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I thought Japanese genes went over the Japanese tighty whiteys.....

Mmm...chicken feet! Americans don't know what they're missing!

That's back when I used to eat meat, of course.

Who says Americans don't eat chicken feet?

That's what my wife always says..."Americans this and Americans that"

and, she's usually wrong......

People eat some weird stuff. I don't like to eat anything that looks like it ever came from an animal. Except for seafood. I love seafood.

Bones, blood, organ meat, tendons, heads, tongues, eyeballs, skin, are all disgusting to me. Especially no chicken feet.

But people all over the world eat these things. Just not me.

No bugs either. I am not eating bugs (on purpose).

I want to try this. I was in the wrong part of China to get 'bug on a stick'.

Bugs are one of my irrational fears. I know, there are many odd things to eat in China. I will not be eating any of those things. I like unusual flavors, but not unusual animal body parts. Yucky

"I gotcher 'unusual body part' rightchere," he said pointing to.....

the third arm coming out of his forehead.....

Ok, seriously, I want to try them because I like crunchy things. Don't really like a lot of mushy things. My wife thinks I won't eat fish because I don't like it the way she does. She likes fish soups and mushy fish. I like mine baked, fried or cooked in a way that it's firm.

As for fears of things like bugs, well, you're in the majority LOL

BTW, mouse is really good to eat.

No mice either. Mice are cute. I would eat a snake though, probably.

Bugs are probably bitter even though crunchy. And you'd be eating their little bug legs and brains and mandibles and bug organs and wings.

We do have a digestive enzyme called chitinase that allows us to digest things such as bugs and mushrooms, which contain chitin. Random useless fact.

I grew up eating squirrel and that's nothing but a rat with a fuzzy tail and a good reputation.
Depends on the bugs involved. I've heard everything from 'popcorn' to meaty'. Never bitter though. Could very well be depending on the bug and preparations.

I like squirrels. They are smart. Wouldn't eat one.

Although I'd probably go vegetarian if I could, I do eat meat. I actually feel it's unethical for me to do so based on my beliefs.

<--- Mentioned the bit about chicken feet because he's been to supermarkets from NY to LA to Nashville to Rhode Island to Seattle and never saw chicken feet for sale except in Asian markets.

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-people-e ... -countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_feet

Ain't been far enough apparently LOL And only the big cities?

I grew up a lot in the south, many states. They are not in most markets like A&P, Winn Dixie and such. They are in specialty markets in many areas and only openly available in small cultural areas. Creole country and all through there they eat that sort of stuff. A lot of it comes from other cultures where there is no wasting of an animal. If it could be consumed, it would be one way or another. Like they say down south, "We eat everything but the oink" when discussing eating animals. And they eat a lot of the same things Asians do too. Organs, feet, collagen, Marrow, etc. My family in Jacksonville used to feed us all sorts of strange things. Heart, lungs, heads, almost all other organs, etc.

I have no qualms about eating other things. Something has to die to nurture another. Plants and animals all must consume something. Plants consume non plants and vice versa.

Edit: I forgot about the live markets you will find that will give you the whole animal like whole birds and such. They are killed and prepped, but it's the whole bird.

I like science and reason, especially when they're not on my side. I like treating science as science, not as religion.

I like sticking to agreed-upon rules, rather than constantly fighting, more subtly or more overtly, to bend them in my favor and to prevent others from doing likewise.

"...almost no one in this country wants chicken feet."
http://www.plansandsolutions.com/chicke ... or-libero/
from Plans & Solutions, Gaithersburg, MD

"...all those [chicken] feet were considered excess parts that were mostly ground into pet food."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as ... story.html
from the Washington Post

"We Chinese like to eat innards, feet or wings, while American consumers find those things unappetizing and like to eat breasts -- Chinese find the breast too bland."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... rd-flu-ban
from Bloomberg

"The American food culture, me included, seems to have forgotten our long-standing relationship with the lowly chicken feet."
http://onegirlsrant.com/chicken-feet/
from One Girl's Rant

"And why on earth Americans wasted these wonderful morsels is beyond me. We'll eat fast food but we won't simmer chicken feet for stock?"
http://theelliotthomestead.com/2015/01/chicken-feet/
from The Elliott Homestead, North Central Washington

"Yes, chicken feet in China -- a poultry appendage that has seemingly no value here in the U.S. but is in demand in China..."
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi ... na/250242/
from The Atlantic

"Yes, chicken feet. That's not exactly a part of the bird most Americans fight over at the dinner table."
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/busine ... -1.1212278
from The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA

3 people - "In terms of demand in Springfield, MO [pop. 160,000] for chicken feet, that's about it."
"Some people like it," said Lu Piapis, a manager of Mr. Yen's, "But not American people."
http://www.semissourian.com/story/135690.html
from the Southeast Missourian

"Chicken feet are delicacies for Chinese people, but Westerners might only eat them if they were starving to death."
http://www.visiontimes.com/2014/01/26/c ... s-gag.html
from Vision Times

"Chicken feet, long considered a waste product in the US, have become a profit center for the high-volume low-profit US chicken industry in the China export market."
http://livingeconomics.org/article.asp?docId=444
from Living Economics

<---Knows very well that some Americans do eat chicken feet. Knows he can't be the only one. But keeping in line with the lighthearted, non-scientific, generalizing spirit of this thread, he's sure if they were giving out frozen chicken feet at the food bank here, probably most people wouldn't touch 'em.

I put the in the same gustatory category as pig's feet.