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Article: SON-OF-A-GUN STEW DREW EXPLETIVES FROM COWBOYS.(Spotlight)

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November 2, 1997
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Byline: Rebecca Jones

Where did the term ``son-of-a-gun stew'' come from? - Walter Faulkner, Jefferson County

For the record, it's not actually son-of-a-gun, says Sam Arnold, owner of The Fort restaurant in Morrison and an expert on all sorts of edible oddities. Rather, imagine what a cowboy might say when presented with a stew containing the marrow gut, which is the tube that connects a calf's two stomachs.

``Our Puritan ethics cleaned it up to son-of-a-gun,'' Arnold says. ``They liked the stew, but because the ingredient was so unusual, that's what they called it.''

For the stout-hearted, here's some further explanation: When a ...

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