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1. In the United States, it is legal to sell this part of cattle for human consumption.
2. The Scots love their haggis, but who immortalized the dish in his 1787 poem "Address to a Haggis"?
3. In which meaningful "Monty Python" film does Mr Brown, a card carrying organ donor, refuse to give up his liver because he is "still using it"?
4. I don't usually eat offal, but for boerewors I will make an exception. From which former British colony do these tasty sausages originate?
5. "Waiter! Waiter! There's a really big worm in my steak and kidney pie!" The worm is most likely Dioctophyme renale, an occasional parasite of pig kidneys, but is better known as:
6. Perhaps some culinary experts thought the public could be fooled into eating more offal when they coined this sugary term?
7. According to this second book of the Bible and Torah, Aaron was to be consecrated as high priest and make an offering of the blood, fat and kidneys of a ram and bull. In which Old Testament book was this recorded?
8. In the "X-Files" episode "Squeeze", a mutant human, Eugene Tooms, emerged every thirty years to feed on this organ?
9. An exotic and rich paté made from goose or duck liver, pâté de foie gras might be considered one of the great culinary indulgences. However, it may not sound appealing in its literal English translation, which is:
10. Offal is often given euphemistic names, presumably to make the dish more appealing. Which one of the following is NOT a word for a type of offal?
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