MMmmm, Chicken

[netmouse]

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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Re: Oyster?

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

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.