Food Encyclopedia. Prized by gourmets throughout the world, sweetbreads are the thymus glands (called neck or throat sweetbreads) and pancreas (called heart, chest or stomach sweetbreads) of young animals, usually calf or lamb, sometimes pig.The former is elongated, the latter rounder and larger.weetbreads from milk-fed veal or young calves are considered the best. Those from young lamb are quite good, but beef sweetbreads are tougher and pork sweetbreads (unless from a piglet) have a rather strong flavor.
Wampanoag means People of the First Light. In 1616, John Smith erroneously identified the Wampanoags as Pakanoket. The Pakanoket tribes were centered around present day Bristol, Rhode Island. In 1614, Adriaen Block identified the Wampanoag's on his map as Wapanoos. Other names used to identify these tribes were Wapenock, Massasoit and Phillip's Indians.
The Wampanoag were one of the Alonquin tribes that lived in what English settlers later called New England. These Native Americans were farmers by nature. They also fished and hunted for food. They lived in villages and had men in charge called sachems. The tribes also had a Great Sachem, who was a sort of leader of all the tribes.