Posted on 01/18/2008 7:00:08 PM PST by JACKRUSSELL
Chicken feet are not generally considered as produce nor consumed in Turkey, but rather than throw them away, companies are making money by exporting them to Far Eastern countries.
Turkey's exports set a new record last year, rising to a total $105 billion last year, and $17 million of this amount came from chicken feet, mostly exported to China.
Chicken feet are considered as waste in Turkey, said the president of the Aegean Livestock Fishery Products Exporters' Association, Sinan Kızıltan. But now chicken farmers have the opportunity to export these products to Far Eastern countries. If chicken feet are considered solely as waste and are not exported, disposal costs the producer, said Kızıltan, so it makes even more sense to export.
By getting rid of our waste in this way, foreign currency is flowing into Turkey. Although we do not hear about anyone eating chicken feet, in China there is huge demand. They eat them like chips.
Exporting 27,000 tonnes of chicken feet annually:
CP Group, which started operating in Thailand in 1921 and established the first feed factory in Inegöl, Bursa in 1986, has been exporting chicken feet for the last seven years. Today CP Group has investments in 20 countries and staff numbering over 100,000. The company has a total revenue of $13 billion.
The number of chicken feet exporters in Turkey was very small, with only five or six companies involved, said the general district manager of the CP Standart Food Industry and Trade Inc., Bedri Girit, adding: We were already aware of the Far East market when other firms discovered it not too long ago. There is a tough competition in the market where only a small number of firms can survive.
The CP Group's annual income from chicken feet is $1.5 million, said Girit.
Waste not, want not. Yuck!
When I was in Taipei, I ate Duck feet.
Well, in certain parts of our country, pig’s feet (pickled) are considered a delicacy. ;-)
Mmmm, chicken feet. I’ve had it, once. Turkey isn’t the first to figure this out. Chickens have light meat, and dark meat. Most people prefer light meat in the US. If you’ve ever wondered what a KFC does with all of the dark meat, go to a KFC in China.
My husband loves this odd delicacy, me no way - yuck, yuck, yuck!!!!!!/Just Asking - seoul62.........
**Waste not, want not. Yuck!***
My mom told of eating fried chicken feet during the depression of 1929-1940.
The chicken companies here ship millions of them to the Asians.
One man’s trash....
gag....
I’d have to be awfully hungry....
Don’t the English like that too?
“Waste not, want not. Yuck!”
Just tonite I read an article in our local paper about mincemeat and head cheese. Can’t give you a link, I’m not a premium subscriber!
Seems like they’d be kind of chewy, but when it comes to food, I’ll try most anything once. I’ll keep an eye out for them.
***Well, in certain parts of our country, pig’s feet (pickled) are considered a delicacy. ;-)***
Our local store now has pickled pig lips.
And of course, Pork brains in milk gravy.
My mom used to make head cheese when I was a kid. I liked it.
When I was a kid we had neighbors who ate chicken’s feet.
Chicken feet! You can’t make good chicken soup without them. Ask any grandmother from New York City.
Turn up your noses if you want. The pilgrims wouldn’t eat lobster either.
Folks around here eat chicken feet (the old old timers).
I once was treated to a formal Chinese 12-course business meal. One of the courses was chicken feet. If you haven’t had them, think of that thick rubbery skin at the end of a chicken leg. It extends down around the foot and there is no meat under it. It’s like chewing on flavored rubber. You’re suppose to gnaw on it a few times and toss it back on the plate — or so I was told.
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Just DAMN. No wonder they are puttin lead in kids toys....
I’ve been blessed never having to go to bed hungry. I would have to be starving to eat those feet in pic 3.
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