Eat Dark Chicken Meat (an interesting article)

Ever notice how the price of wings in stores has gone up big time?
And there is a Huge Market for chicken Feet~
Huge. So much so that the Golden Plump processing plant 25 miles from me has a room just dedicated to sorting out chicken feet.

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(With apologies to the original):

Jack Sprat would eat no dark
His wife would eat no white
And so betwixt the two of them
They licked the platter bright.

Thanks for posting that article so I can continue to feel superior, lol.

I buy the leg quarters in big bags. They are cheap and can really stretch the food budget.

I couldn't stand white meat chicken until I started soaking it in salt water brine before cooking. Now I like it as much as, if not more than, dark meat. Juiciest meat you ever tasted.

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My Mother fed us chicken feet she would scald them , we had to pick off the skin, then she fried them for us , If we were good that day.
Like the thighs , legs, wings, keep that breast away from me, love the liver and giszzard.
Linda

I'm confused! What other part of a chicken would be shaped like a breast but would not be white meat?

For my tastes, I prefer the dark meat of chicken and white meat of turkey.

Martin

I love the legs and wings. Also love chicken liver.

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Ditto! Give me a leg any day

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We both can eat either, the light or the dark meat. But DSW prefers the dark side. And, I prefer the light side. So we are both happy, eating our preference.

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And that leg quarter makes some fine grilling also~~

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I’m not so sure “that Americans overwhelmingly prefer white chicken meat”. I think that’s what we’ve been sold because it’s easier to strip out the big chunk of beast and sell it for a premium. Give me the leg and thigh and leave the breast for sandwiches.

You got that right..fried in peanut oil!

[[[....What other part of a chicken would be shaped like a breast but would not be white meat? ...]]]

Most nugget and patty type breaded chicken is either extruded or chopped and formed. They can make it into any shape you prefer.

I wasn't aware of any drive through burger places that sell a real whole chicken breast. Doesn't mean that there isn't one somewhere. I don't buy fast food, so I am not seeing what they are selling, but my guess is that the 99 cent chicken patty sandwich is not made with a whole chicken breast, nor 100% breast meat, even if it is advertised as "white meat chicken".

The only way I've ever seen to purchase a whole chicken breast is to buy raw chicken that has not been pre-cooked, or breaded in any way.

Wendy's
Tender grilled whole chicken breast fillet with a delicious honey mustard sauce and crisp fresh toppings. All the flavor with only 8 grams of fat.
Maybe the only one for 'Fast Food" places. That is the large Fast Food places.

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I'll eat white, but much prefer dark. My kids all like dark too.

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I'll eat any part of it.
But good for Russia on standing up to chlorination and bleaching, even for the little while that they did . I don't care what the USDA says. It's not good and it's not healthy. Neither is all those chemicals and "supplements" (steroids in disguise) that are pumped into commercial chicken. That stuff will eat your organs away from the inside, little by little.

In Soviet Russia, you digest chicken. In USA, chicken digest YOU.

I am not picky about chicken, I think it is all pretty tasty! My youngest though, is extremely picky. She will only eat boneless, skinless chicken breast, and will not eat the breast tenderloins due to the tendon in it. She even makes homemade soup with these effectively tasteless bits, so she has to buy a decent stock or her soup tastes like water.

Interesting about the chlorine fuss. A good dash of bleach was often recommended in chicken rinse water years ago. Bleach solution also used to clean up afterward. That's one of the smells which always reminds me of the two butcher shops we used to have in this city. If the air smelled like bleach, one had a little more confidence in the meat. And that was long before we even heard of e-coli.

Martin

I bought some of those 10# bags of dark meat quarters, they made my family sick. I could smell the chlorine. I think that they were thought to be contaminated which was why they were so bleached and so cheep (about40 cent a pound). I always wash meats before cooking them. I prefer dark meat, my husband likes boneless meat. I can trick him with boneless thighs.

Boy I'm sure glad some folks like the dark meat. I get the warm fuzzies thinking about the craze over chicken wings. Dog food. P.T. Barnum would be smiling. He'd jump out of his grave and slap his momma if some 'genius' could get the masses to jump on the chicken foot bandwagon. [yes, I know, them krazi Asians go lady ga-ga over em... but them folks have vivid memories of starvation...]

One of my uncles tells tales of growing up in a family with 13 mouths to feed, plus hired help. The slow went hungry. The fast got fed. Hesitate by 'looking' at a piece of chicken and you got diddly... they ate what the could grab firstest. Head of the house got the good piece of meat, and the 'pups' got the scraps. Till this day, he won't eat chicken. My father was the same with pigmeat. My BIL won't touch pigmeat... they all "had" to eat it, the good, the bad, and the ugly bits, growing up.

Ya'll can have them off pieces... give me the breast.

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