sonofabitch stew

English

Alternative forms

• SOB stew
• son of a bitch stew
• son-of-a-bitch stew
• son-of-a-gun stew

Noun

sonofabitch stew (usually uncountable, plural sonofabitch stews)

1. (Western US) A cowboy dish of the Old West: a stew made with beef and offal.
   • 1951, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Riders of Judgment‎^[1], Second, published 2014, →ISBN:

     “Hambone, how's for chuck?”
     Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.”

   • 1981 October 21, Linda West Eckhardt, “Texas Eating: Ethnic variety with a frontier spirit”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 November 2017:

     Neither you nor I might like a Son-of-a-Bitch stew made from the organ meats of a milk-fed calf, but the cowboys liked it.

   • 2002, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food‎^[2], →ISBN:

     He can cull choice young animals for the pot and create triumphs of cruel gastronomy, like the baby beef of the gauchos or the Wyoming cattleman's sonofabitch stew based on the organ meats and brains of an unweaned calf.