Achura

Offal /ˈɒfəl/,^[1] also called, especially in the United States, variety meats or organ meats, refers to the internal organs and entrails of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of edible organs, which varies by culture and region, but includes most internal organs other than muscle and bone. As an English mass noun, the term "offal" has no plural form. Some cultures shy away from offal as food, while others use it as everyday food, or in delicacies.
Some offal dishes are considered gourmet food in international cuisine. This includes foie gras, pâté and sweetbreads. Other offal dishes remain part of traditional regional cuisine and may be consumed especially in connection with holidays. This includes Scottish haggis, Jewish chopped liver, Southern U.S. and African-American chitterlings, as well as many other dishes. Intestines are used as casing for sausages, although cheaper types may use artificial casing.
Depending on the context, offal may refer to those parts of an animal carcass discarded after butchering or skinning; it may also refer to the by-products of milled grains, such as corn or wheat.^[2] Offal not used directly for human or animal food is often processed in a rendering plant, producing material that is used for fertilizer or fuel; or in some cases, it may be added to commercially produced pet food.
In earlier times, mobs sometimes threw offal and other rubbish at condemned criminals as a show of public disapproval:^[3]

In 1809 Richard Thomas Dudman and Edward Wood were convicted of a "conspiracy" to commit sodomy, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment and to stand for one hour in the pillory, where they were pelted with offal supplied by the butchers of Newgate and Fleet Markets.

1 Etymology 2 Europe 2.1 United Kingdom 2.2 Nordic countries 2.3 Western Europe 2.4 Southern Europe 2.5 Eastern Europe 3 Latin America 4 Africa 5 Asia 5.1 East Asia 5.2 Southeast Asia 5.3 South Asia 5.4 Middle East 6 North America 6.1 United States 7 Australia 8 Health and food safety issues 9 See also 10 References 11 Bibliography 12 External links

Etymology
The word shares its etymology with several German words: Abfall (offall in some Western German dialects), afval in Dutch and Afrikaans, avfall in Norwegian and Swedish, and affald in Danish. These Germanic words all mean "garbage", or—literally—"off-fall", referring to that which has fallen off during butchering. However, these words are not used to refer to food. For instance, the German word for offal is Innereien.
Latin America
In some Latin American countries, such as Mexico, almost all internal parts and organs are consumed regularly. Chicken hearts, gizzards and livers are usually eaten fried or boiled, either alone, or in broth. Brainstem is served as soup, sopa de médula. The tongue is boiled to make tacos. Eyes are eaten as tacos de ojo. Tripas (intestines) are also eaten, but normally in tacos rather than stews. A popular dish is the "pancita", a stew of beef stomach. Tripe is also used to make menudo and mondongo. Cow's head is usually eaten as "Tacos de Cabeza", which include every part of the head: lips, cheeks, eyes, etc. Sheep's or goat's head are also eaten as part of the barbacoa, the "Montalayo" is dish made of chopped organs, spiced with Adobo, and cooked inside of the sheep stomach. This is known as "Menudo de Birria" in the Pacific states and is made with goat parts instead of sheep. Chopped carrots and potatoes can be added, as well as peas. Pork brains are considered a delicacy and are eaten in the deep fried Quezadillas de Sesos. Beef and pork liver are regularly eaten pan-fried with onion or breaded and deep-fried. The pork ears, feet and snout are pickled and eaten in tostadas. Elsewhere, as in Peru, beef heart is used for anticuchos - a sort of brochette.
In Brazil, churrasco (barbecue) often includes chicken hearts, roasted on a big skewer. The typical feijoada sometimes contains pork trimmings (ears, feet and tail). Gizzard stews, fried beef liver and beef stomach stews used to be more popular dishes in the past, but are nonetheless still consumed. Buchada, a popular dish from the northeast of the country, consists of the diced organs of a goat, which are seasoned and then sewn inside the goat's stomach and boiled.
In Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the traditional asado is often made along with several offal types (called "Achuras"), like chinchulines and tripa gorda (chitterlings), mollejas (sweetbreads) and riñón (cow's kidney). Sesos (brains) are used to make ravioli stuffing. Tongue is usually boiled, sliced and marinated with a mixture of oil, vinegar, salt, chopped peppers and garlic. Ccriadillas (testicles) are eaten mostly in cattle-raising regions.