Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[12BitSlab]

I don't think there's a restaurant in the UK or the USA that could legally list city chicken on it's menu. Therefore all city chicken would be "homemade" by default.

S.E. Asian countries are obviously exempted from the above.
Of course, all stated in the belief that "city chicken" means the same to you as it does to me!

I presume we would all be in agreement that the tails make convenient carry handles, but beyond that, they allow for pan frying without need of a spatula!
Bonus win!!!

One used to be able to buy prepared city chicken. The only thing that the customer had to do was cook it.

When I was young, we didn’t have much and my mother made almost everything from scratch.

 

[beans-on-toast]

A nearby speciality butcher sells a lot of meats such as farmed organic deer, bison, boar, ostrich, etc. Out west relatives like bear. Normal higher end stuff. Many different birds. Pigeon is a favorite of Italians.

When people say city chicken, I associate it with squirrel and pigeon.

 

[beans-on-toast]

One used to be able to buy prepared city chicken. The only thing that the customer had to do was cook it.

When I was young, we didn’t have much and my mother made almost everything from scratch.

But with what? Or shouldn’t I ask.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Probably best not to inquire too closely.

 

[12BitSlab]

But with what? Or shouldn’t I ask.

I believe she used pork.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

We live in a small town. We used to have strays half a dozen times a year. I work for the City and know the animal control officer and he said it's very unusual that we don't have any strays in town. Wondering if the strays are on someone's menu....

 

[beans-on-toast]

Pork pie is a favored dish going way back. They had one in Great Expectations.

 

[beans-on-toast]

We live in a small town. We used to have strays half a dozen times a year. I work for the City and know the animal control officer and he said it's very unusual that we don't have any strays in town. Wondering if the strays are on someone's menu....

Do bears count as strays?

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Do bears count as strays?

They don't take to leashes very well..............

 

[GwenOnBass]

We live in a small town. We used to have strays half a dozen times a year. I work for the City and know the animal control officer and he said it's very unusual that we don't have any strays in town. Wondering if the strays are on someone's menu....

Or maybe headed to the hills to avoid human contact?

Pork pie is a favored dish going way back. They even had one in Great Expectations.

Simple Simon was a pieman. His pies? Once tasted, never forgotten

 

[2tonic]

OK, obviously cultural differences are skewing the definition of "city chicken".
Where I was raised it means rat.
Edible, plentiful, not particularly tasty regardless of recipe, and nothing like chicken.

Squirrel was considered a delicacy, hunted after intentionally, and would never be demeaned or slurred with a derogatory nomenclature such as "city chicken". Bits were braised, barbecued or put in stews.
I apologize if I created confusion.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I understood rat as "roof rabbit".

 

[beans-on-toast]

In Vietnam there is rat pie. Crispy tails would poke through the crust. But there are many places where locals eat anything that walks or crawls.

People that eat squirrel consider brains a big treat.

Last summer I started feeding a couple that would come to see me every morning in the forest for a treat. Word got out and now over a dozen come running every morning. They fight with one another for peanuts. I couldn’t cut them off during the winter, but come the spring they’ll be on their own again.

The birds come for sunflower seeds. That’s really why I’m there every morning. The squirrels want those as well. They even climb small trees to chase the birds off. Birds mostly take the seeds away. They are picky though. When I see the shells spread all around, I know that the squirrels got them. I had to start leaving the sunflower seeds somewhere else.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Give away treats to a couple, pretty soon there's four and twenty asking for more.

 

[StereoPlayer]

My mother used to make City Chicken Legs.
A Michigan superstore, Meijers, sells them at the meat counter, they are close, but not moms.
This is a reasonable facsimile of them.

Mock Chicken Legs

 

[Bobhmcs]

In the late 70's early 80's(the great migration from SE Asia) the CDC and WHO published a survey that the stray dog and cat populations had dropped 40 to 45 per cent in North America. That is significant because a drop like that hadn't occurred since the worst days of the depression.
I was going to be a history teacher before I received my notice.
Bob

 

[G-Dog]

The manky bits are premium menu items in some Chinese restaurants where I've been seen to dine. That does not leave other regional cuisines off the hook.

Not dog I hope.

You and me, both!
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Nope, no dog. ... .... Horse is marked clearly on European menus, as there's an upcharge. Never had horse. Not interested, horses are friends.

Us dogs are best friends.
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We live in a small town. We used to have strays half a dozen times a year. I work for the City and know the animal control officer and he said it's very unusual that we don't have any strays in town. Wondering if the strays are on someone's menu....

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! Shocked and appalled.
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[GwenOnBass]

Dogs are best friends

well most of them. I knew this idiot Siberian Husky .... not his fault, really. Idiot owner. But sometimes owner and dog are from the same cut of manky bits.

 

[G-Dog]

Dogs are best friends

well most of them. I knew this idiot Siberian Husky .... not his fault, really. Idiot owner. But sometimes owner and dog are from the same cut of manky bits.

Some of my best 4 legged friends just smille and say, "Yeah, he's an idiot. But he's my idiot. I do the best I can with him." I smile back, "Yeppers, be there ...".
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[GonePlaid]

Dogs are best friends

well most of them. I knew this idiot Siberian Husky .... not his fault, really. Idiot owner. But sometimes owner and dog are from the same cut of manky bits.

My 'bitter half' had a very large(95#,not fat)Irish Setter. They're known for being dumb. He was as dumb as you'd let him be. Otherwise, pretty smart.