Recipe calls for "baby chickens"...ish

[deb1]

Although this sounds unusual to my American taste, it doesn't sound nearly as bad as some of the things that Andrew Zimmerman eats on Bizarre Foods. That man must have no taste buds because he thinks that very few things taste bad.

I live in the southeast and you can buy pigs feet pickled in jars here. Now that is yuck!

Not to mention Chitlins. I am not even going to tell you what Chitlins( chitterlings)are!

 

[chickenzoo]

 

[saddina]

I'm pretty sure he means using a cornish game hen sized chicken.

 

[Sitka]

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Yes, Andrew Zimmern is, uh, adventurous. However, I have seen him eat things on the show that totally grossed / freaked him out. Speaking of him, once on his show (when in China) he showed a restaurant where they were preparing baby chickens. And I don't mean Cornish-game-size, I mean day-old size. It took platters of them to even make a serving. I thought, "What a waste." But to each his own...(within reason).

As for Balut....ugh. Double ugh.

 

[agnes_day]

ok now that is gross...i couldnt do it.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Well.. if the recipe does call for actual baby chicks.. then we may have solved our extra rooster packing peanut problem

 

[deb1]

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I wonder if that is how the recipe came about. Think about it, in many parts of the world, hunger was not uncommon. Keeping roosters would have meant feeding the birds food that could have been spent on egg producing hens but wasting the chicks when people are hungry must have seemed crazy.

 

[Camelot Farms]

I have to go throw up...

 

[EweSheep]

If they say baby chickens you can say they meant Cornish hens.

Balut, forget it! I dont think I can stomach that one!

 

[cassie]

I think cornish game hens are about four weeks of age or so. Two to two and a half pounds live, if memory serves. Not that it makes any difference.