On Nov 18, 12:08*pm, Janet Bostwick > wrote:
> I was at Albertsons yesterday and saw that they had turkey giblets and
> turkey necks available separately for purchase. *Holy Smoke! *They
> wanted $1.99 per pound for the giblets and $2.99 per pound for the
> necks. *That's approximately what they're selling whole turkeys for.
> They turkey parts are priced like they are gold. *They ought to be
> ashamed of themselves.

Separating and presenting them costs money, as does throwing them away
when nobody buys them.

That's why I turn 89 cent a pound whole body fryers into $1.29 a pound
thighs and drumsticks, $1.99 a pound wings, and (up to) $3.50 a pound
boneless skinless breasts. The trimmings become free chicken broth.

Regarding the missing giblets subthread: Back when I tried buying the
tough, stringy Rocky the Range Hen (?), I was very surprised that this
expensive "all natural" chicken lacked the organs that cheap
industrial chickens somehow retained. Later I found out that inexpert
gutters would cut into the gall bladder, whose fluids would then soak
the liver.