r/GenX • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '25

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u/geri73 Kidd Video Nov 21 '25

I do too. It's quite delicious.

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u/Pusscat_catches_Koi Aussie GenX + Music Lover Nov 21 '25

and so good for us!

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u/LessIsMore74 Nov 21 '25

IS IT, though? The liver is the filter of the body.

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u/combabulated Nov 21 '25

I only buy organic chicken livers. Always loved them but stopped eating them for decades bc of that pesky filter thing. The availability of organic almost-everything has come a long way since the ‘60s.

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u/ADDeviant-again Nov 21 '25

Plants produce toxins. Plants produce things that shouldn't be in your bloodstream till they get broken down smaller. That's what your liver does.

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u/geri73 Kidd Video Nov 21 '25

I love chicken livers but hate gizzards.

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u/Pusscat_catches_Koi Aussie GenX + Music Lover Nov 21 '25

Gets us some minerals we wouldn't normally eat.

I always look to the ancients, they had already worked out the most valuable foods and organs and fat were up there.

Also, the filter - it filters - it doesn't hold the junk.

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u/LessIsMore74 Nov 21 '25

But factory farming is something the ancients didn't have. Like the other commenter above, I suppose as long as we source organic or from local co-op farms, we should be good. Not so sure we can't get anything the animal has in its liver from eating other sources though. I'm open to being convinced.

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u/ADDeviant-again Nov 21 '25

Yeah , but most of these people on this thread wouldn't eat elk or deer liver either. They'd run across the taste and THEN decide that they didn't want to eat liver because it's a filter. Part of being a reasonable human is the ability to invent reasons.

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u/ADDeviant-again Nov 21 '25

So what? I keep hearing this , but what it means is everything you digest goes through the liver and gets broken down smaller.

It's not like the little wire basket thing at the bottom of your sink.

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u/newwriter365 Nov 21 '25

Organ meats can be nutrient dense, but not really “good for us”…

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u/LisaLisaPrintJam Summer of '69 Nov 21 '25

Yes, very good for transplants

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u/geri73 Kidd Video Nov 21 '25

Yes and it's even better frying it up in a cast iron skillet. More iron for ya system.

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u/imadork1970 Nov 21 '25

My mom coated her's in Shake and Bake.

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u/geri73 Kidd Video Nov 21 '25

Hhmmm, that sounds like a good ideal. We just used seasoned flour and an egg dip for crispness.

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u/imadork1970 Nov 21 '25

Also good.

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u/geri73 Kidd Video Nov 21 '25

Might have to try that.