Talk:Chitterlings

message: Chitlins are eaten in other countries as well.  In southern China, I had the best chitlins I've ever eaten served with greens and liver.  Chinese chitlins need mentioning.Onionhound 11:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What about the smell? Bastie 05:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless thoroughly pre-cooked (for a whole day), chitlins smell rather awful in the cooking pot.  Southern folk wisdom says throwing in an apple or a potato helps absorb the odors. 04:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  2005 

message: Chitterlings as I understood it are similar to what are called 'Scratchings' or 'Pork Rinds' not intestines. I made the mistake of typing 'Chitlings' and this certainly wasn't the same thing as I encountered. Le Gibbon (talk) 04:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They are indeed one in the same.  Check out this for another source for definitions and alternate spellings. τßōиЄ2001 (ǂ ) 04:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

text: no, you ain't correct. Chitlins is the intestine and pork rins is the skin. sorry  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.64.176.226 (talk) 00:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hmm, are 'Chitterlings' actually the same as 'Chitlings'? 

message: Can it be added in this article whether the small intestines, large intestines, or both are used in this dish? Badagnani (talk) 00:20, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small or large intestines? 

message: I think that statement misleadingly implies most people in the south eat them, which being from the south I can say is not the case. (Most people here I've met are even reluctant to try them.) 24.144.53.105 (talk) 16:47, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "commonly eaten in the southern United States"? 

message: This article all too often succumbs to the "Gone with the Wind" school of American history, in which the Antebellum South is divided into rich white plantation owners and poor black slaves.  It's a very strange thing, but you see it all over.  I have no doubt that, on plantations owned by rich white people, chitterlings and snoots and trotters were food for the slaves, but that's because such things are "poor" food, not "black" food.  Romantic stories about "enterprising slaves" digging chitterlings out of the garbage are about as reliable as the folk histories every old white family has about burying the silver in the garden to hide it from the Yankees.  Look at any old "white folks" cookbook--look at the old editions of "The Joy of Cooking"--and you'll find the praises of chitterlings sung.  And as for the line about rich white folks "consider[ing] pig innards offal"--someone is a bit confused.  Innards are offal--that's what the word means.  It doesn't mean "bad" or "inedible," even though it sounds like the word "awful."
Offal comes from out fall.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.122.231 (talk) 08:15, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Folk History 

message: i work in a local grocery store. This past holiday season we had a number of requests for chitterlings (we don't sell them, but may next year). I'm really currious. Why would blacks want to consume something that had once been considered garbage? If I had been kept captive and fed pig guts, the last thing I'd want to do is continue the practice when released.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.35.97 (talk) 21:47, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Should be noted that chiitterlings, usually fried, are eaten by white southerners. Admittedly less frequently.  For just one source- []. 72.209.63.226 (talk) 22:16, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As compared to white southern cooking, black southern cooking and the food of the African American Diaspora (aka "Soul Food") tends to be (a) spicier and (b) a bit more conservative, holding on to things like chitterlings, hog maws, and collard greens, which are becoming increasingly rare in white households outside of very rural areas.  It's interesting to speculate on the reasons behind this conservatism, or perhaps we should say the willingness of southern whites to abandon a number of their traditional foods.  But let's speculate over a plate of chitterlings!  After all, if you've ever had a hot dog, you've already eaten every part of a pig... 50.13.219.4 (talk) 00:03, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are chitterlings still consumed by blacks? 

message: Not crazy about the term. Can that be replaced?--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:01, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Negro? 

message: They are also a VERY popular dish in Chinese and some other Asian communities, both at home in Asia and around the world. 
Usually prepared by washing very well and then slow cooking or pressure cooking and then slicing and eating or by a second cooking with various other ingredients to form a very tasty dish. 
Both the large and small intestines are prepared in this manner. 
Odour is reduced by using white pepper for some recipes. If prepared this way in the pressure cooker, the soup with Chinese cabbage added, is quite remarkable and tasty. 
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.183.178 (talk) 06:45, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Regions 

message: This article opens by noting that the alternate spellings "chitlins" and "chittlins" are in eye dialect.  According to the article about said dialect, this would mean that these other names for chitterlings use "nonstandard spelling that implies a pronunciation of the given word that is actually standard, such as wimmin for women."  However, these two terms are in fact not pronounced the same as the standard "chitterlings," and therefore are not in eye dialect, but are rather pronunciation spellings.  Unlike eye dialect, which is "dialect to the eye rather than to the ear" (to quote the article again), the words "chitlins" and "chittlins" are aimed at the ear, as they accurately reflect a common pronunciation of the word "chitterlings" by communities in the American South.  I'm pretty sure I have this right, so I'm going to go ahead and delete the reference to eye dialect.  If I'm misunderstanding this, please let me know and explain to me what I've got wrong.
--Danberbro (talk) 04:09, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: My question is: Why does the article read "sometimes pronounced chitlins" when, near as I can tell, that is the only pronunciation given?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.250.69.69 (talk) 19:42, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean "near as I can tell, in the United States, that is the only pronunciation given?"  The US is not the world; the world is not the US; Wikipedia is an international encyclopaedia. Here in the UK at least, where the word originated, they are pronounced 'chitterlings'. 86.138.69.102 (talk) 07:04, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The only pronunciation given by the Oxford English Dictionary (updated March 2021) is /ˈtʃɪtəlɪŋ/, which differs from the American pronuncation /ˈtʃɪtlɪŋ/ only by a schwa, so not a big difference. --Macrakis (talk) 18:25, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Eye Dialect

message: The article cites the Oxford English Dictionary for "Chitterling is a Middle English (1000-1400 AD) word".  The earliest date in the OED is "c. 1400".  I guess the 1000-1400 is meant to refer to the definition of Middle English, but it seems misleading.
?c1400   in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) 57   [Women quarrelling as they wash ‘inwards’ at the stream] Deinde solebamus crines evellere pungnis, cum cheterlingis et monifauldes mutuo nos cedere [= cædere].
c1440   Promp. Parv. 76   Chytyrlynge, scrutellum, scrutum.
Ranvaig (talk) 21:40, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entymology 

message: Someone added a reference to "dog eating cultures."  I thought this was probably someone trying to troll/deface and it didn't have anything to do with chitterlings so I removed that.  Rifter0x0000 (talk) 12:34, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  dogs??? 

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message: I removed text that doesn't seem to be supported by the provided link. I can see from Googling that Prince George's County caused the Chitlin' Market to be shut down but no evidence that they did so because of the store's name: https://thehill.com/capital-living/8828-queen-of-chitlins-wages-war-on-pg-county-council.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.32.242.117 (talk) 18:54, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 

message: There are several references to songs written involving Chitlins, but they're in different groups. Also, "It's Chitlin Cooking Time In Cheatham County" should be in there 71.197.192.246 (talk) 05:40, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chitlins songs