Where did the idiotic phrase "tastes like chicken" originate?

Question

I can think of two movies off hand that use that phrase, Lion King and Fern Gully, and I know there are a few more 90's movies but I can't remember them. Are they parodies of an old commercial, or was it some catch phrase?

Answer 1

it came from africa

Answer 2

The real question is when chicken was first ate, what did it taste like?

Answer 3

haha i dont know but its hilarious.

Answer 4

Well. the fact is that a lot of meats that most people aren't familiar with eating really do taste like chicken, and since chicken is a meat that most people have eaten, it was a good way to describe how the less eaten meats taste. For example, armadillo, frog, alligator and turtle really are similar to chicken. Hence, tastes like chicken. I agree, though, that it is used too much and about things that have nothing to with the phrase itself.

Answer 5

no - years ago, it was sort of a cliche - when you asked someone who a different meat tasted, let's say rattlesnake, they almost always answered "kind of like chicken"

whether the meat was snake, or buffalo or whatever.

i think it is partly because it is difficult to describe  how a meat tastes, and maybe also to convince kids to eat it - most kids are OK eating chicken.

But somewhere along the way, people started using it in a more joking manner, to describe the taste of everything from beetles to worms to humans.

Answer 6

Thats been around for forever, and it means what it says, everything tastes like chicken..

Answer 7

When trying to describe the flavor of meat the listener has never eaten, a common declaration is that it tastes like chicken. The expression has been used so often that it has become somewhat of a cliché. As a result, the phrase also sometimes gets used for incongruous humor, by being deployed for foods or situations to which it has no real relevance.

The expression has made its way into popular culture in a variety of contexts. The phrase has made modern appearances in the media, such as in The Lion King, Six Days Seven Nights, The Matrix, Stargate, Surf's Up and the initial season of the reality television show Survivor.

As an explanation of why unusual meats would taste more like chicken than common alternatives such as beef or pork, different possibilities have been offered. One suggestion is that chicken has a bland taste because fat contributes more flavor than muscle (especially in the case of a lean cut such as a skinless chicken breast), making it a generic choice for comparison. Also, chicken reportedly has lower levels of glutamates that contribute to the "savory" aspect of taste sometimes known as umami; processing or tenderizing other meats would also lower glutamate levels and make them taste more like chicken.

Another suggestion, made by Joe Staton of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, is that meat flavors are fixed based on the evolutionary origin of the animal. Accordingly, birds (the most numerous form of meat by type) would naturally taste more like chicken than mammals. Furthermore, based on evidence for dinosaurs as the ancestors of birds, reptile meat might also taste somewhat like chicken. Seafood, however, would logically have a more distinctive flavor. Staton's lighthearted study of the question was published in the Annals of Improbable Research.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

don't forget the movie shark tale

Answer 10

The expression has made its way into popular culture in a variety of contexts. The phrase has made modern appearances in the media, such as in The Lion King, Six Days Seven Nights, The Matrix, Stargate, Surf's Up and the initial season of the reality television show Survivor.

I don't really know when it was first used, perhaps when Christians first went to Africa to convert the cannibals??

Answer 11

I think it's some catch phrase meaning everything tastes like chicken.

Answer 12

No Its  what  people  say  about  things that  they  are  trying  to  get someone  else  to eat, usually  for  the  sake  of  their  survival.

Most of us are  not  inclined  to  eat  rattlesnake  meat for  example  so  if  someone  tells  you  it  tastes  like  chicken  you  might  try it.

We're  usually  not  worried  about  food  having  NO flavour. Its  when  food  has  TOO MUCH flavor that most of  us  bail out.

the  fact is unseasoned chicken is  fairly bland and  doesnt have  a lot  of  flavor anyway so  its  probably  close  to  the  truth  in  a lot  of  cases.

the  usage of  the  phrase  has  become  a parody  of  itself in  a lot of  cases, being  used  to  describe the  taste  of  anything, even  aliens  from  outer space.

Answer 13

well if it looks like chicken,smells like chicken,taste like chicken it must be chicken.But if it does not look like chicken or smell like chicken...... Then it just taste like chicken.

Answer 14

well most people like chicken, and to get someone else to eat fish or something they said "it tastes like chicken" some stupid phrase to get kids to eat stuff

Answer 15

I think it was referring to what frog legs taste like.  that was the comparison of the meat.

Answer 16

I think it was not actually originated in a movie. It was just an example people really used in reference to other types of meat like rabbit, duck and it sorta became almost a joke after time.

Answer 17

I think it came from the idea that every body always says that a weird meat (alligator, crocodile, snake, rabbit) taste like chicken! Especially down south!

Answer 18

God was getting tired of assigning flavors so he just made lotsa stuff taste like chicken.He figured no-one was gonna eat that c**p, anyway.

Answer 19

WHEN PEOPLE STARTED EATING FROG LEGS