gristly
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Some of the best food we enjoy today started as “peasant meals” — made out of cheap, discarded ingredients treated with love, often braised or smoked until they transform from gristly to glorious meats.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Yet with a little sugar, and a simmering dembow beat, Towers’ gristly timbre elasticized into a warm, caramelized tone all his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
The reason for sketching this process out in such gristly, unpleasant detail is that there remains a significant body of opinion that is convinced people put themselves through all this for a laugh.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2021
Nothing is more unsatisfactory than handing your dog a tasty treat only to have it disappear down their gullet without even a moment of savoring the jus clinging to that succulent gristly end of beef.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2019
Too rancid and gristly even for the crows, it was crawling with maggots.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
And it had something beautiful too, Brazil’s team of all the No 10s broken like a butterfly on a wheel by the gristlier, more industrial football of Italy’s champions-in-waiting.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2020
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