Aristocrat’s offal

Meaning

Lemma.

Fressure is edible offal, including the heart, liver and lungs of a slaughtered animal. Delourmel boasts of wanting aristocratic fressure washed down with wine immediately after tender talk about his sick daughter. The edition’s “lights” captures the lungs but is narrower than the full French range. The culinary threat is figurative; the passage does not narrate an act of cannibalism.