I hate chicken breast. I really do. I hate everything about it: its taste (or lack thereof), its texture, and what it says about the American palate, which is that we consider nature's culinary cardboard to be good eats. Nothing ticks me off more than hearing some moron go, "Ummmm, chicken breast". What are you "ummmm'ing about" you jackarse? Ummmmm....dry, flavorless meat....yummy.
We Americans could learn a thing or two from the rest of the World when it comes to figuring out what counts as good food. While we consider the chicken breast to be the zenith of gastronomical options, our counterparts in every other continent eschews such blandness and prefer to create meals from more adventurous parts of the animal including the lung, heart, stomach lining, feet, cheek, basically all the pieces that we either throw away or stick in a hot dog (that's right, what do you think are in those Ball Parks you're eating?).
That's why we were glad to read on forbestraveler.com that more restaurants, including finer establishments, are offering dishes that incorporate some of the tastier tidbits. For example, the Tasting Room in New York offers the $23 Old MacDonald burger, whose patty is made of cow's heart, liver, bone marrow, tongue, flatiron, brisket, shank and clod. It is then topped with raw cow's milk cheese and mushroom ketchup. That, my fellow luxers, is a tasty burger.
On a side note, below is a video clip of me at the Hash House A Go Go in Las Vegas when I was told that they couldn't serve me dark meat fried chicken because all they had was chicken breast.
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