On a recent Friday afternoon in Animal's empty dining room, Mr. Dotolo peered at a scribbled bubble chart on which he'd written the word "sweetbreads" in the biggest, center bubble. ❋ Katy McLaughlin (2011)
We went to a little restaurant, not at all fancy, but with very good food, where Isma was happy since with so many people to order and share different non-vegetarian plates, he was able to eat lots of other things than when the two of us go there alone (in which case he orders the sweetbreads, which is a favorite and something we never cook at home). ❋ Desayunoencama (2007)
Getting Sweetbreads Ready for Cooking -- The throat glands and the pancreas of calves, which, as has already been learned, are called sweetbreads, can be cooked in various ways for the table. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The 100 people in attendance Monday were treated to meat, and lots of it: chorizo, blood sausage, short ribs, beef filets and mollejas, the thymus gland (a k a sweetbreads). ❋ Unknown (2010)
According to Keyes, the tradition of using euphemisms for food is pretty widespread: thymus glands are known as sweetbreads, and bull testicles are known as Rocky Mountain oysters and prairie oysters. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Orielles de Christ (pig skin, available at the Vanderbilt in Brooklyn) and, of course, so-called sweetbreads (thymus and pancreas, available everywhere from Babbo to Prune to Little Italy). ❋ Unknown (2010)
The sweetbreads was my favorite thing, but again rather paltry portion. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I've eaten them before (ummn, sweetbreads, that is). ❋ Unknown (2008)
The more delicate meats, such as sweetbreads, fillets, fowls and turkeys sometimes are covered with buttered paper; this is done to prevent the heat from the top of the pan scorching or imparting too much of a roast flavor to the meats which are to be braised. ❋ Marion Harris Neil (N/A)
The special is usually a hot item, such as sweetbreads and tender-crisp pears on bed of roasted brussels sprout leaves with balsamic dressing.
There was a common theme of "sweetbreads" in just about all of our courses, a delicacy that I could do without. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Other appetizers include French regional specialties such as sweetbreads and duck confit, along with Asian favorites like seaweed salad and sashimi.
Thus far my day had been spent wandering the streets of Lyon, not Paris, eating braised Cochon, Terrines of duck liver and sweetbreads, chocolate filled croissants, and charcuterie. ❋ Garrett Weber-Gale (2010)
His golden broth, drawn from oxtails, is decorated with thin coins of carrot and tidbits of cauliflower, but also tender twists of pasta and just-warmed-through sweetbreads. ❋ Tom Sietsema (2011)
At his restaurant, Craigie on Main, he approaches all his ingredients—cabbage and carrots, squab and sweetbreads—with equal care. ❋ Kitty Greenwald (2011)
Currently the ragu has wild mushrooms and house-made morcilla, a Spanish pig's-blood sausage last week, sweetbreads stood in for sausage. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Hearty-yet-haute dishes—like pork-belly-wrapped veal sweetbreads with green tomatoes and rye-flour spaghetti with eggplant and kid goat ragu—helped earn him the reputation. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Fred - "mmmm [sheila] this [meals] fantastic"
[Sheila] - "Why yes they're sweetbreads" ❋ Shazza (2005)
Fred - "mmmm [sheila] this [meals] fantastic"
[Sheila] - "Why yes they're sweetbreads" ❋ Shazza (2005)
[Do Not] [Eat] Sweetbread!!! ❋ PlayDohMan (2004)
I hung my ass over the pier and dropped some [Florida sweetbreads].
We were swimming in the river and we dropped some Florida sweetbreads to keep the [gators] fed.
I was boogie boarding and pretty sure I [surfed] past some Florida sweetbreads.
We were boating all day and I dropped a few Florida sweetbreads through the day off the side. ❋ Dick Onchin (2020)