In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:46:30 -0500, Omelet wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > Sqwertz > wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 17 May 2009 06:22:30 -0500, Omelet wrote:
> >>
> >>> In article >,
> >>> Sqwertz > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:30:05 -0500, Omelet wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I love gizzards. But, I know how to cook them tender. :-)
> >>>>> If nothing else, you could use them as a stock ingredient, then turn
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> meat into pet food.
> >>>>
> >>>> Just make sure you don't get free range chicken gizzards.
> >>>
> >>> Why?
> >>
> >> Because they're small and full of little rocks and dirt. FR
> >> chickens actually use their gizzards, unlike caged birds being fed
> >> controlled food.
> >
> > So iow, they've not been cleaned? Yeeks.
> > I can clean a gizzard, but don't understand why they'd sell them that
> > way!
>
> They're not worth cleaning, IMO. I wouldn't eat them if they
> required cleaning. Caged bird gizzards don't need cleaning.

If they need cleaning, I'd not purchase them either.
Around the holidays, turkey gizzards (cleaned) are easy to find at HEB.

>
> I'll stick to chicken hearts. All meat and no rocks, just
> heartworms!
>
> -sw

I'll pass... <shudder>

I've never seen heartworms in packages of poultry hearts!
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