Boiled Chicken Feet

When I was but a young lad my Suisse/German Grandmother would make boiled chicken feet and they were so good that there was quite a rush to the platter when they were ready. This usually happened shortly after the big chicken butchering weekend in the fall of the year.

Last week while on my run out to Wal-Mart I noticed for the first time that they (Wal-Mart) are now selling chicken feet in various configurations. Link to chicken feet

How many of you have ever indulged?

I had chicken feet at a Dim Sum place in SF (Golden Dragon IIRC). The little oriental lady was a little shocked to see a non-oriental order them...

You see them in Asian cooking and I’ve eaten them in Jewish cooking. Well waste not want not, but I’m not a big crab fan, and my objection to chicken feet is the same... too much trouble for a bite of meat. Even the upper leg,the drum stick is more gristle and tendon then meat.

The ones I ate had been braised in sauce until everything was tender and just slipped off the bones. The edible portions were little more than the skin and tendons.

Ate them once, that was enough.

Fwiw, I've never been that hungry.

yours, satx

satx78247 said:

Fwiw, I've never been that hungry.

yours, satx

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:applause:

I might be convinced to try chicken feet if the ONLY other choice was MREs, AKA: Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.
(I've eaten some "quite unusual chow" OCONUS to keep from having to eat MREs. ==> CHUCKLE.)

yours, tex

They sell them in the local grocery that caters to the hispanic population, and I have seen them dried for dog treats, but I don't care to try them, or train my dogs to eat chickens.

I hear they have every bit as much meat as chicken lips, though.

satx78247 said:

Fwiw, I've never been that hungry.

yours, satx

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My grandfather use to say, " you would eat the a#* of a skunk if you were hungry enough. "

My wife’s family, also German ancestry, would cook them when butchering chickens. She made them a few times years ago when we farmed and raised chickens. They have lots of gristle and after boiling and peeling she fried them. They were more of a treat than a meal. Somewhat like folks who eat frogs legs.

satx78247 said:

Fwiw, I've never been that hungry.

yours, satx

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More gristle and bone then any thing else, but there just meat.
I like Haggis, sardines, oysters on the half shell, natural caseing on sausage, snails, menudo, Rocky Mountain oysters,chicken fries, the worm in a bottle of tequila, Kim Cher, I’ve tried balute ( pickled chicken hatchlings about a week before busting the shell) fox,dog,woods rat, SOB stew from fresh killed deer.
Meats meat
Some ha meat that ca na eat, some would eat that ha na, but we ha meat and means to eat, so let the lLord be thankeeth.

I might TRY skunk if the only alternative was MREs.= Fwiw, I have eaten dog, horse, donkey, zebra, yagi sashimi, I.e., raw goat, rabbits/hares of several sorts, turtles, puma, bobcat, badger, snake, lizards, gator, beaver, small birds (In South Louisiana = It really does take "- - - - 4 & 20 blackbirds to make into a pie".) & some "creepy-crawlies" OCONUS that I won't share here, lest I make someone ill.

As I've said before, if dining in a 3rd world nation & it tastes good, it is MY RULE #1 to NOT ask what you're eating. - I can assure it won't taste as good coming back up as it did going down.

yours, satx

I'm always amazed at some people's ability to eat anything....No doubt a testament to Neanderthal DNA. They had resistance to many pathogens....I knew a guy who would eat anything....He seemed to like his food spoiled, He would eat out of the trash....When he bought a hamburger from a fast food joint he would let it sit on the counter for 6 hours before eating it....He had a lot of Neanderthal DNA... :haha:

Well for a long time game, especially birds were eaten ”˜on high’.
I have often been told that my deer didn’t have that ”˜wild taste’. I field dress and get the deer skinned and cut up and cooled, canned or frozen as soon as possible.
I think more then one hunter has dropped his deer, got it out of the woods,through it in the pick up, got it marked at a game station, showed his friends, drank some beer, was too tired to work up the meat till the next day, had him some steaks that were well on their way to rotten now and said ”˜don’t you love that wild flavor’

I routinely hang my deer for up to 2 weeks - tender meat and no gamey taste at all.

Dad used rave about frog legs. It wasn't until about 8 years ago that I finally found a restaurant that had them. Actually it was an Asian buffet that had them, but, only on Sundays. I tried them and liked them. I look for them now when we eat there on Sundays.

What usually puts people off is not so much the food itself, rather the idea of the food. So much excellent food out there that people avoid because the idea scares them - Octopus, crabs, insects, Squid, Sushi/Sashimi, testicles, wild game, snails, tripe and jellyfish, just to name few...

Try it before you turn up your nose - you just might be pleasantly surprised. You also get bragging rights and another strange food added to your list. If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it again

I bet it’s clean cooled and hung pretty quick. I was talking more about the Bozos that do little to work up the deer till a day or more has past.
Bozos are thicker then opossum in the ozarks, but I bet they’re not endangered in your country. :wink:

"If its back faces heaven it is food."
(Chinese proverb)