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Meat

Bouncy Meatball Soup

This Chaoshan specialty makes it hard to resist playing with your food.

Beaver

Catholics once circumvented meatless fasts by claiming the semi-aquatic rodent was a fish.

Kulebyaka

The decadent, overloaded Russian pie once contained sturgeon spinal cord.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Mortadella

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Zarajos

In Cuenca, chefs transform offal into succulent tapas.

Francesinha

A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.

Corned beef, without its usual pink hue.

The Mystery of New England's Gray Corned Beef

The specialty is usually pink, but it looks different around Boston.

Anne Ewbank March 14, 2018

City Chicken

The Midwestern mock-poultry classic is fading away.

Peruvian Cylinder

An unassuming oil drum houses a three-tiered oven.

A row of smiling meat.

Smiley Fritz

The meat that literally puts a smile on Australians' faces.

A decadent heap of Pique a lo Macho.

Pique a lo Macho

Can you finish Bolivia's enormous starch-and-protein explosion?

Cuts of meat displayed at the butcher in Biarritz, France.

The Prevailing Theory Behind Meat Sweats

It's not just you.

Paula Mejia December 20, 2017

A kholodet with shredded meat and an egg.

Kholodets

Savory meat jelly with a dollop of spicy mustard is a customary New Year's dish in Russia.

Alheira

This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.

A cow being fed by his owner.

In 19th-Century Britain, The Hottest Status Symbol Was a Painting of Your Cow

The livestock looked surprisingly geometric.

Anne Ewbank December 13, 2017

Buchada de bode, showcasing the distinct pattern of a goat's stomach lining.

Buchada de Bode

If haggis had a South American cousin, this would be it.

A bowl of monkey gland sauce ready to be spread across red meat, poultry, or fish.

Monkey Gland Sauce

No primates were harmed in the making of this South African steak sauce.

Uncooked Swedish meatballs. Now imagine 20 tons of these.

A 20-Ton Meatball Spill Surprises Swedish Drivers

If only they'd fallen onto plates.

Paula Mejia November 20, 2017