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I love chicken, but I have to admit I never thought of eating the cockscomb.
First of all, get your mind out of the gutter. Thank you. The cockscomb (also called "le creste") are those funny little things on top of the chicken's head. Eating this probably never occurred to most people, since it would be like eating someone's hat or maybe fingernails. But people do eat it.
The taste? Rowena at this site made it (with risotto) and says they "barely hinted of giblets." The final cooked product wouldn't scare me away, as long as the person serving it didn't tell me what it was or show me any "before" pictures.
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5-08-2007 @1:57AM Joshua Berman said... In Nicaragua, they call this part of the chicken the "pipi-regallo." Before a cockfight you chop off your roosters pipi-regallo and feed it to him to make him brave and strong. In other countries, the same word is slang for "clitoris."
Josh
http://blog.stonegrooves.net/
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5-08-2007 @4:43AM rowena said... Yikes...who would've known that my little kitchen experiment would extrude such curious details -- that's a whole lot of info from the previous comment! Wow!
On a funny note, my husband cannot understand the whole fuss over le creste. So I told him that it's not that much different from eating SPAM since it contains "other parts" too. He claims that he will never eat spam but I told him that he already has...he just didn't know it when I was introducing him to the favorite local foods of Hawaii!
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5-08-2007 @11:08AM ann said... They serve cock's combs at Casa Mono, Mario Batalli's tapas joint in Manhattan (where the guy that won top chef worked). I believe they're braised in wine, and to my palate tasted an awful lot like stewed mushrooms. I quite liked them!
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5-08-2007 @3:09PM CupcakeMagee said... *GAG*
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5-08-2007 @5:38PM anita said... Cookiecrumb ate cockscomb not too long ago, and blogged it here:
http://madeater.blogspot.com/2007/03/other-side.html
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5-10-2007 @10:40PM Gerald said... In the Philippines, barbequed chicken heads are considered as street food... Comb included.
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5-18-2007 @4:01PM Eleany said... Funny you mentioned it Gerald.
I'm Filipina and indeed its true, some people do eat it here most especially the guys in their drinking sessions. They have a funny name for it too, they call it Daisy and Donald duck.
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