Extra Giblets in Your Chicken? I Smell a Lawsuit!

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on January 7, 2009 at 2:37 am


Usually, consumers are mad if things are missing in the product they buy, but this class action lawsuit is about something extra:

We were reminded of that scheming today when we read about what Courthouse News Service reports may be the first federal class action based on concealment of chicken giblets. In the complaint, Perdue Farms is accused of disposing of “an enormous quantity of extra giblet parts” by a “secret practice” of stuffing extra hearts, gizzards and necks into its whole chickens, thereby “dispos(ing) of its extra giblets” and tricking customers into paying the regular per-pound price for them.[...]

But aren’t gizzards the best part? Clearly these people have never tasted a good chicken giblet gravy. Indeed, when reached for comment, Julie DeYoung, a Perdue spokeswoman, told the Law Blog: “While it is company practice not to comment on pending litigation, I can tell you the majority of our giblets complaints are about MISSING giblets. We just received the lawsuit and will review it in more detail, but we anticipate a vigorous defense.”

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15 comments to "Extra Giblets in Your Chicken? I Smell a Lawsuit!"

  1. Cinnamon
    January 7th, 2009 at 7:03 am

    In the UK, we don’t even get the gizzards in fresh chickens.

    Some people really have enviable problems!

  2. Evilbeagle
    January 7th, 2009 at 7:34 am

    We have to go to an actual farmer or farm store to get giblets! I agree Cinnamon, a problem like this is enviable.

  3. Idil
    January 7th, 2009 at 8:15 am

    It should not be discreet though!

  4. Rocky Rook
    January 7th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I must have been a deprived child, because I don’t think I’ve ever eaten giblets.

  5. Seventh
    January 7th, 2009 at 10:03 am

    Last year, our Christmas turkey had two hearts in the bag of giblets. But there was only one kidney.

    I didn’t mind. My foster brother was learning about the circulatory system at school so I dug out my old university dissection kit and we spent Christmas morning doing a horizontal and a vertical dissection of the hearts.

    He got an A in the end of module test!

  6. Skipweasel
    January 7th, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Seventh:- Our six year old daughter asked for a rabbit for Christmas. I told her she’s a bit old for toy rabbits but she said “Not a toy, a real one.”
    I explained that keeping rabbits is a nuisance and messy and someone has to clean them out etc. She said “Oh, not a live one. I’d like a dead one so I can take it apart and see how it worked.”

    Perhaps later in the year…

  7. eni
    January 7th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    I haven’t had a chicken heart in years. I wish I knew where to find some… :(

  8. matt
    January 7th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    “giblets complaints”

    Just wanted to say that.

  9. nihil
    January 7th, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    My mother-in-law makes a wicked Chicken Paprikash with giblets, hearts and dumplings. Who doesn’t like fried giblets with hot sauce? (salivates)

    I can see the complaint thinking you’re paying for white or dark meat and getting a couple ounces of giblets thrown in the mix but I don’t understand why they didn’t just sell the giblets by themselves if they had extras.

  10. Rob
    January 7th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    People are afraid to eat guts anymore. It’s a shame really.

    It does make for an interesting role reversal from the medieval period: the “common” people now only eat the choice cuts of meat, and the rich regular dine on organ meats.

  11. JeffB
    January 7th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    Any excuse to sue!

  12. Scooter
    January 7th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    Someone should complain about getting less chicken by weight because there are bones in it. You just throw them away so really they should only weight the meat?

    Silly people.

  13. sw
    January 7th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    that’s ingenious! package your waste as a ‘bonus’!

  14. Evilbeagle
    January 7th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    Actually, Scooter, while most people throw bones away, they really shouldn’t, as they can be used to make stock. It’s better homemade, and it wastes none of the chicken.

  15. Miss Curly
    January 7th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    I was cleaning out a whole raw chicken the other day (I hate to touch raw chicken, so no easy feat for me), and I swear all of these extra giblets came out of it. They just kept coming out and coming out! I thought it was odd at the time, and needless to say, I was totally disgused. Now I know why!
    Chicken tasted just like chicken.


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