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The "brown" - or it is more often said, the "bowls o' brown" - are a stew made by various pot-shops in the alleys of the area of [[King's Landing]] known as [[Flea Bottom]].  Brown is often cooked for very long periods of time, simmering for year after year inside huge tubs where it receives new ingredients while being constantly served to the poorest residents of the city.  Typical brown has a film of grease over it, and shows pieces of its vegetal ingredients; the meats are harder to identify, and most consumers don't want to try.
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The "brown" - or it is more often said, the "'''bowls o' brown'''" - are a stew made by various pot-shops in the alleys of the area of [[King's Landing]] known as [[Flea Bottom]].  Brown is often cooked for very long periods of time, simmering for year after year inside huge tubs where it receives new ingredients while being constantly served to the poorest residents of the city.  Typical brown has a film of grease over it, and shows pieces of its vegetal ingredients; the meats are harder to identify, and most consumers don't want to try.
  
 
Common brown ingredients include barley, carrot, onion, turnip and whatever pieces of meat its makers can get hold of and dare to include in it, including fish caught locally{{Ref|aGoT|65}}{{Ref|aCoK|17}}.  It is strongly implied that at least some pot-shops also use pidgeons, rats, and even dead bodies of dubious origin as bowl ingredients.   
 
Common brown ingredients include barley, carrot, onion, turnip and whatever pieces of meat its makers can get hold of and dare to include in it, including fish caught locally{{Ref|aGoT|65}}{{Ref|aCoK|17}}.  It is strongly implied that at least some pot-shops also use pidgeons, rats, and even dead bodies of dubious origin as bowl ingredients.   

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The "brown" - or it is more often said, the "bowls o' brown" - are a stew made by various pot-shops in the alleys of the area of King's Landing known as Flea Bottom. Brown is often cooked for very long periods of time, simmering for year after year inside huge tubs where it receives new ingredients while being constantly served to the poorest residents of the city. Typical brown has a film of grease over it, and shows pieces of its vegetal ingredients; the meats are harder to identify, and most consumers don't want to try.

Common brown ingredients include barley, carrot, onion, turnip and whatever pieces of meat its makers can get hold of and dare to include in it, including fish caught locally[1][2]. It is strongly implied that at least some pot-shops also use pidgeons, rats, and even dead bodies of dubious origin as bowl ingredients.

It is reasonable to assume that hardly any meat is ever rejected by the pot-shops unless it is quite patently unfit for cooking; at one point Bronn claims that a pot-shop he knows uses "all kinds of meat" when asked to dispose of a murder victim[3]. It is possible, and probably usual, for consumers to pay for their servings with caught animals (and presumably other stew-worthy foods such as many vegetables) that will in turn become fresh ingredients for the brown.

Brown pot-shops are dangerous places, always being watched by people of questionable reputation and motivation.

Despite its dubious sanitary and ethical qualification, brown is an important source of nourishment for the less fortunate among King's Landing inhabitants.

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