meat balls or seafood- 粿條, guo tiao (Mandarin), goh tiew (Cantonese) hu tieu, kway teow (Thai) and kuy teav (Khmer).

    Breakfast Noodles in Chinatown, Los Angeles - A Tasting of Chiu Chow Soup Noodles e d b m 2009

  • Iz uh lurvlee ivy cobered tree, Ferris Bueller style lawns and cul-de-sac occupied bai offals.

    Player Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • It's a consommé made with beef offals like tripe, intestine, blood cubes and liver.

    Stepping Into the Colorful, Tasteful World of Mexico - Oaxaca e d b m 2008

  • It's a consommé made with beef offals like tripe, intestine, blood cubes and liver.

    Archive 2008-01-01 e d b m 2008

  • But let us give, and do, with a high purpose; not to endow the scum of the earth, to its own greater corruption, with the offals of our duty.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • Lazarus lies howling at his gates for a few crumbs, he only seeks chippings, offals; let him roar and howl, famish, and eat his own flesh, he respects him not.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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