I have been having an unsettling craving for KFC for 2 weeks. I succumbed and decided to pig-out, despite my fast-expanding waistline, post-festive-holiday season.
The scenario at Kentucky Fried Chicken at Midvalley Megamall:
KFC Girl: Good afternoon. May I have your order please.
Me: I’d just like 2 piece chicken, Original Recipe. No breast meat, please.*
KFC Girl: Ok. No drink? Anything else?
Me: No thank you.
So, I pay her, and she goes get my order.
On my plate, she gives me one drumstick, and one chicken breast, the part with the BREAST bone, or rib-cage looking part .
Me: I said, I don’t want chicken breast.
KFC Girl: This is not breast meat. This is CHEST meat.
Me: ??? (Speechless and in awe)
She proceeds to pick up HER definition of breast meat and shows it to me. This is the other half portion which I also consider breast meat. This is the part with the soft bone.
KFC Girl: This is BREAST meat. This one I give you is CHEST meat.
Can anyone help me out here? Is what she said correct?
I tried looking it up here, and it has pictures of breast meat, alright. And their pictures are as MY thoughts of what is breast meat.
So, is there really breast meat AND chest meat? Or is she just pulling my leg?
* I was told you cannot request for which part of the chicken you want. However, you can request for which part you DON’T want. Go figure!
You have to forgive them. The chicken meat she showed you must be chicken thigh. I always change my chicken request when I order KFC, 1 chicken breast and 1 chicken wing, 😀
No forgiving. Unless she is correct. And she showed me the other part of the breast. Silly woman. She just decided to call it CHEST I think.
I think that piece of meat is from a Male chicken, so she call it Chest, instead of breast 😛
See, thats is why I like to go KFC with Wing Loon, because he will exchange the chicken thigh with me, because I dont eat chicken breast too …. khekekhhek…
In the case of human beings, the breast will usually refer to the mammary gland, while the chest is the entire front torso area where the ribcage is found and includes the two breasts or mammary glands.
Thus the breast is only part of the chest while the chest covers both breasts.
Thus those with “breast cancer” are sent to the “Chest Clinic” in the case of the KL University Hospital.
Both words are actually “unisex” in nature, though the two female mammary glands are often regarded as sexual organs as well.
In the case of chicken, not being a mammal, there are actually no two mammary glands to be found.
Yet the term “breast meat” is often used to refer to that found in the “chest” region. Strange but true!
Whether right or wrong choice/use of these two words, I leave it to the reader(s) concerned.
Samuel Goh Kim Eng
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com
Mon. 14th Jan. 2008.
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