Let Them Eat Giblets
Southern Living|November 2022
Why this mystery meat was conspicuously absent from my childhood feasts
Let Them Eat Giblets

WE WERE deprived of giblets when I was a boy. My mother distrusted them—as a rule— but not because they were organ meats, innards, and necks. We believed in livers, gizzards, and other such delicacies most of the time. I now understand that it actually had to do with the packaging of the bird and her suspicions about the vast turkey conglomerate.

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