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Can I use it in a food-related context? "grilled sheep bowels with lemon juice"?
 
ostap77 said:
Can I use it in a food-related context? "grilled sheep bowels with lemon juice"?
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I don't think anybody would eat it if you did.
 
To be honest, ostap, it's not a dish I'd be tempted to order from a menu in a restaurant, or thank you for if you served it to me as a guest at your dinner table.

I'd rather just have the lemon juice.

Rover
 
It doesn't sound very appetising to me, but yes. Often, in a food context, unpleasant-sounding things are given euphemisms - don't know if there's one for 'bowels'. Perhaps the generic 'lights', or perhaps 'innards'...:?:

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BobK said:
It doesn't sound very appetising to me, but yes. Often, in a food context, unpleasant-sounding things are given euphemisms - don't know if there's one for 'bowels'. Perhaps the generic 'lights', or perhaps 'innards'...:?:

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We were having a conversation about different exotic foods anyone has ever tried. I was talking to an American friend of mine and he said that he would use the word "guts" instead of ''bowels" when talking about food. Frankly it doesn't sound good but it was very delicious.
 
Rover_KE said:
To be honest, ostap, it's not a dish I'd be tempted to order from a menu in a restaurant, or thank you for if you served it to me as a guest at your dinner table.

I'd rather just have the lemon juice.

Rover
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It's more like fast food. You get it from a street-side stand like hot dogs.
 
ostap77 said:
It's more like fast food. You get it from a street-side stand like hot dogs.
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'Different strokes for different folks!' Fast food is an excuse for some very strange tastes. One of the favoured Roman finger-foods was grilled rat - the tail made a very convenient handle.

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I am not a teacher.

Hog intestines as food are called "chitterlings" (pronounced CHIT-linz and often spelled "chitlins"). A Google search reveals that many people call sheep intestines as food "sheep chitterlings", which is much better than "bowels", which brings toilets to mind. A similar food word is, variously, "numbles", "umbles" or "humbles", which properly applies to deer only, and includes all the edible viscera. That's pretty rare.
 
Isn't "tripe" exactly it? (I do love beef tripe soup with lots of pepper and marjoram.)

PS: Oh, sorry, I was wrong. It's made of stomachs, not bowels.
 
Coolfootluke said:
I am not a teacher.

Hog intestines as food are called "chitterlings" (pronounced CHIT-linz and often spelled "chitlins"). A Google search reveals that many people call sheep intestines as food "sheep chitterlings", which is much better than "bowels", which brings toilets to mind. A similar food word is, variously, "numbles", "umbles" or "humbles", which properly applies to deer only, and includes all the edible viscera. That's pretty rare.
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Didn't know that about chitterlings. Thanks ;-)

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PS (I'm surprised that you mentioned umbles without mentioning 'a napron'.)
 
SoothingDave said:
It sounds offal to me. :-D

Offal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oy! I think I'm going to organ-ize a protest against bad puns! I simply can't stomach them! ;-)

And, OP, I think what you probably had was sheep intestines, not the bowels (two different body parts with different functions). Sheep intestines are common in Turkey and other Mediterranean countries, but like most meals consisting of an animals internal organs, they give it a more appetizing name. :)
 
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