The term humble pie, for example, comes from pies made with umbles, or scraps of meat and offal that fed peasants who were seated far away from royalty at banquets.

Umbles, um′blz, n.pl. the entrails of a deer.—n.

They make excellent broth of the head and umbles of a deer, which they put into the pot all bloody.

The wild bird’s flesh is not their food, No common umbles are their dole; I nourish them well with infants’ blood, Those precious vipers of my soul.

Those peasants whom we came across Feared us, indeed, as they would the very Fiend, but bore us no malice; for we always treated them with civility, and not rarely gave them the Umbles and other inferior parts of the Deer, against their poor Christenings and Lyings-in.