Re: Bill to Chris. Gizzard and Kidneys

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Posted by MMMMarcia on March 09, 2001 at 18:21:48:

In Reply to: Bill to Chris. Gizzard and Kidneys posted by Bill R on March 09, 2001 at 16:18:56:


BILL: Okay color me dumb here. I thought the gizzard WAS the kidneys of the bird. No? I was talking about the same thing, but maybe thinking of it wrong.........

ME: Hey, Bill...I know I'm not Chris, but had to jump in for a moment here. The gizzard in a bird is an organ basically designed to make up for the bird's lack of teeth. It grinds the bird's food up to a digestible condition. It definitely does not produce or store urine. It is located, I believe, in the throat area of the bird, or at least above the stomach, as the food is processed there BEFORE going to the stomach for digestion. Urine, being a byproduct of digestion, never comes into contact with it. Howsever...that doesn't make it any tastier in MY book! Chewing on a chicken gizzard (one of my mother's favorite foods) is akin to eating chunks of vulcanized tire rubber, IMHO, only tougher and less tasty. Eeeek! I'll just have that wing, please! ;o)

BILL: That kidney/intestine from whales concoction sounds purely Way Up North Native American. I love to experiment, but there are SOME things I won't try.

ME: HA! This from a man who eats MARROW TOAST!!!??? *snort, snort!*

BILL: Worst thing I ever tried was camel. The Saudis had it in some kind of stew when they invited me for dinner. Luckily, they also had about four other main dishes served: a lamb stew, a chicken, a rice gumbo sorta thing, and a beef dish. All very good. The camel was dry as dust even in a stew and kinda stringy/rubbery. No thank you.

ME: Still sounds better than MARROW TOAST!! You Yankees are some STRANGE folks, I'll bedamnTELLya!

I'm just gonna go stir up my grits and greens, now. Got me some nice hawg jowl a-ballin' up with some black-eyed peas, and some corn pone near 'bout done. And that distant rumble I hear ain't thunder...*drool*

MMMM

: Bill R


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