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>>> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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>>>> When my kids were small and I was poor and struggling, I'd make entire
>>>> pots of chicken soup with nothing but backs, necks and giblets.
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>>> My mother was greatly distressed when they stopped leaving a bag of
>>> giblets in frozen chicken. So presumably she used them in our soups too
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>> What? That's a sacrilege! Gotta have the giblets. :-)
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>> Cheri
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> The modern generation seemed to shun them. When we used to slaughter our
> own chooks not a part of them got wasted (except for the feathers...)

Us too. Mostly raised on a chicken/turkey ranch, lots of drop craws with the
young turkeys, so we used them as fryers, all of them...except as you say,
the feathers. Back in those days the folks would let us kids have a few
turkeys to clean and sell at Thanksgiving. Course, you couldn't do that now,
but we made some spending money that way. I hated all that candling,
milking, sheep shearing and stuff as a kid, but it seems nice in nostalgia.
:-)

Cheri