Chicken

Everyone on this planet knows what is chicken. Chicken is a poultry meat that as we discovered more and more ingredients to it, we find ourselves having variety dishes of chicken. From a chicken's whole body, we cut down to parts, the breasts, the drumsticks, wings, head, and feet. Here in America, we usually throw out the head and the feet. We mainly eat the breast, drumsticks, and wings. The chicken wings are the favorite parts to many people because as we all know there are Buffalo wings, hot wings, sweet and sour wings, and Cajun wings. We can make alot of dishes out of chicken like chicken salad, grilled chicken, popcorn chicken, chicken sandwich, fried chicken, orange chicken, chicken soup, teriyaki chicken, chicken curry, and so on. Even pizza nowadays has chicken as topping like barbeque chicken at California's Pizza Kitchen. Therefore, chicken to us is a typical evryday food, and we can get chicken everywhere.

However, there are some quite interesting facts. If we go to a fancy restaurant and order chicken dishes, of course the chicken meal there is going to be more expensive. For example, like chicken alfredo, it is just grilled chicken and pastas. So it depends on the restaurants, the fancy restaurants make chicken sounds good but heavy on the wallet. In contrast, we can buy a whole chicken at a grocery store or a market with lesser price. We tend to think that food like chicken taste better at a fancy restaurant. It may be the outer look of the dish but it is basically just chicken.

Here in America, chicken is like our daily food, nothing special unless there is a secret ingredient to marinate the chicken. Overall, it is just an average type of meat that everyone can afford. Yet, in foreign countries like Vietnam and China, only upper class or middle class income families can eat chickens on a daily basic. Chickens are expensive in Vietnam. Lower class income families only eat chicken on special occasion like on Vietnamese New Year or at a wedding dinner. Since chickens are so expensive there, people eat everything from the inside organs, the head, and the feet. Some think those are the best parts. Chicken, in some foreign countries, ranks social classes of people in a hierarchy. Only rich people can eat chicken everyday, and the poor only eat on special occasions. Another quite interesting fact, in some foreign countries, it is inappropriate for girls who use hands to eat chicken in public, especially the chicken parts like drumstick or wings, because that show no manners. So are you glad that we can eat chicken whenever we want and eat how many as we like in America? Majority of the people love chicken, it is affordable and tasty.