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Also known as pig's small intestine

right|thumb|upright=1.3|Chitterlings in broth Chitterlings ( ), sometimes spelled chitlins or chittlins, are a food most commonly made from the small intestines of pigs, though beef, lamb, goose and goat are also used, especially by Black Americans.

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offal
Country of origin
China
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Chitterlings
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Etymology and early usage
  • Preparation
  • Regional traditions
  • Europe
  • Balkans, Greece, and Turkey
  • France
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Jamaica
  • Mexico
  • See also
  • United States
  • Asia and Australasia
  • China
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Philippines
  • New Zealand
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

right|thumb|upright=1.3|Chitterlings in broth Chitterlings ( ), sometimes spelled chitlins or chittlins, are a food most commonly made from the small intestines of pigs, though beef, lamb, goose and goat are also used, especially by Black Americans.

They may be filled with a forcemeat to make sausage.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chitterlings” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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