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Don’t get your giblets in a knot if your turkey is without them. Even purists find that in a pinch a broth made from chicken parts—legs, thighs, and wings—will substitute for the missing goblets—er, I mean giblets!

Is it a he or a she?

The world is made up of tom turkeys and hens—along with those cross-dressers that are labeled simply “turkey.” Generally, a tom weighs in at 16 pounds or more. Toms are male turkeys. A hen typically weighs less than 16 pounds. Hens are female turkeys.

One caller was surprised that, year after year, no matter what the weight of the turkey, she always wound up getting a male. When I asked her how she knew this, she replied, “Well, I always look inside and pull out that little bag of personal parts, and, sure enough, every year it’s a tom!” Apparently the caller mistook the neck for another part of the male anatomy . . . I can only visualize that turkey strutting around the barnyard!