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umble pie

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umble pie [ˈʌmbəl]
n
(Cookery) See humble pie [1]
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Crow historically would have been an optional ingredient of umble pie, though the meat was probably more often just boiled.
Eating crow can be a good thing by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Along the way we encounter mallard boiled in cabbage, pastry cases known as coffins, and umble pies which, far from being humble, turn out to be a swaggering blend of lambs' tails, pigs' feet and the soft palate of just about any animal that once snuffled round a smallholding.
Helpings from history's larder by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
And I don't have to eat humble pie by saying that - just bear in mind that that phrase comes from umble pie, and that umble was the old name for offal
Turkey Twizzlers by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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