What are the dark bits inside the back of cooked poultry?

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What are the dark bits inside the back of cooked poultry?

Post: # 292266Post Annemieke »

When I eat poultry I aways love the little bits: heart, liver, kidneys, the bits of meat between the smaller bones, and most of all the dark, half-fluid stuff just inside the top of the back. My husband says it's called oedema, which sounds strange to me. It looks more like congealed blood. Does anyone know what I mean, and what is its name?
I bet it's very good for me too!
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Post: # 292267Post Green Aura »

I'm sure it is but I've got no idea,Annemieke.
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Sounds more like bruising from being badly handled

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Post: # 292281Post Annemieke »

Might be: then it's blood as I thought.
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