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post #61 of 66
1/29/10 at 10:27pm
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Originally Posted by sho'nuff View Post
haha. thanks brother. but it really isnt my birthday that is just a fake day. required me to put one in.

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post #62 of 66
1/29/10 at 11:46pm
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It would be interesting to see and understand the history behind it, but you're right. A lot of Americans don't really even associate meat with an animal. All most see is a steak. You never see the head, the brain, the eyes, the stomach linig, etc. I imagine it has something to do with America in its history being a relatively wealthy (and therefore wasteful) country, and not needing to eke out every ounce of flesh that it can from a single animal. We take what we want and discard the rest, and I can see how after doing that for generation after generation it can start to change how we view the parts we've been throwing away for so long.

I also think it's the industrialization of the way we treat meat in this country. The whole process is very opaque, and by the time it's packaged for cheap efficient shipping, we are far removed from the animal we eat. But you're right in the fact that we have the supposed luxury to eat just the muscles of meat since it is so cheap to produce at this industrial level. I say supposed because, in the past, it would be; but the way we go about the process today is to the detriment of the environment, the dignity of the animal itself, and the connection we have to what we eat.
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post #63 of 66
1/30/10 at 1:21am
has anyone heard the story that the word "chitlings" or "chitterlings" originates from the phrase "shit linings"? I heard this decades ago from black people, there is absolutely nothing on this on google.
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post #64 of 66
1/30/10 at 4:18am
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Originally Posted by pebblegrain View Post
has anyone heard the story that the word "chitlings" or "chitterlings" originates from the phrase "shit linings"? I heard this decades ago from black people, there is absolutely nothing on this on google.

Folk etymology.

Real etymology:

chit·ter·lings also chit·lins or chit·lings (chtlnz)
pl.n.
The small intestines of pigs, especially when cooked and eaten as food.
[From Middle English chiterling, probably diminutive of Old English *cieter, intestines.]
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post #65 of 66
1/30/10 at 9:55am
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Originally Posted by pebblegrain View Post
has anyone heard the story that the word "chitlings" or "chitterlings" originates from the phrase "shit linings"? I heard this decades ago from black people, there is absolutely nothing on this on google.
I've not heard this before, although growing up in the South I heard lots of references made to chitlings. It makes sense though.
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post #66 of 66
2/4/10 at 9:29pm
I hate seeing those damn pig heads.
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