How do you eat chicken feet? Do you just chew them up? Aren't they mostly bone?
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tommyrot - Mar 08, 2007 5:41:29 am PST #5852 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nutty - Mar 08, 2007 5:46:45 am PST #5853 of 10001
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Chicken feet are mostly bone, and you do not eat the bones. You chew on the skin and tendons, and spit the bones out.
I ate them on a dare, at dum sum one day, and while it was not an unpleasant experience (they taste like cooking oil, basically), it was also like, "If I'm not actively starving, why would I go to avian feet, which have very little muscle in them, for my animal-eating experience?"
The best part of the experience was the look on the poor dim sum waiter's face when I said, "Yes, I know they're feet." She didn't want to believe me that I really wanted them. (Like I said, it was a dare.)
Strega - Mar 08, 2007 5:48:56 am PST #5854 of 10001
My impression is that Ethiopian food is somewhat similar to Indian food, and that I wouldn't like it.
How do you eat chicken feet? Do you just chew them up? Aren't they mostly bone?The feet have lots of cartilage, which you can chew. Then you spit out little bits of bone.
Jessica - Mar 08, 2007 5:51:39 am PST #5855 of 10001
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Do you just chew them up? Aren't they mostly bone?
DH loves the chicken feet. I think they're nasty -- not just because they look like feet, but because they're nothing but skin and gristle. You kind of just gnaw on them.
Theodosia - Mar 08, 2007 6:00:24 am PST #5856 of 10001
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I find Ethiopian food to be very strongly spicy but generally not hot-spicy, except the reddish 'wot' sauce which must have hot peppers in it somewhere. But compared to Indian, there's practically no milk products and lots of easily-identifiable beef. It's worth a try, especially as the meals are generally "family style" so that you have a variety of dishes to take a bite each of and decide what you favor. (Mostly they're all delicious, though I can't testify as to the beef ones.)
shrift - Mar 08, 2007 6:01:54 am PST #5857 of 10001
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I'm super non-adventurous when it comes to food.
I'm willing to try just about anything once, although I tend to draw the line at things like feet and brains, or when the thing I'm meant to eat still has its eyeballs.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 08, 2007 6:03:22 am PST #5858 of 10001
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The one time I tried Ethiopian food, I thought the salmon goulash was pretty good, but the injera was like eating a dirty gray sponge.
sarameg - Mar 08, 2007 6:06:08 am PST #5859 of 10001
I kinda don't like my meal looking at me when I'm eating. When I used to get river trout, I'd hide the head and it was ok. And if it is snack sized and not shrimp whole, nu-uh. Just...no.
tommyrot - Mar 08, 2007 6:06:25 am PST #5860 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So I imagine pig's feet actually have meat on them? Still, I'm not sure it's something I could eat.
I'm pretty adventuresome when it comes to food. I once had a job interview where the recruitment people took me out to dinner the night before. I had calamari - they had never heard of it and were impressed. I like to think that's the main reason I got a job offer....
I do generally draw the line at things with eyeballs. And getting stuff like a whole red snapper is just too much work to get the meat off.
Ginger - Mar 08, 2007 6:07:17 am PST #5861 of 10001
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I'm willing to try almost everything, but I'll note that I have yet to order the "cold pig intestines" appetizer at my favorite Szechuan place. Thankfully, they have stopped putting a picture of cold pig intestines on the menu.