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[periwinkle]

Well, after being here almost 5 years, I discovered that people eat chicken a s s h o l e s in the ROK. My husband loves them, and said he used to eat them all the time for a snack after school. Said you buy them from food vendors on the street. I've only been to a vendor once (and got food poisioning), so I avoid them with a passion (which is why I was clueless about the chicken butts).

I will probably never try them, but I'm curious. What are they like? Does anybody on this board like them? Hubby says they are a bit chewy, but not as chewy as intestines. He said they taste like meat.

[peony]

they call them a-holes but they are gizzards, commonly eaten even in the US

[periwinkle]

Thanks, G, but what are they like?

[peony]

personally, i like em but only if cooked well, til crispy

they are very chewy, i wouldnt really say meaty... you know when you get some chewy seafood like abalone? the texture is like that

as for taste, it tends to pick up flavors from the seasonings as it has a very mild flavor

[Swiss James]

they remind me of tiny calamari, but without the batter-

so they're not a-holes then? That's what put me off an otherwise pleasant experience.

[peony]

nope, just plan ol' gizzards

[tardisrider]

Yup, I'm backing Peony up on this one. I'm a chicken gizzard eater from way back, and that's what they are. And they're pretty darn good, too.

[haywill22]

I think the jury is still out on this one,

I assume your talking about "Dalk dung jip" or Chicking dung house.

I eat at the Pochanmacha at least a few times a week. My western friends all swear that this dish is gizzards, all my Korean friends (including the ajumma who runs the tent) and a friend from the Phillipines swear that this is the chickens rectum and that it is a common dish in their countries also... not sure who is right. Chickens defecate, copulate, and birth through their rectum, I was told that this food was that organ.

If it is in fact rectums, you would think you'd see a seperate dish of gizzards, as Koreans claim to make use of every part of the chicken except the beak.

[JongnoGuru]

[Jeju Rocks]

I know that I am straying off topic, butt not too far . Anyone ever use the term The Pope's Nose? It is the tail end of a chicken. I was never allowed to say that at the dinner table.
Straying even farther off topic, I wonder how many people these days even have a dinner table. Three meals a day were the norm for me growing up, at either the lunch or dinner table. As a kid I always loved the idea of not sitting at the table when I ate, in front of the TV was great.
When I was a university student I recall many times using a drive through and eating in my friend's car. Eating out of a bag, a straw stuck in my face driving around town.
Living in Korea has gotten me back to the dinner table. Whether it is the table with chairs or the one on the floor type. Eating at the table makes you appreciate the food and the people you are with, rather than the rerun of MASH that is on TV.
I am glad that Korea does not have drive through fast food. Maybe they do exist, I have never seen one.
If I ever have kids I will insist that the lunch and dinner tables are used as much as possible. I wonder what language my kids will come up with that will cause me to frown upon them.
After all this being said, I think I will order a pizza and see what DVD the wife has picked up.

[crazykiwi]

HaHa, damn I love virtually everything about the humble chicken. I will strip that baby down till theres nothing left that even a cat would touch. And yes, by golly gorn gosh, the a hole is one of my savoured morsels! plus all those juicy "innards" that seem to wanna hide till you rip those mutha bones apart to get at em!

aragharghazrgh chicken butts! gotta love em!

[Tiger Beer]

i ate chicken a s s h o l e the other night back in December.. my students were really excited about me trying them.. so i did.

yeap, really chewy. tasted fine.. but thats about the extent of it.

students call them 'chicken a s s h o l e'.. who knows why..

[peony]

it is definitely gizzards, its called ���� because it looks like one

this is a raw gizzard




and this is the same thing cooked:



���� is a misnomer, you'll also find restaurants selling it as �߸���

[Col.Brandon]

A guy goes into a restaurant, sits down, and looks at the menu. The waiter comes along to take his order and the man says, "I'll have the chicken pissholes, please." The waiter looks confused and asks him to repeat his order, and again he says, "I'll have the chicken pissholes." The waiter examines the menu, then realising what the problem is he says to the man, "I'm sorry sir, there's a printing error on the menu; that should be an 'R'."
To which the man replies, "OK, I'll have the chicken Arseholes then!"