Why do people keep Heads & Legs

[Attack Chicken]

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I stayed with an older couple in France for a few weeks, when i was just out of high school. The wife would prepare the husband's soup with the feet in it. He would eat them sort of like a small corn cob. He also would crack the skull with his spoon and drink the brain.

Ok that goes to far LOL

 

[Tdub4chiks]

That's really gross. lol. What else do people do with the head? I'm not quite sure what "head cheese" is, but that sounds pretty gross too.

 

[Clay Valley Farmer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese

It really is better than it sound/looks. FIL use to make it with pork hocks and chicken parts rather than a whole head from live stock but worked out the same. The geletin in the connective bits is what makes it what it is.

 

[adkchickmama]

chicken brains, feet broth, head cheese... Oh My!

 

[Tdub4chiks]

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Thanks for this info. After reading it all, I can honestly say, "I'm not hungry anymore". lol

No really, it probably is good, but I doubt I will ever find out. Blah

 

[Clay Valley Farmer]

LOL, but you will never know if you don't try.

Actually I suspect you eat a lot more of it than you would wish to think... all sorts of products have gelatin in them which is made from boiling down the ods and ends that we don't generally eat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin

 

[Tdub4chiks]

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Thanks CVF - I would rather not know...lol. But, I don't think I will try anytime soon.

But, OTH, someone said that frog legs taste like chicken....and they did. I can't believe I actually tried them. Goes to show you that you never know - just as you said. lol

 

[Baymule]

All this gross stuff..........anybody out there ever eat lunchmeat? or weiners? or sausage? I guarentee you, You have eaten a whole lot grosser stuff than chicken feet and heads. LOL

 

[Mervin]

Americans, myself included, seem to be pretty wasteful in regards to what parts of an animal get eaten. I think it has a lot to do with the "speed" of our culture. There's a lot of time and patience that goes into making something palatable out of the sinewy pieces on an animal. In my area less coveted pig parts still get made into cracklins, souse, scrapple and so on. You usually don't have to fight for a place in line to get it anymore though. I thought about doing something with the feet off the rooster I recently butchered, but I figured wife and kids might pass out.

 

[ssbs]

I have eaten chicken feet before, they were pretty good. I cooked them like general tso chicken.

But, my friends butcher chickens quite often, I keep the heads and feet for my ferrets. They love them.. And the feet are also good for my arthritic beagle