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Offal , also called variety meats or organ meats, refers to the internal organs and entrails of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of edible organs, which varies by culture and region, but includes most internal organs excluding muscle and bone. As an English mass noun, the term "offal" has no plural form. Some cultures shy away from offal as food, while others use it as everyday food, or in delicacies. Certain offal dishes—including ''foie gras'', ''pâté'' and sweetbread—are considered gourmet food in international cuisine. Others remain part of traditional regional cuisine and may be consumed especially in connection with holidays. This includes Scottish haggis, Jewish chopped liver, Southern U.S. chitterlings, Mexican menudo as well as many other dishes. Intestines are traditionally used as casing for sausages. Depending on the context, offal may refer to those parts of an animal carcass discarded after butchering or skinning; it may also refer to the by-products of milled grains, such as corn or wheat.〔"Offal," (Merriam-Webster online dictionary, accessed 2 Nov. 2011 )〕 Offal not used directly for human or animal food is often processed in a rendering plant, producing material that is used for fertilizer or fuel; or in some cases, it may be added to commercially produced pet food. In earlier times, mobs sometimes threw offal and other rubbish at condemned criminals as a show of public disapproval:〔(Norton, Rictor. "The Vere Street Coterie, 1810," ''Gay History and Literature,'' ) accessed 2 Nov. 2011.〕 ==Etymology== The word shares its etymology with several Germanic words: Frisian ''ôffal'', German ''Abfall'' (''offall'' in some Western German dialects), ''afval'' in Dutch and Afrikaans, ''avfall'' in Norwegian and Swedish, and ''affald'' in Danish. These Germanic words all mean "garbage", or —literally— "off-fall", referring to that which has fallen off during butchering. However, these words are not often used to refer to food with the exception of Afrikaans in the agglutination ''afvalvleis'' (lit. "off-fall-meat") which does indeed mean offal.〔http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/boeretroos/resepte/resep-stampmielies/〕 For instance, the German word for offal is ''Innereien'' meaning innards. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word entered Middle English from Middle Dutch in the form afval, derived from af (off) and vallen (fall). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「offal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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