Tag: Chicken

The QSR 50 Chicken Segment category rank qsr 50 rank company 1 3 Chick-fil-A 2 13 KFC 3 19 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 4 25 Zaxby’s Which company sells the most chicken? The QSR 50 Chicken Segment Category Rank Company 2016 U.S. Systemwide Sales (millions) 1 Chick-fil-A 7,973.50 2 KFC 4,483.30 3 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen* 3,140.30 […]

Chickens arrived in the Middle East starting with Iran at 3900 BCE, followed by Turkey and Syria (2400–2000 BCE) and into Jordan by 1200 BCE. The earliest firm evidence for chickens in east Africa are illustrations from several sites in New Kingdom Egypt (1550–1069). When did chickens arrive in Egypt? around 1750 B.C.The ancient chicken […]

The ancient chicken was introduced in Egypt around 1750 B.C. but it wasn’t until 1,000 years later that the Egyptians began to use them for more than entertainment and tomb decorations. Did chickens exist in Egypt? Chickens arrived in Egypt some 250 years later, as fighting birds and additions to exotic menageries. Artistic depictions of […]

Chickens labeled as “Broiler-fryers” are young, tender chicken about 7 weeks old; “Roasters” are older chicken, about 3 to 5 months old; “Capons” are male chickens about 16 weeks to 8 months old; and “Stewing/Baking Hens” are mature laying hens 10 months to 1 1/2 years old. At what age are chickens sold for meat? […]

CONSUMER UNION EVALUATION: Free range (or free roaming) is a general claim that implies that a meat or poultry product, including eggs, comes from an animal that was raised in the open air or was free to roam. Its use on beef is unregulated and there is no standard definition of this term. Is it […]

Estimates of the time of their domestication are from 7,000 to 10,000 years ago, but a recent report from an archaeological dig in Israel concluded that they were first eaten in significant numbers about 2,200 years ago. Did humans invent chickens? But the few organisms with desirable traits are selected and used to create the […]

Kosher chicken is processed in a way that conforms to Jewish dietary laws. After the chicken’s neck is cut, the person who slaughters it must inspect the bird’s internal organs. This is to determine if the chicken had any disease from which it would have died naturally within a year. Are chickens considered kosher? Kosher […]

Bird flu spreads easily among birds, so the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) requires that any birds, fowl (e.g., chickens and ducks), exotic birds, and pets, be quarantined before they enter the U.S. The USDA says It is safe to eat chicken as long as it is thoroughly cooked because cooking kills the virus. Should […]

While more than half of the European Union’s laying hens are now raised in cage-free coops, the figure for Israel is only 3.2%, according to Poultry Industry Council figures, with the rest crammed tightly into cages. Join our Israeli cooking experience! Did the Israelites have chickens? A find in Israel shows evidence of chicken consumption […]

Around the Mediterranean, archaeological digs have uncovered chicken bones from about 800 B.C.. Chickens were a delicacy among the Romans, whose culinary innovations included the omelet and the practice of stuffing birds for cooking, although their recipes tended more toward mashed chicken brains than bread crumbs. Were there chickens in ancient Rome? While chickens and […]

Chickens first commercialized in Israel 2,300 years ago, researchers say – Israel Culture – The Jerusalem Post. Did they have chickens in ancient Israel? Chicken remains were found at other archaeological sites dating from the Hellenistic period (the fourth-second centuries BCE) around Israel. But they were a rarity. At Maresha, they constitute about 29% of […]

Southern fried chicken derives from Scottish American cuisine. Chicken and waffles, in particular, is a soul food dish associated with special occasions. Any of several varieties of fish, including catfish, whiting, porgies, bluegill, sometimes battered in seasoned cornmeal. Is fried chicken considered soul food? Soul food was born in the southern part of the United […]

Most African countries consist of the following indigenous chickens breeds: the Naked Neck, the Ovambo chicken, the Potchefstroom Koekoek, and the Boschveld and Venda chickens. When did chicken arrive in Africa? about 2,500 years agoPrevious research based on representations of chickens on ceramics and paintings, plus bones from other archaeological sites, suggested that chickens were […]

Did you know that the ancient Romans would have enjoyed fried chicken? A Roman cookbook called the Apicius lists a recipe for deep-fried chicken called Pullum Frontonianum, possibly after an contemporary named Frontone from the time of Emperor Septimius Severus. Did the Romans fry food? Most ordinary Romans would either boil their food or fry […]

The almost half a million west Africans enslaved in North America brought a knack for frying and braising chicken from their own cuisines. It was these African-Americans, many of whom were forced to work in the kitchens of slave plantations, who perfected the art of frying chicken. Where did fried chicken originate from? The American […]

What is the difference between fried chicken and Southern fried chicken? Southern fried chicken and fried chicken are the exact same thing. Why is it called Southern Fried Chicken? From the 17th to 19th Centuries, conventional wisdom designated the American South as fried chicken’s native habitat. Southerners made it a centrepiece of their regional cuisine […]

Record from China and Egypt show that fowl were domesticated and laying eggs for human consumption around 1400 B.C.E., and there is archaeoligical evidence for egg consumption dating back to the Neolithic age. The Romans found egg-laying hens in England, Gaul, and among the Germans. Where do eggs originally come from? According to food historians, […]

According to food historians, humans have been eating eggs for about 6 million years, originally eating them raw from the nests of wild birds. Jungle birds were domesticated for egg production in India by 3200 BC, and it is thought that Ancient Egypt and Ancient China were the first societies to domesticate hens. Where did […]

Chickens are native to the tropical jungles of Southeast Asia, but over the last approximately 8,000 years, chickens have been domesticated and spread around the globe to become one of the most valued domesticated animals. Where did chickens come from originally? The chicken is one of the most ubiquitous domesticated animals; it is bred for […]

the most important blood vessels to sever A deep horizontal cut into the neck muscle, across the front and both sides of the throat, just below the jaw bone, is called a ventral neck cut (VNC) and is a reliable method of severing both common carotid arteries and both external jugular veins, in all species. […]