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Re: the old canard "tastes like chicken"




On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Dann Pigdon wrote:
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.

Ordered some ostrich from an internet dealer. Tasty, VERY lean firm meat. And very red, kind of a burgundy color. Chewy if not cooked right - was great in a crock pot.

Have had alligator nuggets (just fried chunks), also chewy.

Neither tasted like chicken.