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means A rich, spreadable paste made from finely ground or pureed meat, often liver, sometimes set with fat and served as a savory delicacy.
from Straight from the French pâté, meaning a pie or pastry-wrapped filling, which traces back through Old French to the Latin pasta — the same dough-y root behind 'pasta' and 'paste.' The original sense was meat baked inside crust; over time the spread itself kept the name, the pastry quietly retired. (Not to be confused with the unrelated 'pate' meaning the top of the head, which comes from a different, murkier source.)
- force-feeding
- Foie gras requires fattening livers via gavage tubes
- banned widely
- Outlawed in India, parts of US, several countries
- old word
- Pate also means the top of your skull
- peasant origins
- Started as humble way to use scrap meat
- ancient trick
- Egyptians overfed birds for fat livers 4,500 years ago
for instance
braunschweiger — german smoked liverwurst pâté, traditionally produced in brunswick since the 16th century