I don't know whether this practice is obtainable in other tribes. Why is it that the gizzard of the chicken is always reserved for the head of the family.

Step out of your tiny hamlet and see the world.

Its 2012 please!

it is true though. i remember the gizzard was always reserved for my dad.

Nice question, i have always thought about that too. Let's hope that someone would enlighten us on that here.

I thought ezotik used to be benin.

ifyalways: Step out of your tiny hamlet and see the world.

Its 2012 please!

if u have nothing meaniful to respond to the op's question, pls learn to simply pass or stand-by and learn. It may be 2012 but the culture of reserving the gizard for the head of a household is stil very much practised.

@op, weldone for bringing up such question. I hv also wondered why too. I hope to learn from fellow Nlanders(those who know the reason and ready to share).

tpia@:
I thought ezotik used to be benin.

well, the OP wanted to also know if it happens elsewhere. and yes, the gizzard was always reserved for my dad by my mum. kinda funny thinking about it now.

Uboma, if your parents denied you gizzard, go take out your frustrations on them.

@OP, why don't you(and others) ask your parents?which part of the chicken were you given(if any)?can you afford to have as much gizzards as you want now?would you deny your children gizzard too?

ifyalways: Uboma, if your parents denied you gizzard, go take out your frustrations on them.

@OP, why don't you(and others) ask your parents?which part of the chicken were you given(if any)?can you afford to have as much gizzards as you want now?would you deny your children gizzard too?

i will simply ignore u than trade words wit u. But my earlier advice to u stil stands.

@OP, not only the gizzard o, but the nyash as well! lolz. Omo, I've once witnessed how my uncle lambasted his wife cuz the delicate parts of the chicken(gizzard and nyash) disappeared from the pot into someone's stomach without his knowledge or approval - no be small yawa wey gas for house that day...

After my uncle's brouhaha, I had concluded it was a man's right to chop those orisirisi parts - So I decided to try it with my mum; At age 12 (small me), when my mum prepared chicken on one fateful day, I seriously demanded that the nyash and gizzard be left for me and was furious when I subsequently found out that she ate the 'MANLY' parts... Mehn, the beatingz I received that day...choi!

ifyalways: Step out of your tiny hamlet and see the world.

Its 2012 please!

Young lady I have one definition for u. You are a BIZAGA. Why trolling on my thread eternal spinster.

Poster is on point.

You don't joke with Gizzard (Eko) or the Hip region (Akpuru otule) of a fowl in my Family of those days. It's strictly reserved for my Extended family head.

aruzuoke: Young lady I have one definition for u. You are a BIZAGA. Why trolling on my thread eternal spinster.

You are an UZANGA of no known lineage. Crying all over the board because of gizzard?!

So, did you ever get to taste chicken(head, bones or limbs) as a kid or your parents ate all? What "chicken plans" do you have for your kids ?

Okpo Idoma!

Some people believe it is an aphrodisiac. If as a man you ever ate it you will understand. So,to some of you that wanted to know,every time your father ate the gizzard of a chicken,that night na helele for your mother.

Too bad everyone in my family is a vegetarian

hahhahahahaha.

Onye emetukwala Eke Okuko m aka!

It is divine. Simple as that.

Nonsense thread,don't generalize.!!,anybody eats The Gizzard in my home

Even though I'm an igbo man, i'm yet to understand this gizzard stuff. Well, i don't give a hoot about it.

No fytin here. Gizard are 4 elders not for mere sucklers here exchangin words

I guess is a culture which still exist till today in igboland even in my family. I don't know why but it has become a legacy and a sign of respect to the elders in the family.

Yes. When the only time you get to eat chicken was on very special occasion. Those parts mentioned were/are symbolic and the head of the family had rights to them. Then, if he didnt get to eat them, the woman was in serious trouble. How time have changed.

mojounited: @OP, not only the gizzard o, but the nyash as well! lolz. Omo, I've once witnessed how my uncle lambasted his wife cuz the delicate parts of the chicken(gizzard and nyash) disappeared from the pot into someone's stomach without his knowledge or approval - no be small yawa wey gas for house that day...

After my uncle's brouhaha, I had concluded it was a man's right to chop those orisirisi parts - So I decided to try it with my mum; At age 12 (small me), when my mum prepared chicken on one fateful day, I seriously demanded that the nyash and gizzard be left for me and was furious when I subsequently found out that she ate the 'MANLY' parts... Mehn, the beatingz I received that day...choi!

got me laughing like oyedepo!

ifyalways: Uboma, if your parents denied you gizzard, go take out your frustrations on them.

@OP, why don't you(and others) ask your parents?which part of the chicken were you given(if any)?can you afford to have as much gizzards as you want now?would you deny your children gizzard too?

u seem dumb ..

ifyalways: Step out of your tiny hamlet and see the world.

Its 2012 please!

Whether 2012 or not,i will never sit and watch a woman eat gizzard. God forbid.it will never happen until i turn to ashes

I think Ifyalways is a gizzard-eater
Woman, change your ways oo!!!

idowuswap: Nothing wey igbo no fit eat they can eat toilet flies.igbo wey chop vulture.igbo wey dey carry cocaine go see them 4 prison like flies.....

what of those people wey carry cocain put 4 garri go hajj?.. Them b ibo or yoruba?.

ifyalways: Uboma, if your parents denied you gizzard, go take out your frustrations on them.

@OP, why don't you(and others) ask your parents?which part of the chicken were you given(if any)?can you afford to have as much gizzards as you want now?would you deny your children gizzard too?

Lady,simply shut your trap if you have nothing meaningful to contribute.Miss I T K.

Lmaooo!
so truth, same thing use to happen in my house. Gizzard and the nyash was stritly for elders. Now, its first come first serve.

IMO, I don't think there's any spiritual undertone to the tradition of reserving the gizzard and the 'an.al region' of animals (mostly fowls) for the most elderly male character in an Igbo family. I think it's more a sign of respect. But males, in their egotistic nature, have attached so much interest in this 'tradition' that it now seems like a 'sacred ritual' in Igbo Land.
In those days, my dad never jokes with those body parts and will most times ask me to eat them when he is rested upon the fact that my mum reserved them for him.