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Originally Posted by mszee
Now...if anybody tells you that rattlesnake tastes like chicken...rattlesnake does NOT taste like chicken...chicken tastes like chicken...
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You fell for that one huh?
Why is it that chicken is the scapegoat of the culinary world?
Any food that was never intended to be food in the first place seems to be given credibility by the eater with the explanation "it tastes like chicken".
I've used that line myself talking about Duck (though I really do believe duck tastes like chicken, only nicer).
In the first book in the Red Dwarf series, the character Rimmer is shown to hold the opinion that
DODO tastes like chicken, only much more expensive
Meat Loaf once famously wrote "smells like fried chicken" on one of the album pressings.
What the feck has the poor chicken done to deserve the constant comparison to some of the more unorthodox dining habits of man?
And what part of a chicken are things supposed to taste like?
Personally, I won't touch a chicken leg, but love a good bit of breast (que the titties and beer song) as they are very different.
So are all these things supposed to taste like leg, breast, or wing?
Perhaps it is this bountiful variety on one bird that lends the taste of it's meat to so many pretenders.
And what if a person had never had chicken before?
Someone gives them rattlesnake duck dodo in snail sauce and tells them "it tastes just like chicken".
That person is going to think "if this is what chicken tastes like, screw it".
The poor innocent chicken has his reputation sullied even further.
I think the chicken has been given a pretty raw deal
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