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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Are Chicken Feet Healthy to Eat?



Are Chicken Legs Healthy to Eat?

Most people use the term “chicken legs” interchangeably with “chicken drumsticks”.  The obvious example is eating buffalo wings, drum stick style.
And this post avoids the usual debate about white meat vs dark meat when it comes to chicken.
This post is about the real thing, like chicken legs with feet on the end of them.
Anybody can probably prepare, cook, and eat drumsticks be they from chickens or frogs or rabbits, for examples. Just use the conventional food safety ideas about temperatures.
Nope, I just want to know how to cook and eat chicken legs with feet on the end of them.  Since I have seen them offered in grocery stores in rural South Carolina, I know people eat them or something like that. And being from rural Tennessee, even I know people still eat scrambled eggs and pig’s brains.  And that is not a delicacy, but more like a staple at breakfast, even with the fear of prions and mad cow disease.
So back to chicken legs with feet on the end of them.  First when one does an Internet search try using the term “chicken feet”, and it turns out a lot more people than those in rural South Carolina, USA, eat chicken feet:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_feet
And here are some recipes (there are many out there):

What’s next, rat tails. I always thought my father (born 1917 in the USA) was making it up, but now I am not so sure anymore.

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