The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for May 20, 2014
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Transcript:
Wilberforce: Hey, Mom, what's this stuff you served us?
Gladys: That's called city chicken.
Brutus: I call them UFOs.
Wilberforce: UFOs?
Brutus: Unidentified Frying Objects!
City chicken is usually pork, put on a skewer to vaguely resemble a drumstick. I looked it up once when I saw a package in the store labeled “city chicken” that clearly didn’t contain chicken.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member almost 10 years ago
City Chicken? From City Wok?
quinones.felix almost 10 years ago
In Puerto Rico the invasive species of the iguana has been called, “la gallina de palo” or tree chicken.
Egrayjames almost 10 years ago
When I lived in the south, we called chicken “yard bird”. Makes me think “city chicken” might be pigeon? Road kill was a whole different category!
derdave969 almost 10 years ago
City chicken is chunks (like in – parts is parts) of chicken on an skewer. I don’t recall any specific method of preparation for the “chicken”.
miqq1234 almost 10 years ago
…when you’re really hungry…anything goes
albzort almost 10 years ago
City chicken is usually pork, put on a skewer to vaguely resemble a drumstick. I looked it up once when I saw a package in the store labeled “city chicken” that clearly didn’t contain chicken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_chicken
tstuarta1 almost 10 years ago
I remember hearing about “city chicken” on an episode of Chopped.