It tastes like chicken

When someone cannot find the words or have the means to explain the taste of some exotic food to the listener, new to their diner or it is simply different; especially meats; after a brief, useless and stammering apology, he ends up saying "it tastes like chicken", which is really disappointing, especially when it comes from someone who perhaps traveled to other latitudes and after a long journey managed to eat, for example, pheasant, to That his answer to the question about the taste of such an exotic bird is "chicken" is disappointing. The reason is perhaps an absolute inability to taste foods other than the daily diet, or laziness to compare it, or the cunning to mention something known throughout the world, especially fried; so maybe and just maybe; the answer given by that traveler is the product of fatigue or practical demonstration of simple disability to describe the experience.

This situation occurs so frequently that it goes unnoticed, so much so that many have surely invoked it as a solution to the description of the roasted alligator, the boa, the rabbit in sauce or a delicious cui. This description has also been assigned to frog legs and the howler monkey (a delicacy described by Male Humboldt on his trip to the New World with words that have nothing to do with chicken). The same is the expression used when the mother-in-law is He feeds a secret ingredient and no one wants to tell him that the reptile doesn't taste like chicken, when it clearly tastes like an iguana.

Some connoisseurs of the kitchen affirm that the meat that most resembles it in texture, color and flavor is that of false crab or surimi, which is nothing more than fish paste (any that is available) bleached and deodorized. Among the most experts, the meat that most resembles chicken is the nugget, but it is an urban legend that deserves confirmation. The truth is, without a doubt, that the meats that have the most chicken flavor are the legs, liver and tripe of this world-famous bird. By the way, many of the foods described with these words are basically tasteless, like snails, which taste like whatever seasoning you put on them, be it garlic, cumin, a good curry or simply grilled. But they don't taste like chicken. That is final.

Regarding the origin of the phrase, a well-known television series and its writers explain it by saying that the Almighty invited his family, friends and acquaintances to a dinner; all the biblical characters were sitting there, good men of the present and past, even a couple of wicked ones. including the unnameable one who, as expected, started a discussion about what was the main dish where everyone expressed their opinions. He finally arrives on a silver tray to be discovered in front of everyone, who are amazed to see that it is roast chicken. Everyone begins to laugh when they realize that this is the host's favorite dish, hence, that every delicacy in heaven tastes like chicken.