1. Serve roasted Cornish game hens.
2. Sit next to your laptop, which is ON.
3. Ask, almost rhetorically, as you suck on a drumstick, what a Cornish game hen really IS. Ask, OUT LOUD. Ask, to your spouse, the internet junkie, sitting next to you.
4. (OK, it’s 4 steps actually. Sue me. “3″ sounds better.) Google “cornish game hen” and learn here how they are merely baby chickens. Yup, 5-6 weeks old. Nothing wild or gamey about ‘em.
5. Optional, but not advised, step: input “cornish game hens” on google images. See baby chickens, while you push your plate away. Ask why, why does everyone talk about veal, but no one warned you about Cornish game hens…
Tune in next week, when the hubs serves lamb….
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Eew. Luckily I have a phobia from my childhood of eating meat off of bones so I avoid the little birdies but now I’m kind of glad that I do.
nooooo!
I had no idea that’s what they were!!! horrifying, seriously.
I didn’t realize that.
I actually stopped eating meat the day I had lamb and flashed back to wtching the lambs running in a field near my house earlier that morning. It was the kcik I needed!
Like Kristen, I have issues with eating any meat off a bone. Just one more reason I’m happy I do.
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Wow! I was going to make some snarky comment, but now I can’t remember what it was because I became so engrossed in your other comments. I have always been MOCKED for my aversion to eating meat off the bone. I thought I was a weird-o . . . the cast-off that evolution forgot. I’m so thrilled to know that I’m not alone in my disgust of meat that still contains connective tissue. Blech!
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Oh man, I didn’t know that.
Good thing I don’t like chicken anyway…
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Look at all you “boneless” meat-eaters! Fascinating! I wonder if you are a representative sample of the U.S.??
And what about ribs?
And then there’s always capon……
Capon?! I just googled that now. Castrated, plump roosters?!
I can’t handle the Truth!
Cornish game hens are a breed of poultry, not actually “chickens” as you imagine they are. They are much bulkier and meatier than a traditional chicken, which is why they are butchered a couple of weeks earlier.
You do realize, don’t you, that chickens and ducks are butchered at 6 to 8 weeks old? Turkeys are butchered at 8 to 10 weeks old. Cows are butchered at 2 years old. Hogs are butchered when they are under a year old.
All the animals you eat are “babies.” They aren’t adults. The adults are kept around to make more babies so we can eat ‘em.
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Now I will never be able to eat Cornish Game Hens no matter how quaint and sophisticated the name sounds.
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As a kid, I loved knawing (sp?) a fried pork chop right down to the bone.
I also liked potted meat sandwiches until I looked up the word “beef tripe” in the dictionary.
jenn, this just proves, ignorance is bliss.
kerrie, i’m feeling that, too!
ame, yay! one vote for the bone-in eaters! i knew there had to be at least one out there! as for potted meat, yeah, uh, ummmm……
OK for some reason my comments are disappearing into the vastness of the internet. I love your blog and look forward to reading more
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