Coughing up a pile of meat-like stuff is usually not really meat, but may be jelly-like sputum, pus sputum, etc. Its common causes are: Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia, chronic pharyngitis, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. 1. Klebsiella pneumonia: mostly due to long-term smoking, or suffering from underlying lung diseases and other factors triggered by decreased immunity, infection with Klebsiella, resulting in patients coughing up sputum is very viscous, dark brown, brick-red jellied sputum, so it looks like coughing up meat like sputum. 2. Chronic pharyngitis: mostly due to environmental bacteria, viruses and other stimulation of the mucous membrane of the throat. Patients can also be manifested as coughing up pus sputum, which looks like coughing up meat. 3. Chronic bronchitis, pneumonia: patients can cough up jelly-like sputum, there can also be dry cough symptoms, some patients coughing violently, but also cause the mucous membrane blood vessel rupture, sputum with the phenomenon of blood, will also look like coughing up a pile of meat like things. Coughing up something like meat may also be seen in other diseases, if the symptoms are serious, you need to consult a doctor and cooperate with the treatment.