Tastes like chicken

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"Tastes like chicken" is a comical, all-purpose phrase to describe the taste of unique food. The phrase derives its humour from the fact that many exotic meats, such as frog legs, squab, and alligator, are often described as tasting like ordinary chicken.

[edit] Connections in popular culture

  • Survivor, island rats
  • Timon and Pumbaa, bugs
  • The Matrix, in which Mouse, one of the free humans, suggests that the machines of Zero One, which feed the captive humans, inadvertently make everything taste of chicken as the machines themselves are unable to differentiate between flavours.
  • Stargate, in which the flesh of a reptilian alien animal is described as tasting like chicken. In its spin-off TV show Stargate SG-1, the Goa'uld glutton Nerus is apparently impressed by the taste of chicken and finds it exotic, turning the convention on its head ("Beachhead").
  • Shark Tale, tastes like chicken (Lenny, the vegetarian shark, pretending to be eating some fish)

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