Posted on 03/05/2005 4:19:25 AM PST by billorites
CLEVELAND - Health officials are putting eleven states on the lookout for boneless chicken feet -- an Asian delicacy the government says was illegally smuggled into the country.
The government banned imports of birds and poultry products from Asia last year because of bird flu.
Officials are visiting hundreds of Asian restaurants and markets in Ohio today to explain the health risks. Chicken feet have already been seized at stores in Cleveland and Columbus.
The Agriculture Department says a Connecticut-based importer, Food King, distributed chicken feet to 68 stores in eleven states. The company has cooperated with a voluntary recall.
Besides Ohio, affected states are Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
The avian flu has killed people in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia in the past year.
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My, isn't multiculturalism grand! Actually, it can kill.
One of these days, the pot is going to be boiling and burning up on the stove, but there will be no one left to care...
Carolyn
You don't...you just enjoy the crunchy, sweet goodness!
I think they boil them first.
Yeah, chicken feet are good. I always get tired before I get full, though.
Funny...I'm always hungry within an hour of downing a plate of delicious barbequed chicken's feet...plus, the dog starts to look REALLY TASTY...
Who knows what also comes into the US in those hundreds-of-thousands of uninspected shipping containers?
Nothin' says 'Good Morning!' like some chicken feet and maybe some duck blood cakes. Mmm, mmm.
I was in Kamloops, British Columbia last month buying groceries for a ski trip and bought some ready-cooked chicken from the freezer dept. When I got ready to use it I noticed it was a product of Thailand. I threw it away. I can't understand why Canada imports frozen chicken all the way from there, especially with the bird flu in Asia.
You must combine East and West cuisine in order to avoid that empty feeling. Simply have a side dish of pork rinds. ;-)
What do you call a chicken with boneless feet ?
Stationary.
How about a market solution? Tyson must have about a billion chicken feet to get rid of every year. If people are willing to pay smuggler's prices for these (blech) 'delicacies', there must be a good market for them.
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