Re: Finding weird stuff in liver

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>I have some chicken liver, and cutting it up, I find these things that

>look like slugs or something, being a very dark brown-red bloody

>color, like liver, but much darker.

>

>I have no particular reason to think they are a parasite. They don't

>have eyes or legs or anything. And it seems reasonable to think they

>are parts of veins, only they seem to start and stop abruptly, and be

>kind of buried within the liver meat without being connected to

>anything else.

>

>Then again, of course, it's possible it just SEEMS like that because I

>cut them into pieces by cutting the liver apart. So maybe it is a

>major hepatic vein or something.

>

FWIW, I have eaten a load of chicken livers in my life. I've had

regular store bought, pastured organic chicken and turkey livers of

varying degrees. Never have I seen anything like what you are

describing. Beef liver does have visible veins, which appears as holes

here and there throughout the organ. Maybe someone who regularly guts

chickens will have a better answer as to whether or not it's the hepatic

or other vein chopped up. Is it from a good source? You could always

cook it if you weren't planning too (just in case it's a wormy thingy).

Good luck and may the force be with you! :-)

Deanna

[Guest guest]

On 8/30/05, Deanna Wagner <hl@...> wrote:

> FWIW, I have eaten a load of chicken livers in my life. I've had

> regular store bought, pastured organic chicken and turkey livers of

> varying degrees. Never have I seen anything like what you are

> describing. Beef liver does have visible veins, which appears as holes

> here and there throughout the organ. Maybe someone who regularly guts

> chickens will have a better answer as to whether or not it's the hepatic

> or other vein chopped up. Is it from a good source? You could always

> cook it if you weren't planning too (just in case it's a wormy thingy).

>

> Good luck and may the force be with you! :-)

I've been cooking all my liver-- usually for 45 seconds total. I

haven't eaten raw liver in ages. Well, that is just what they look

like -- holes. And then there are these blood clottish/veinish

looking things filling up the holes.

I'm not quite sure that I've never seen them. I find blood

clottish-looking things a lot in liver, though I usually don't find

them to be a half inch long like these ones, but that could just be

the angle I cut it at.

It's organic from Whole Foods.

I take 6 HCl/pepsin with my meals, so that would probably kill any

parasites, right? Plus a little cooking. These things certainly

aren't alive-- and probably (>90%?) aren't parasites anyway.

This is the one thing I hate about liver-- there's always weird things

in it. Blood clots, veins, fatty tissue that can't be cut through,

etc.

Chris

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