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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums46 year old chicken feet sold. And people ate them. Coming to a store near you in the US!
46 year old chicken feet is a bad story, but news that in the country that brought us melamine milk can now process chicken without needing to specify that they were processed there is worse.link:http://chickens will be allowed to be processed
I'm uncertain whether I'm more horrified that 46 year old chicken feet were sold, or that there is a population with such a demand that they ate chicken feet at all.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)there were 16 children and they were very happy when they got chicken feet for dinner...it was probably the first "meat" they had in a while. Sharecropping...that is what happens when you let the Republican get their way and eliminate workers unions...
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)46 year old chicken feet?
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)they even consider male genitals of animals a delicacy.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)the mascot is a stuffed turkey with his wings crossed to cover his genitals...
Aerows
(39,961 posts)OMG. That sounds like fun, actually!
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Warpy
(111,277 posts)so yes, there's a huge demand. You can also find them in the type of restaurants here where you are probably the only white face in the place, there is no metal tableware (only chopsticks so if you don't want to starve, learn to use 'em fast), and you often have to point to what you want.
The Imperial Tea Room in Boston serves a dim sum lunch and they used to be just like that. They also served steamed chicken and duck feet. I passed, I knew I didn't like the texture and didn't want to waste them when so many other people were enjoying them. I ate everything else, though.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I don't know many that can say they have eaten snake, alligator, and squirrel, but I can. The whole chicken foot thing eludes me. I like steak on the side of running away from the table, but a chicken foot that is 46 years old? Holy hell.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)They might have strange tastes in food but they're not suicidal.
Try frog legs, rattlesnake and grasshopper if you can. They're all good fried. Just pick the legs and wings off the grasshopper, they're nasty and hang up on your tonsils.
Once climate change totally fouls up the food supply, we might all be living on this stuff.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and ants. I'm pretty adventurous. Chicken feet is probably where I draw the line.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)Mine were chocolate covered. I didn't think the formic acid added too much to the operation so I'll avoid them in future.
As for the chicken and duck feet, I'm really not nuts about that collagen/gelatinous texture. I wouldn't imagine the flavor would be too great. I've only used fresh feet in chicken soup, they give it that Mother Campbell's bright yellow color.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)than frog. Alligator, when fried, is delicious. I'm not a fan of frog, really. It has an odd taste. Alligator is halfway between frog and chicken, and snake is just ... snake. It has it's own characteristics and it's got a sweet element to it.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)I agree that snake is better.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)They make chicken broth wonderful when used as part of the cooking process. They are certainly not almost fifty when sold here though. LOL
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Holy cow. Err.. I call fowl!
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)During the war and survived there frozen for so long. I wonder what the story is there...they must have plenty of cold storage room there.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Chicken feet older than I am. Can't wait to have some of that in the US, and unlabeled at that!
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)They "beefed" them up with hydrogen peroxide to increase their size and make them look whiter and fresher. That's what is so ... ewww about the whole thing.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)who wouldn't want to eat those?
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)I've eaten damn near every edible part of every farm animal raised- my great grandmother used to say that the only part of a pig that we didn't eat was the squeal.
When it came to chickens, my great grandmother was the only one in our family who would eat what she called "the pope's hat", or "the last bit over the fence".
"The Pope's hat" LMAO
MADem
(135,425 posts)Isn't it funny how everyone thought it belonged to the pope, though!
And I first heard the term from a Catholic, too!
Just read this to my husband. We're going to china next month. Can't wait.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Its the only way to "eat" whatever lil meat is there.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Both the feet and the stock are delicious. I order chicken feet when I eat dim sum.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and you have a regulatory agency that makes certain that they aren't decades old, thawed out and plumped up with H2O2 to make it look "healthy" and "fresh".
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)They thawed them out, and "plumped them up" by soaking them in hydrogen peroxide. I understand that we all have different tastes, and I'm about to eat a chicken foot about as soon as I will eat a tree trunk, but these were 46 years old, and they are going to be allowed to process chickens for consumption on the US market. Does that not alarm the shit out of anyone?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)in your link- "In 2012, Jiang Weisuo, 44, the man who first alerted authorities to what would become the melamine-tainted milk scandal was murdered in Xi'an city."
Awful.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Born and raised in the south, I devoured fried chicken whenever I could. I still eat it sometimes now, but I lost the ability to eat it with the skeleton still attached. And hell, I always thought wings were too much trouble, the feet seem like more trouble than they're worth, even if they tasted like Heaven.
And I can't imagine myself eating a 46 year-old anything.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and I've eaten fried fill-in-the-blank. Things that are older than me, no, not interested.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)that allows the processing of US Chicken in China to be re-imported, you will never know. Sounds like a great way to secure our food supply, doesn't it?
Vanje
(9,766 posts)....but I cook with fresh feet.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)that raw chicken can be shipped to China, processed there, and come back here "cooked" and you never know what happened to it or specifically what is in it. I realize that "fresh" has a different meaning, but so does "processed".
xfundy
(5,105 posts)not to mention sheet rock that killed people.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)to process cooked chicken and ship it right back to us now. This looks like TPP Bill as a shadow to how our food supply could get destroyed. You think it is chicken from the US? It's okay, it's 46 year old thighs that have been in cold storage plumped up and made to look and smell okay.
Do you want to feed that to your children, your parents, your spouse or your neighbor?
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)if you knew what went on with soy products.
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)Veggies and beans and such. I make my own veggie burgers and I'm getting further and further away from packaged foods.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I'm a meat eater, but I'm starting to fear processed and packaged foods more than anything. If it isn't cooked by my hands with known ingredients, I'm kind of wary of it.