8433 Bottoms up!

I decided I wanted to cook a roast chicken and had a look for one in the supermarket. All they had to offer were miserable specimens not much bigger than a pigeon. No freezers full of frozen chickens here like in the UK.

So I went to the butchers and all they had were half chickens, and when I say half I do not mean left and right, I mean only the back half, they sort of look like what you see of a duck when it has its head under water.

I did eventually find a nice fresh chicken at another butchers although I did have to ask for the head to be removed!

Anyway the question is, why do they sell a**e end of chicken? Is there a special Italian dish that requires just the back end?

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Food & Drink

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 05:32

Yeah, its called Pollo di Culoiatore.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 08:08

The best joke is when you buy the skinny chicken and roast it (and roast it) and its still not cooked, and then the light dawns that it is a boiling fowl, hands up, I expect that alot of us have been caught out.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 08:26

Yup I have been horrified at these chookie birds in Conad and thought where's M and S "not just chicken but free range organic corn fed, omega 3 and 9, oakham" ones when you need it

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 09:36

[quote=Gabbi;78961]Yeah, its called Pollo di Culoiatore.[/quote]

Is that the sort of opposite to star gazy pie?:laughs::laughs:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 13:40

We struggled when we first got here to find decent roasting chickens. None of the big supermarkets had anything other than skinny things. Then we discovered the butchers concessions at the back of the Super Brio (may be local to Puglia, not sure) small town supermarkets ..... fantastico. We get plump roasters anything from 2 and half to 3 and half kilos and they are really good.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 03:53

You are right. Most chickens are so small we have nicknamed them "colombinas".