# Organ meat with your turkey? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618 "2010-11-23T03:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/1 "2010-11-23T03:04:04Z")
I love organ meats. Liver, heart… anything, really. They’re both more textured and more flavorful than even good dark meat, and miles above white meat. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/2 "2010-11-23T03:09:42Z")
Turkey is for me, but organ meat is left as an offering for the bears. Yes, real bears come for it. We learned not to leave them in the roasting pan the year they took it off into the woods. Now we leave 'em f-a-r from the house. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/3 "2010-11-23T03:34:35Z")
Only organ meat I really like is heart. I will eat braunschweiger/liverwurst but can not choke down plain liver, and gizzards are just nasty rubbery crap that is best used to bait crab tidewater nets to get something worth eating. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/4 "2010-11-23T03:36:03Z")
A guy who raises chickens used to save all the hearts for me. Seems nobody wanted the heart, liver, gizzard. More for me! Hearts and liver, for sure – gizzard, not so much. I’ve seen what’s in 'em, before they’re cleaned out. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/5 "2010-11-23T03:49:27Z")
Liver, primarily. The rest I can take or leave. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/6 "2010-11-23T05:44:41Z")
I chop and cook up the heart and liver for the cats. The dogs seem to love the gizzard, so, I cook it up for them. The dogs get what heart and liver the cats don’t eat. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/7 "2010-11-23T05:48:28Z")
My Mom used to boil all the giblets and the neck to make a broth that went into the gravy. Except for the meat off the neck, the giblets were then left for the cats. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/8 "2010-11-23T06:15:25Z")
Give it to us raw, and wriggling! You keep nasty white meat! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/9 "2010-11-23T06:45:01Z")
I chop them up and add them to the stuffing. Except for the gizzard; that’s for the kittehs. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/10 "2010-11-23T07:02:06Z")
All organ meats are gross. Without exception, no matter what animal. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/11 "2010-11-23T07:07:59Z")
> [@nonacetone](#): > > I chop and cook up the heart and liver for the cats. The dogs seem to love the gizzard, so, I cook it up for them. The dogs get what heart and liver the cats don’t eat. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > My Mom used to boil all the giblets and the neck to make a broth that went into the gravy. Except for the meat off the neck, the giblets were then left for the cats. > [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > All organ meats are gross. Without exception, no matter what animal. Ick. I don’t like organ meat, no matter what animal. My husband loves liver, so I’ll fry it up and give it to him as an appetizer. I use the rest of the innards and the neck for broth, and I dice the giblets to give to the cats. I do pull the meat off the neck to add to the gravy. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/12 "2010-11-23T07:16:20Z")
Hm. This is a little more one-sided than I predicted it would be. At least a number of you have happy pets (and bears) in your vicinity. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/13 "2010-11-23T11:19:43Z")
I chop 'em all and boil them for gravy. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/14 "2010-11-23T14:42:18Z")
Those are for gravy, not for eating! My Mom eats the heart, which sort of grosses me out. At least she cooks it first. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/15 "2010-11-23T14:59:33Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > All organ meats are gross. Without exception, no matter what animal. Ick. Hey, I gotcher organ meat right here, sweetie, heh-heh-heh . . . 😃 [mutilation ensues] ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/16 "2010-11-23T15:02:06Z")
Organ meat has a flavor, just not one I like. There’s a nasty bitterness to it. My dad eats all that crap. Brains, fish eyes, chittlins, you name it. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/17 "2010-11-23T21:08:40Z")
Giblet gravy, baby! But not the liver - that gets sampled while I do the picking of the neck meat and chopping that with the heart and gizzard. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/18 "2010-11-23T21:33:14Z")
I just finished cooking and chopping a big tray of necks and gizzards! I use them (with the stock) for my gravy and I also put some in my dressing. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/19 "2010-11-23T22:37:47Z")
I have 2 dogs and a cat that wont eat turkey innards. Why would I? ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/organ-meat-with-your-turkey/561618/20 "2010-11-23T23:33:05Z")
I think the older generations liked them. My mum and dad and everyone in their age group loved them so much. The young-uns hated them As always the dog ate anything and the cat would eat it unless you told her that cats love that kind of thing then she hated it.