Re: Bill to Chris. Gizzard and Kidneys

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: 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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