Mar 24, 2009 08:52
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flaps
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Livestock / Animal Husbandry
The butchers chop off the heads of still breathing
animals, “dexterously stripping hides, tearing bodies open, and dragging out red satin lungs, half-empty stomachs, and intestines.” They blow through the windpipe of the slain animal to inflate the lungs and slap the distended organs and spit into the ***flaps*** to see if there are any vents that would make the animal unclean.
Some kind of valve?
It's from the novel 'Satan in Goray' by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
animals, “dexterously stripping hides, tearing bodies open, and dragging out red satin lungs, half-empty stomachs, and intestines.” They blow through the windpipe of the slain animal to inflate the lungs and slap the distended organs and spit into the ***flaps*** to see if there are any vents that would make the animal unclean.
Some kind of valve?
It's from the novel 'Satan in Goray' by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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| 4 | flaps = valves |
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| 4 | The Cows 3rd stomach |
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flaps = valves
Flaps (or flap valves) are the valves that open/close (access to) a certain organ, in this case probably the lungs (esophagus), the heart, the stomach. The butcher spits into the flap (valve) and then blows air into the organ to see if there are any vents (openings) - I guess the spit would fly out of the vent, rendering the animal unclean...
You may want to have confirmation from a doctor...
You may want to have confirmation from a doctor...
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The Cows 3rd stomach
3rd stomach) depending if it's got individual flaps or diamond shaped criss cross patterns. (supposedly it's also called beef omasum)
Omasum: The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-03-24 09:54:06 GMT)
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A cow has four stomachs: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. The rumen is the largest stomach and acts as a fermentation chamber. The abomasum is last of the four and is comparable in both structure and function to the human stomach.
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-03-24 09:56:58 GMT)
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http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/586617
I like the beef stomach (not the white tripe with long "flaps" but the brown-ish one that has a kind of crisscross-y pattern).
Omasum: The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-03-24 09:54:06 GMT)
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A cow has four stomachs: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. The rumen is the largest stomach and acts as a fermentation chamber. The abomasum is last of the four and is comparable in both structure and function to the human stomach.
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-03-24 09:56:58 GMT)
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http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/586617
I like the beef stomach (not the white tripe with long "flaps" but the brown-ish one that has a kind of crisscross-y pattern).
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