Question: "What does it
Answer: "It tastes like chicken."
I have heard this used to describe rabbit, frog legs, turtle, snake and probably some other meats that are not coming to me.
As an aside, the only one of the meats listed I have actually tried is frog legs - they kind of did taste like chicken. I tried them once when we were living in Quebec, and they seemed to be in the grocery store all the time. I probably won't have them again after watching my cousin make his frog legs do the can can across the table at The Grizzly House on one of our Christmas trips home. The image was a bit more than I needed - hilarious though!
So, why do we use this phrase to describe something that one would think would not be similar at all? I mean - why on earth would a snake and a chicken taste the same? I did some searching around on the internet and what I surmised was that it is used because of the bland taste of chicken.
Chicken has a bland taste? I guess I had not really thought about it before. I have issues with chicken. I have strong, serious issues with the way most chickens are raised. I actually went for a few years where I refused to buy/eat chicken at all. I try now and buy all my chicken and turkey from the Ekonk Turkey Hill Farm, although I believe soon my dairy farm Baldwin Brook Farm will be selling their chickens for meat (we now get our eggs from them - I love not only the way they taste, but that I get to see how the chickens live).
Almost a year ago I bought an 8lb chicken from the Turkey farm and put it in the freezer to save for a feast. Well, we went to friends for Thanksgiving and then home for Christmas and we never seemed to have the big feast we were planning. Sunday we pulled it out of the freezer and popped it into the oven. We did absolutely nothing to it besides add a bit of water and turn the oven on.
It was amazing. If you asked me what it tasted like, I would not be able to use the phrase "it tastes like chicken" and have you understand it. Sadly, that is exactly what it did. It tasted like chicken. It had a taste - and a good one at that. It also became an awesome broth that I will now freeze and use for some great winter soups.
An 8lb free range chicken. A chicken that ran around outside and lived. It probably tasted because those muscles actually got developed, giving the meat some taste? Or that it ate something besides corn? Or that it saw the sun? Any way I look at it, it made a heck of a good meal.
The price value also was pretty impressive. It was $30 for the 8lb chicken. My family of 4 could probably get at least 5 meals from that, plus I have enough chicken broth for probably 3 of the vat sized soups I make (each soup would probably have 20 mug size servings).
It does not taste like chicken!
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