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TIL there is a Filipino dish called pinapaitan, a kind of goat stew. It is seasoned with the goat’s bile (which makes it bitter) and offal, such as tripe, kidneys, liver, heart, intestines, pancreas, spleen, hide, or blood. One researcher suggested that men consume the dish as a display of machismo.

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