Tastes Like Chicken Too
"The field of culinary evolution faces one great dilemma: why do most
cooked, exotic meats taste like cooked Gallus gallus, the domestic
chicken?"
Once the castaway contestants on CBS’s "Survivor" had their first rat
skinned and sizzling over the fire, everyone knew what would come next.
Tastes like chicken, they reported.
"Kentucky
Fried Chicken decided to change their name to KFC in 1991 for several
reasons, none of which had anything to do with governmental regulations
about mutant animals…"
I wonder why it is when we are trying to describe the taste of
something unfamiliar or even exotic, that more often than not the taste
is described as “a lot like chicken”? As a result of my East Texas
oilfield trash and Cajun heritage plus my many travels, there aren’t
very many things I haven’t eaten or at least sampled, especially if
it’s meat.
"…and I am not a great fan either although I am one of the many who has
had snake soup and also thought it tasted like shredded chicken."