White Meat

I just want to say, without fear of political reprisals or accusations or firestorms, that I have never liked Chik-Fil-A. Whenever we're on the road and Fast Food looks likely I never vote for CFA for the simple reason that I just don't like white chicken meat. It is my entirely individual theory that Americans are a nation of people who like convenience and cleverness and marketing but not flavor. Our national palate has all the complexity of a six year old child you're trying to convince to eat broccoli. If the flavor is rich and complex and mature, the average American rejects it. They want their food to be simple to the point of relative tastelessness. And it's not just chicken, either. Americans want bland seafood too. I'm currently at war with shrimp and tilapia, two products of the water that only taste like what you cook them with: Starter Seafood for those afraid of fishy taste.

White chicken meat has almost no flavor - certainly chicken meat raised by American factory farms, shot full of antibiotics and growth hormones, genetically modified to plump up at an unnatural pace, fed a diet of bland plumping food. It's a simple rule of protein that animals taste like what they eat and how they live. Factory farmed chickens taste like pharmaceuticals and blandness. You get some factory farmed chicken white meat and the only thing you're going to taste is the condiments you dump on it. That's where the flavor comes from.

I'm not a fan . . . I'll eat dark meat because that's where what little bit of flavor chicken contains ends up. It's moist and has flavor and is comparatively richer. But white meat - you could deep fry cardboard shaped like a CFA patty, slap it on a bun, cover it with pickles and whatever condiment you're tribally connected to, and the average CFA customer wouldn't know the difference.

I don't like CFA but that's the only reason why I don't go to that particular Fast Food Trough. It has absolutely nothing to do with their politics. As far as I'm concerned, if CFA wants to support this party or that party they have every right under the Constitution to do so regardless of whether I agree with them or not. And people can line up on either side of the aisle either boycotting or bellying up to the trough for another tasteless puck of genetically mutated blandness. You're both right.

I'll reserve my opinions, my political actions and my desire to eat well for another realm. Thanks and good day.