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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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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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