Kishka
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Kishka (Polish: kiszka; Russian: кишка, kishka; Ukrainian: кишка, kyshka), is a Slavic word meaning gut, or intestine.
It is also an Eastern European blood sausage made with pig's blood and buckwheat or barley and traditionally served at breakfast. It is named after the pigs' intestines that are used as a casing. Jewish cuisine includes kishka made only with buckwheat kasha; pork products and the blood cannot be used in kosher cooking.
Kishka is also the name of a kind of prison cell in Soviet political prisons.ja:キシュカ