On Wed, Sep 16th, 2009 at 11:41 AM, "T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>
wrote:
You've been beaten to the punch:
http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume4/v4i4/chicken.htm
According to their findings, a chicken taste is the ancestral trait
for all tetrapods. I have to question some of their scorings, though
-- I had kangaroo meat recently (although not Dendrolagus, I think)
and it tasted nothing like chicken -- more like venison or calf liver.
Kangaroo has a gamey-taste very unlike chicken, and as you remarked is often
compared to
venison.
[...]
It's often said that crocodile meat tastes like chicken - but that's
mostly due to the fact that farmed crocs have a lot of chicken in their
diet. Apparently crocs that eat mostly fish have a slight fishy taste to
them.