46 year old chicken feet sold. And people ate them. Coming to a store near you in the US!

[Aerows]

46 year old chicken feet is a bad story, but news that in the country that brought us melamine milk can now process chicken without needing to specify that they were processed there is worse.

link:http://chickens will be allowed to be processed

I'm uncertain whether I'm more horrified that 46 year old chicken feet were sold, or that there is a population with such a demand that they ate chicken feet at all.

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. My father grew up eating chicken feet....his family were sharecroppers...

there were 16 children and they were very happy when they got chicken feet for dinner...it was probably the first "meat" they had in a while. Sharecropping...that is what happens when you let the Republican get their way and eliminate workers unions...

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. Yes, I'm sure my parents ate them.

[Aerows]

8. Were they older than him and your mother, too?

46 year old chicken feet?

[Harmony Blue]

2. Different cultures are different

they even consider male genitals of animals a delicacy.

[VanillaRhapsody]

6. In a town in Illinois they have an actual "Turkey Testicle Festival"

the mascot is a stuffed turkey with his wings crossed to cover his genitals...

[Aerows]

9. LMAO

OMG. That sounds like fun, actually!

[VanillaRhapsody]

11. here is a link about it...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/24/turkey-testicle-festival_n_2185026.html

[Warpy]

4. They love that gelatinous stuff in Asia

so yes, there's a huge demand. You can also find them in the type of restaurants here where you are probably the only white face in the place, there is no metal tableware (only chopsticks so if you don't want to starve, learn to use 'em fast), and you often have to point to what you want.

The Imperial Tea Room in Boston serves a dim sum lunch and they used to be just like that. They also served steamed chicken and duck feet. I passed, I knew I didn't like the texture and didn't want to waste them when so many other people were enjoying them. I ate everything else, though.

[Aerows]

10. I'm a damned adventurous diner

I don't know many that can say they have eaten snake, alligator, and squirrel, but I can. The whole chicken foot thing eludes me. I like steak on the side of running away from the table, but a chicken foot that is 46 years old? Holy hell.

[Warpy]

14. It was very likely dried and then reconstituted.

They might have strange tastes in food but they're not suicidal.

Try frog legs, rattlesnake and grasshopper if you can. They're all good fried. Just pick the legs and wings off the grasshopper, they're nasty and hang up on your tonsils.

Once climate change totally fouls up the food supply, we might all be living on this stuff.

[Aerows]

19. I've had frog legs

and ants. I'm pretty adventurous. Chicken feet is probably where I draw the line.

[Warpy]

21. Oh, I forgot about the ants

Mine were chocolate covered. I didn't think the formic acid added too much to the operation so I'll avoid them in future.

As for the chicken and duck feet, I'm really not nuts about that collagen/gelatinous texture. I wouldn't imagine the flavor would be too great. I've only used fresh feet in chicken soup, they give it that Mother Campbell's bright yellow color.

[Aerows]

26. I've eaten snake, I like it far more

than frog. Alligator, when fried, is delicious. I'm not a fan of frog, really. It has an odd taste. Alligator is halfway between frog and chicken, and snake is just ... snake. It has it's own characteristics and it's got a sweet element to it.

[Warpy]

45. I won't go out of my way for frog. Let Froggy keep his legs.

I agree that snake is better.

[Mojorabbit]

16. They are sold in the grocery stores here

They make chicken broth wonderful when used as part of the cooking process. They are certainly not almost fifty when sold here though. LOL

[Aerows]

18. Near half a century old chicken

Holy cow. Err.. I call fowl!

[Niceguy1]

5. wow, those were process in Vietnam

During the war and survived there frozen for so long. I wonder what the story is there...they must have plenty of cold storage room there.

[Aerows]

7. Mmm mmm good

Chicken feet older than I am. Can't wait to have some of that in the US, and unlabeled at that!

[d_r]

15. just saying

[VanillaRhapsody]

13. Maybe they were pickled chicken feet?

[Aerows]

22. No

They "beefed" them up with hydrogen peroxide to increase their size and make them look whiter and fresher. That's what is so ... ewww about the whole thing.

[VanillaRhapsody]

44. Sounds Delicious!

who wouldn't want to eat those?

[X_Digger]

12. The age thing bothers me, but chicken feet doesn't.

I've eaten damn near every edible part of every farm animal raised- my great grandmother used to say that the only part of a pig that we didn't eat was the squeal.

When it came to chickens, my great grandmother was the only one in our family who would eat what she called "the pope's hat", or "the last bit over the fence".

[Aerows]

17. LOL! n/t

"The Pope's hat" LMAO

[MADem]

46. I always heard that bit was called "the pope's nose!"

Isn't it funny how everyone thought it belonged to the pope, though!

And I first heard the term from a Catholic, too!

[LynnTTT]

20. Oh, oh

Just read this to my husband. We're going to china next month. Can't wait.

[Aerows]

23. Make sure you try out the local cuisine :) n/t

[darkangel218]

24. Ive eaten chicken feet in soup.

Its the only way to "eat" whatever lil meat is there.

[Luminous Animal]

25. I grew up eating chicken feet and chicken feet make the best stock ever.

Both the feet and the stock are delicious. I order chicken feet when I eat dim sum.

[Aerows]

30. If they aren't 46 years old

and you have a regulatory agency that makes certain that they aren't decades old, thawed out and plumped up with H2O2 to make it look "healthy" and "fresh".

[RKP5637]

27. To me, gross! n/t

[Aerows]

28. These chicken feet were 46 years old.

They thawed them out, and "plumped them up" by soaking them in hydrogen peroxide. I understand that we all have different tastes, and I'm about to eat a chicken foot about as soon as I will eat a tree trunk, but these were 46 years old, and they are going to be allowed to process chickens for consumption on the US market. Does that not alarm the shit out of anyone?

[Sunlei]

29. did you read what happened to the 'melamine milk" whistle blower?

in your link- "In 2012, Jiang Weisuo, 44, the man who first alerted authorities to what would become the melamine-tainted milk scandal was murdered in Xi'an city."

[Aerows]

31. Exactly

Awful.

[arcane1]

32. Wow, those feet were born the same year as mine! :)

Born and raised in the south, I devoured fried chicken whenever I could. I still eat it sometimes now, but I lost the ability to eat it with the skeleton still attached. And hell, I always thought wings were too much trouble, the feet seem like more trouble than they're worth, even if they tasted like Heaven.

And I can't imagine myself eating a 46 year-old anything.

[Aerows]

33. I'm a southerner

and I've eaten fried fill-in-the-blank. Things that are older than me, no, not interested.

[arcane1]

34. I could probably handle "older than me", but not "died when I was 3 years old"

[Aerows]

39. Well, under the new law

that allows the processing of US Chicken in China to be re-imported, you will never know. Sounds like a great way to secure our food supply, doesn't it?

[Vanje]

35. Chicken feet make the greatest soup broth!

....but I cook with fresh feet.

[Aerows]

38. I have a problem with the new FDA relaxing of requirements

that raw chicken can be shipped to China, processed there, and come back here "cooked" and you never know what happened to it or specifically what is in it. I realize that "fresh" has a different meaning, but so does "processed".

[xfundy]

36. They also had "rice" made out of plastic.

not to mention sheet rock that killed people.

[Aerows]

37. And they have the go ahead

to process cooked chicken and ship it right back to us now. This looks like TPP Bill as a shadow to how our food supply could get destroyed. You think it is chicken from the US? It's okay, it's 46 year old thighs that have been in cold storage plumped up and made to look and smell okay.

Do you want to feed that to your children, your parents, your spouse or your neighbor?

[a la izquierda]

40. Thank god I'm a vegan. Nt

[Aerows]

41. You really wouldn't

if you knew what went on with soy products.

[a la izquierda]

42. I don't eat much soy.

Veggies and beans and such. I make my own veggie burgers and I'm getting further and further away from packaged foods.

[Aerows]

43. Good job, then!

I'm a meat eater, but I'm starting to fear processed and packaged foods more than anything. If it isn't cooked by my hands with known ingredients, I'm kind of wary of it.