Talk:Sweetbread

message: Hannibal Lecter prepares Sweetbreads with human organs at the beginning of Red Dragon. Should this go in the article? :)
:I don't think so. I don't see it's particularly relevant. KeithD 10:10, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the "popular" culture references should be removed.  Many foodstuffs are mentioned in popular culture and the mention in an encyclopedia article is against WP editorial policy.  VirginiaProp 18:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree, I just casually came here to find out what they are and I found the Hannibal Lecter factoid particularly interesting actually. I don't understand why it would be against policy. --Zelda2727 (talk) 05:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Your disagreement is wrong.  Pop Culture references are discouraged by WP policy (See WP:Trivia.  If you disagree with the policy, that's fine and you should bring it up on the appropriate page, but your statement that you "disagree" with a factual statement is pretty stupid.  74.72.91.209 (talk) 12:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually WP:Trivia does not discourage pop cultural references per se; it discourages disorganized lists of miscellaneous facts.  Pop cultural facts that are relevant to the article are encouraged. See also WikiProject Popular Culture. Dforest (talk) 20:33, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movies 

message: How did sweetbread get its name?
Need more info and reference on claim about vitamins and minerals.
Also needs nutritional info.  Possible health benefits?  used as cure for xxx ?  Chinese remedies?
Agreed, article needs nutritional info 99.237.184.220 (talk) 17:44, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing info 

message: Class of article is clearly at "start" class as opposed to "stub" as it has a substantial amount of information and at least one source.  However, WP editorial guidelines are not adhered to and it needs more sources and notes to move further.  Importance is at "mid" level.  VirginiaProp 18:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Food and Drink Assessment 

message: I have read at least 10 definitions of sweetbread online and none of them say it is the from the heart of the animal. Most say it comes from the thymus gland or pancreas and even the stomach. According to what I read, there are two locations for the thymus gland; they are found in the neck and and near the heart (which is why it is sometimes referred to as heart sweetbread). Regardless, almost all the definitions state sweetbreads come from the throat and pancreas. The consistency of this leads me to believe the information in this article is not entirely accurate. In fact, I've seen and heard of people eating beef/veal hearts and it was never referred to as sweetbread. So I truly believe they are totally different things and that this article is wrong. I guess I'll just have to ask my butcher to actually find out more about this. --Zelda2727 (talk) 06:06, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: after further research online I came across sweetbreads mentioned in a book preview on google called, Cupboard Love: A Dictionary Of Culinary Curiosities, By Mark Morton. Here is a link: http://books.google.com/books?id=qn-DASgdhiAC&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=culinary+dictionary+sweetbread&source=web&ots=Ka1HXvOLfE&sig=NaXp22Sv_H8yRnvMh4g0c39OwoE --Zelda2727 (talk) 09:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a sweetbread? Verification 

message: Need etymology. Why are they called sweetbreads? Badagnani (talk) 04:12, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In other words, why are sweetmeats made of bread, and sweetbread made of meat? 71.191.40.106 (talk) 01:51, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need etymology 

message: one sections says the heart sweet breads are preferred while the other says the throat. I'm going to remove both instances of saying one is preferred over the other.68.9.180.20 (talk) 01:52, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  preferred 

message: This is a pretty off putting image in my opinion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steviesteveo1984 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicer picture, perhaps just the sweetbread on its own? 

message: Article currently has: 
:"Bread" may come from Old English word "bræd" 'flesh.' http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=brawn Online Etymology Dictionary entry for "Brawn"
First of all, the ref should be to term=sweet, not term=brawn, because what needs to be supported is the claim that bread < bræd, not that bræd means flesh. Secondly, it's not clear where the Online Etym Dict gets bræd as "flesh" in OE.  OED has bræd as flesh in Proto-Germanic, but it is not attested in OE; its reflex brawn appears in Middle English, apparently via Old French.  What does appear is a verb brædan 'to roast'.  I don't know OE, so I don't know if it's plausible that the compound sweet+bræd could mean 'sweetroast'. On the other hand, OE bread had a meaning of 'morsel', and 'sweetmorsel' seems just as likely. --macrakis (talk) 16:53, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just an unreferenced thought: Wouldn't an obvious etymology for "sweet" be corruption from Dutch zwezerik? And instead of going all the way back to Old English, wouldn't Dutch braad (roast(ed)) be more, or just as, likely as OE bræd?86.83.56.115 (talk) 12:29, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, according to a Dutch etymological work, zwes- (earlier swes- or swees-, in the sense of "nice") is derived from PG swas- (="mine"/"our"), as is the English "sweet" (from OE swæs, first meaning "mine"/"our", later evolving to mean "beloved"), so there is no reason one language got it from the other, if both are derived from the same source. 86.83.56.115 (talk) 16:05, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: We have a separate article on ris de veau.  I don't see any reason for this; it is just the French term for veal sweetbreads, and WP is not a multilingual dictionary.  I recommend merger into this article. --macrakis (talk) 13:29, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ris de veau

message: The article mentions blanquette de veau as veal sweetbread cooked in sauce but this is not correct; there is absolutely no sweetbread in French blanquette. 2A01:E0A:8E6:A160:4017:5AB5:AD32:676 (talk) 20:29, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected, thanks. --Macrakis (talk) 22:23, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blanquette de veau