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The turkey's spare parts drawer: heart, liver, gizzard, and a bag of regret.
means The edible internal bits of a bird — heart, liver, gizzard, and sometimes neck — usually bagged up inside the raw turkey or chicken you buy.
from From Middle English 'giblet,' borrowed from Old French 'gibelet,' meaning a stew of game birds' entrails — itself likely related to 'gibier,' French for game (as in hunted meat). The word narrowed over time from 'a dish made of innards' to just 'the innards themselves,' leaving English with a term for parts nobody quite knows what to do with, bagged and forgotten until Thanksgiving morning.
- etymology
- from old french gibelet, meaning game stew
- contents
- heart, liver, gizzard, sometimes the neck
- common fate
- simmered into gravy, then quietly discarded
- packaging surprise
- often hidden inside the bird in paper