Comments on: Extra Giblets in Your Chicken? I Smell a Lawsuit!

By: Miss Curly

Miss Curly — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:44:00 +0000

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.

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:17:42 +0000

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.

By: sw

sw — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:14:16 +0000

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

By: Scooter

Scooter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:04:45 +0000

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.

By: JeffB

JeffB — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:40:27 +0000

Any excuse to sue!

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:28:20 +0000

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.

By: nihil

nihil — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:22:00 +0000

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.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:59:55 +0000

“giblets complaints”

Just wanted to say that.

By: eni

eni — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:21:46 +0000

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

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:23:42 +0000

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…

By: Seventh

Seventh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:03:38 +0000

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!

By: Rocky Rook

Rocky Rook — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:29:53 +0000

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

By: Idil

Idil — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:15:07 +0000

It should not be discreet though!

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:34:42 +0000

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

By: Cinnamon

Cinnamon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:03:35 +0000

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

Some people really have enviable problems!