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RoyGBiv wrote:

WildBill wrote:

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:Wings, gizzards, livers, necks, heck even chicken butts and mustard. It's all good.

In fact, I had a dinner of fried chicken livers last night. I never had chicken butts and mustard. I'll have to get them a try.

Count me in for chicken hearts and stomachs. Mom likes livers, necks, feet and rear-ends, but I never did get the taste for liver of any kind (except maybe real foie gras) and necks, feet and booties are too bony for me (although I do like the texture and taste of chicken feet, depending on the preparation/sauce). Ate more than my share of wings as a poor university student.

I've traveled many times to Asia and eaten pretty much everything put in front of me except brains. Probably the biggest pleasant surprise was pig ears and pig stomach. Never did get offered a snout. Rare that anything was not good enough for seconds... That's a pretty short list... Natto(Japan), Chotofu (same/similar thing from China)... Durian... Mostly stuff that stinks too bad to bother eating.

Smell is probably why I prefer collard and mustard greens to turnip greens.

This thread is getting me hungry.

Dave2 wrote:

WildBill wrote:Back to wings. The whole concept of "boneless" wings is funny to me.

I'd like to try boneless chicken "wings" that were cooked with the meat still on the bone. I'm not sure how that'd work... Bone-in tastes better, but I really hate having to chew around bones/gristle/cartilage, and having the whole thing coated in sauce makes them really messy eats (which sucks when you need to eat and work at the same time).

Dave2 wrote:

gmckinl wrote:Personally, YMMV, but I can't understand why anyone would eat chicken/turkey breasts (white meat). It is gross, dry, tasteless psuedo meat.

Well sure, if you cook it wrong... It's the same with most any meat. Once I even managed to dry out sausage.

Abraham wrote:Gizzards - The other gristle!

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:Wings, gizzards, livers, necks, heck even chicken butts and mustard. It's all good.

Jaguar wrote:

Abraham wrote:People actually eat chicken wings and it stumps me - why?

What next are people gonna be bamboozled into thinking is a great food item?

Same thing with "skirt steak", now known as Fajita meat. Once was the lowly dregs of the butchered bovine, now the heralded first choice in Mexican restaurants. My mother, rest her soul, would not eat fajitas, her father worked for a processing plant and they would dine on skirt steak almost exclusively, since they were giving that away.

Abraham wrote:People actually eat chicken wings and it stumps me - why?

Mostly fat, precious little meat and what there is somewhat difficult to access. I don't get the popularly of this tidbit of 'almost no chicken' that, when I'm eating real chicken meat like legs, thighs, - I simply pitch into the trash.

Frankly, when I buy whole chickens to barbecue, I'd be grateful if the wings were clipped off before I take them home.

What next are people gonna be bamboozled into thinking is a great food item?

Chicken beaks/feathers...?

I'm astonished that 'the part that went over the fence last' isn't also some wildly popular food item or will be some day.

No doubt in the future, some wily restauranteur/chef will start marketing this part of the chicken as a gourmet treat and crowds will flock to his eatery demanding this gustatorial delight. (not me)

74novaman wrote:I know that it's not a legally enforceable sign, but they've made their feelings on the 2nd amendment pretty clear so I choose to honor their decision by going elsewhere.

Besides, I like Pluckers better anyway.