chicken skin
it is the best
in my opinion
i wait ’til no one is milling around the kitchen and then i go into the whatever container of chicken and take off all the skin and eat the hell out of it and then i put the chicken breasts back in the container with no skin leftover and put it back in the fridge
though if i am feeling generous i will leave tiny skin fragments sometimes
chicken meat is boooooring
if i am eating the skin off of a drumstick i make a special allowance and eat the drumstick ‘cos not eating it is just plain rude
and when i am eating the skin
but only if it is the crunchy fried skin
i think about the three amigos the movie
when they are eating bats over the fire in the desert and they sound all crispy and crunchy
and so when i eat chicken skin i pretend i am eating fried bat wings
and then i think about the He-man movie that came out to rental when i was 4 or something and they are in america somewhere and they get a bucket of chicken and the one girl cannot believe that humans eat chickens, like, animals
she just couldn’t get over it
and because i was 4 years old roughly i put eight and five together in my head and realised hey IT IS POSSIBLE that i have eaten a CHICKEN
fantastic
so the next day at dinner i asked my family if it was true that we eat animals and because we were eating meat at the time they lied to me and said no
so i pressed
and demanded to know immediately where meat came from
was it grown did they make it from stuff how did they make it then why are there so many different kinds of it
it was a very ward moment
so in any case they shut me up and i believed for a little while that meat did not in fact come from animals until grade one or two when we learned about food groups
and then i have to admit
i was really PISSED OFF
and thus concludes my chicken skin manifesto the first
oh and i use to ask for more weeds which meant beans, as in string beans
though at least i said please
i had manners once upon a time
it’s true
