Beware: this post is not for the faint-hearted since it contains graphic contents. Continue at your own risk.
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The mutilation involved a slaughtered chicken (it’s halal, thank you, imported from France, or is it Denmark?) and I was the mutilator. Or you could say that I tried to be a butcher.
Last Saturday I had a walkabout in the city. Just going to the seaside and enjoying the sun and the not-so-cold breeze while savoring my “brilliant” accomplishment in a certain assignment. Remembering the fact that I was told that there is a butcher near Aristotle Square that sells halal chicken, I went to look for it. After a few misturn here and there, I finally went into a butcher shop knowing that nobody inside talks English. So, I just ask for a “Dani kotopulo” (dani for Danish? and kotopulo is chicken in Greek and written as κοτοπουλο). The butcher showed me a packed-frozen-whole chicken. Frantically, I searched a halal label, because the butcher insisted me (using Greek language of course) to buy that chicken, he was ready to pack it. I found the halal label and paid €3.25 for the whole chicken. I went home happy since I feel that I was going to eat chicken after a week with veggies and canned fishes.
And then it strucked me. I don’t know ANYthing on cutting a whole chicken. NOTHING. So, I just left the chicken in the freezer for the night.
Today, I had the guts to do some butchery. It’s also because I don’t have anything else to eat. So, I took the chicken out of the freezer and open the plastic package. To defrost it, I just put it in a pan full of water and leave it for an hour or so. After it’s thawed, I took the only knife I have, a small knife (a steak knife), and started to work my way through.
I only look for the identifiable, edible parts of the chicken, namely: the wings, the tighs (lower and upper), and the breasts. I was reluctant to find anything more inside the chicken, fearing that I am going to find something nasty. With such small knife, I really had a hard time, first to identify those edible parts, and then to separate them with the main body. But after an hour or so, I finally did it, I brutally mutilated the chicken and collected those edible parts. Can you name the parts of the chicken in the picture?
One last thing, I am still keeping the chicken’s body, if anyone could suggest anything to do with it. Hey, I paid for it and the main body still weighs more than the other parts combined. Please, suggest something through the comment form below.
