(1) Breed type influenced (P less than .10) all traits except giblet and forequarter cut percentages.
(2) One happy online user described the marinades thus: "Turns ordinary, boring, everyday chicken into a Festival of Chicken, complete with chicken-skin streamers and party giblets".
(3) By then something of a local hero, he was tried out on TV, where his first foray culminated with him roasting a guinea fowl complete with giblets in their plastic bag (a Julia Child moment).
(4) Carcass yield traits included preslaughter, abdominal fat, giblet, pelt, visceral and carcass weights and dressing percentage; lean yield traits consisted of uncooked lean percentages from forequarter, hindquarter and loin primal cuts, adjusted total lean weight and overall meat to bone ratio.
(5) Giblet weights (heart + liver + gizzard) were significantly different among diets, but giblet weight appeared to be unrelated to amaranth level.
(6) In March 1989, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service sampled raw chicken carcasses and giblets at a federally inspected slaughter establishment in Puerto Rico to determine the effects of adding chlorine to carcass and giblet chill water on bacterial contents of raw poultry products.
(7) Over four 8-hour workdays, 200 carcass rinse samples were collected at 3 sites in the establishment; 39 giblet rinse samples were collected at 1 site.
(8) In turkey giblets, 16% of gizzards, 4% of hearts, 30% of livers and 8% of spleens were positive for the organism.
(9) Seven-wk body weight, 8-wk weight, weight gain, water consumption, infected feather follicle score, prekill and carcass without giblets weight were all significantly (P less than .05) affected by environmental treatment in both trials.
(10) In addition avoparcin produced significant increases in plucked weight and the proportion of visceral fat together with and decreases in the proportions of edible giblets and waste offal.
(11) Salmonellae were found on 12% of the giblets and necks sampled.
(12) Inocula of naturally infected chicken giblets suggested that there was a difference between two comparable brands of tetrathionate, but this was not statistically significant.
(13) The baseline results indicated aerobe plate count of log10 3.72; Enterobacteriaceae count of log10 2.90; E coli count of log10 1.14; and salmonellae on 69% of the giblets and necks sampled.
(14) High incidence of C. jejuni was recorded among chicken giblets (23.5%), followed by duck giblets (19%), then turkey giblets (14.5%) and finally squab giblets (4%).
(15) Evaluation criteria included the following: preslaughter and carcass weights; pelt, visceral, giblet, abdominal fat, and dressing percentages; percentages of carcass in loin, forequarter, and hindquarter primal cuts; and weight of lean in loin and ratio of lean to bone weight in loin cut.
(16) Analyses of the giblet and neck rinse samples indicated that raw giblets and necks after chilling had average aerobe plate count of log10 3.49, Enterobacteriaceae count of log10 2.57, and E coli count of log10 1.06.
(17) Birds fed the diet with 50% amaranth had giblets of equal size to birds fed the control diet.
(18) In chicken giblets, C. jejuni was isolated from gizzards, hearts, livers and spleens with incidences of 28%, 10%, 40% and 16% respectively while 24%, 6%, 36% and 10% of duck gizzards, hearts, livers and spleens were positive for the organism, respectively.
(19) Results compared favorably with giblet and neck rinse sample results obtained during a baseline sampling study in November and December 1987.
(20) A total of 200 poultry giblets, 50 each of chickens, ducks, squab and turkeys, were examined for the presence of Campylobacter jejuni.
Sweetbread
Definition:
(n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
(n.) The pancreas.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sweetbreads with mustard and oyster sauce, fried liquorice-salt piparra peppers and cuttlefish in an ají alioli – it’s tapas with imagination.
(2) In Uganda, they feasted on queen termites, which are fatty – like little sausages – with the texture of sweetbreads, the fragrance of foie gras and a delicate sweetness.
(3) You eat her burgers and her scotch eggs, her sweetbreads and her chowders, and all you can think is that you will never taste their like again anywhere else.
(4) In his book (chapters range from A for anchovy to V for veal) he proselytises on the tasteful use of non-trendy ingredients - kidneys, liver, sweetbreads and brains each merit a chapter.
(5) The menu (mains from £15) changes daily but summer fare has included sweetbreads, squid, duck hearts, samphire and pickled gooseberries.