Everything Didn't Used To Taste Like Chicken

[ThomWV]

Know what a cow eats these days? Some sort of ground up shit, that's what they eat. They used to eat grass mostly.

Know what a pig eats these days? Same sort of ground up shit, that's what they eat. They used to eat roots mostly.

Know what a chicken eats these days? Same sort of ground up shit, that's what they eat. They used to eat bugs mostly.

Everything didn't used to taste like chicken, but now all tastes like the same sort of shit. Wonder why?




Note: To all those knowledgeable about the feeding of domestic livestock - I do not need or want a lesson on the history of the constituents of animal feed in post-revolutionary America - I was just trying to make a point about the denigration of society that accompanies mass marketing and the resultant homogeneity of every part of our lives.

[Monkeyman]

1. Snake Does Taste Like Chicken ask any vet who had jungle training

[ThomWV]

2. I went to Panama back in the late 60's

Yep, one of the early graduate of 'snake eaters' school.

[scarletwoman]

10. I'm just an old hippie who killed a rattlesnake that had strayed into the kids' play area

of the commune I was living at in the Santa Cruz mountains in the summer of '73. :hippie:

Since I had killed it, I felt I should eat it -- and I was curious besides.

Yes, it tasted like chicken, but more like combination of chicken and crab meat, imo. Quite palatable.

sw

[Warpy]

27. I ate rattlesnake when I was eight

As I recall, it wasn't bad.

[davsand]

3. It all tastes like chicken butt...

Funny how adding that extra T makes it more accurate!


Laura

[kestrel91316]

Yum, chicken butt. My grandma, who raised many a chicken of her own

on the ranch, always said her favorite part of the chicken was the part that went ver the fence last!

[davsand]

23. It tastes like chicken, but...

That is how it all began for me. EVERY new or different meat would get described as "It tastes like chicken, but..." As a kid I thought they were saying, "It tastes like chicken BUTT..."

I swear.



In my household, we use that phrase and we talk about the difference in the spelling. It makes us all laugh--and except for our nine year old--we are adults who are supposed to know better.


Laura

[Bucky]

4. Ironically, know what I ate for breakfast this morning? Some sort of ground up shit

plus a glass of OJ

[Poiuyt]

5. Except for chicken, which used to taste like chicken

[ThomWV]

7. I used To Like Chicken

Back when it tasted like chicken it was pretty good. I used to like it. Come to think of it I used to like hamburgers when they used to have some taste too.

[Karenina]

22. Back in the day

you actually had to CHEW it! ;-)

[BOSSHOG]

6. Alligator really does taste like Chicken

and they eat whatever can't get away from them; nutria, small dogs, the occasional drunk fisherman. Its a tough chew but it definitely has a chicken taste to it. If you are ever in New Orleans swing by Coops on Decatur, they do Alligator right.

[Jonathan50]

17. I had alligator etouffee down in some little dive near Delacroix.

When I worked in the oilfield back in '82 or '83.

Had nutria when I worked on a barge out in the marsh.

Nutria are so big you can pick them up on the radar.. No kidding.

[BOSSHOG]

19. Nutria are monsters

I think they might be a staple in the alligator diet. A few years back New Orleans had a contest to see if any chefs could come up with recipes for Nutria to reduce their population but the plan didn't go over too well. I believe the bounty on them now is a dollar a tail.

[kiahzero]

8. If beef tastes like chicken to you, you need to see a doctor.

You may have some sort of serious illness that's affecting your tastebuds.

[ThomWV]

11. Both Are Equally Tasteless

You'd know if you'd ever had the chance to eat a chicken that had ate bugs or a cow that had ate grass.

[kiahzero]

16. "Who are you going to trust, me or your lying eyes?"

I taste plenty of differences, thank you.

[Warpy]

28. Free range chicken is very different

and doesn't have that weird "off" flavor that pen raised chickens have.

You can't cut it with the side of a fork, either.

[BOSSHOG]

12. My brother in law had a head injury

falling off a ladder. He is okay now but he lost his sense of taste. However, it did not effect his appetite.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

9. There is a company that advertises on CNN that tells you what a great job they

do working with feed for pigs and why pork tastes so great because of it. They use footage of down home barbecue festivals as their backdrop. I find it very scary. Can't remember the name of the corporation but I believe it begins with a C.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

18. Cargill.

n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

20. Thank you! I knew someone would know! eom

[bbgrunt]

13. frog legs taste like chicken

[yella_dawg]

14. Speaking as one knowledgable about feeding livestock

you're dead right.

I can't eat store-bought meat without complaining, and I won't eat store-bought chicken.

Oh, yeah. "Ground up shit" is literal truth.

Enjoy your dinner.

[sutz12]

15. It's a plot by the makers of A-1 Steak Sauce et al.

You have to flavor that shit before you can eat it. :)

[gravity]

25. lol

I only use A1 steak sauce when someone doesn't know how to cook a good steak.

[gravity]

26. dupe

[MadHound]

21. So, whatcha going to do about it?

Rather than meekly accepting whatever is laid about before you at the local grocery, take control of your own food. Start buying your food at your local farmer's market. Most have at least one person there who raises organic beef, chicken, and/or pork. If you can't find any or all of these at the local farmers market, try checking out some local CSAs. Or if worse comes to worse, check out the classifieds or take a tour of the rural countryside surrounding your city. With summer coming up, lots of little roadside stands will be opening up offering produce, eggs, and other goods. Stop, talk and buy from these people. Not only is the food generally superior to what you find in the grocers, but they can also point you in the direction of some local farmer who raises organic livestock. Contact this person, and arrange to buy some meat. Generally it will be sold to you in bulk, quarters, halves and wholes for beef, halves and wholes for hogs, and whole chickens, usually a dozen at a time. You will be paying for the meat and the butchering(and yes, you will have to get acquainted with various cuts on hogs and cattle), but still, your price overall will be cheaper than what you pay for in the store, and the meat will be tastier and better for you. Oh, and you will have to have a seperate freezer to store 100-300 pounds of meat in, depending on how much you buy.

If you continue to meekly accept whatever the grocers put out for you, then you will continue to get crap. Go out, take control of your food, and actively participate in your diet. Not only will the food be better for you, it will also taste better and you'll be helping out your local small farmers, who need all the help they can get. Oh, and you will be helping a little bit on the enviroment by not purchasing meat that has been trucked cross country to your grocer.

[Karenina]

24. Not just crap. POISON. n/t