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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2007-04-08 10:36 pm
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MMmmm, Chicken

I bought a whole roasted chicken and ate some of it for my dinner tonight (with green beans and cucumber as sides). I simply adore roasted chicken. One of my favorite things about having a roast to myself is that I get both oysters. When I was a kid we had to share those, as in my family they are considered the choicest part of the bird.

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Oyster?

[identity profile] skzbrust.livejournal.com 2007-04-09 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
This is the first time I've heard that chickens had oysters. Um...what are they?
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[personal profile] metalfatigue 2007-04-09 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
What are they? They're yummy, that's what!

(Wikipedia explains. I hadn't known the name for them until now.)

[identity profile] boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com 2007-04-09 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks - I was going to ask as well. :)
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Re: Oyster?

[identity profile] netmouse.livejournal.com 2007-04-09 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
As the picture in wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Oyster) shows, if you have a roasted chicken turned with the back up, the oysters are on either side, close to the spine, nearer to the wings. They are rather oyster-shaped, sitting in a concavity of bone, and they are tasty and rich.

Being in the boniest part of the chicken, I don't think they are typically included at all if you get a chicken that's already butchered into pieces, such as commercial fried chicken, but I'm not sure.
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