the linings of pigs' stomachs, also commonly known as tripe. Notorious in soul food cooking because on the motherfuckin' plantation whitey would only give us the shitty parts of animals left over, such as pigs and cows, so niggas had to make do, ya know what I'm sayin'? Not to be confused with chitlins, which are pig intestines.
When I visited Mississippi for the first time at age 8, I had my first soul food dish of hogmaws and chitlins.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)