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, rattle snake, and alligator, are often described as tasting like ordinary chicken.
[edit] Connections in popular culture
- Survivor, island rats
- Avatar: The Last Airbender, Episode 4 of season two, the indegionous people say taste like "possum-chicken", all animals being crossbred in some way.
- 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"). Also, in an earlier episode, Daniel Jackson remarks his suspicion that Macaroni and Cheese rations taste like chicken.
- Shark Tale, tastes like chicken (Lenny, the vegetarian shark, pretending to be eating some fish)
- Groundhog Day, Rita asks (of Phil) "are you going to the Groundhog Dinner?" to which Phil replies "No, I had groundhog for lunch...tasted like chicken."
- Eddie Izzard, in his album, Dress to Kill, a running gag is that several items, including 'babies on spikes' taste of chicken.
- In one episode of Babylon 5, Michael Garibaldi commented that Narn taste like chicken.
- Babylon 5, episode A View from the Gallery, Mack said flatly that Spoo doesn't taste like chicken.
- In the video game Chrono Trigger, there is a sequence in which the player, as Crono, can steal food from a beggar during the Millenia Fair. If the player steals the food, the game notes, "Yum! Tastes like chicken!"
