No Country For White Chicken

[DigitalDrifter]

There isn't much of a market for exporting white chicken, because Americans pretty much eat it all up themselves. We love the white.
Dark chicken however is a different matter, there's plenty of places to dump the darkees, although the big exporting to Russia market is drying up. Could be because there are fewer and fewer straight dark chickens. The gay is simply not welcome in Russia, in fact Barnyard Riot, the equality punk band, along with Foghorn Leghorn have been imprisoned by Putin's goon squad.



The Dark Side of the Bird

For years we've exported dark chicken meat to Russia—but that market is drying up.

There's no question that Americans overwhelmingly prefer white chicken meat to dark. We eat chicken almost 10 times a month on average—according to data from 2007— but on less than two of those occasions do we choose chicken legs, thighs, or drumsticks. At the household level, this isn't problematic; families can buy prepackaged white meat instead of whole birds. But magnify this preference millions of times over on a national scale, and the imbalance could, theoretically, lead to canyons of perfectly edible chicken going to waste.

Historically, Russia has helped keep this hypothetical from becoming a reality. Through a miracle of yin-and-yang cultural predilections, Russians actually*likegamier dark meat. And since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, they have imported it in stunningly large quantities. In 2009 alone Russia doled out $800 million for 1.6 billion pounds of U.S. leg quarters.

Recently, however, the Russian appetite for our chicken legs has waned. Last January, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin barred U.S. chicken from Russian shores, supposedly because it's treated with "unsafe" antimicrobial chlorine. Although Russia subsequently lifted that ban, in November it prohibited the use of frozen poultry in processed products (again citing safety concerns), effectively preventing the use of American chicken in Russian nuggets—since it's shipped frozen. There's no scientific evidence that chlorination, much less freezing, poses any danger to health, so it's doubtful that safety is the real impetus for the bans. It's far more likely that Putin simply wants Russia to become less reliant on imports. (In fact, he's said publicly that he intends for Russia to be fully self-sufficient in chicken production by 2012.) Assuming Putin gets his way, American poultry companies will have to rely on alternative outlets for its dark meat.

More chickenshit: Americans overwhelmingly prefer white chicken meat. What happens to the dark parts?

 

[aaronleland]

Send all the darkies elsewhere. We don't need them here.

Are we still talking about chicken?

 

[FJO]

Different strokes for different folks, but as far as I am concerned, you can have your chicken breast, and give me the wings, thighs and drumsticks.

I am a leg man.

Which reminds me:

Two mice are scurrying around in a bar and stop under a bar stool occupied by a luscious, well-endowed blonde.

One mouse says to the other: "Wow, look at those legs!!!"
The other one replies: Don't care, I am a titmouse, myself".

Sorry.

 

[R.C. Christian]

I can't stand the smell of poultry.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I can't stand the smell of poultry.

Even if it's white ?

 

[Rockland]

There's a "CHILDREN" sign at the end of my street. At one point, it was altered to read "KENTUCKY FRIED CHILDREN 1 MILE". Wish I'd gotten a picture of it.

 

[namvet]

I can't stand the smell of poultry.

do us a favor

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I can't stand the smell of poultry.

do us a favor

 

[DigitalDrifter]

It's time to bring the white chicken back !