Depression Era Mock Chicken + Vintage ‘Chicken Sans Volaille’ Gadget | City Chicken Recipe


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Chicken Sans Volaille or chicken without poultry? What in the world? Let’s time travel to the 1930s where in some places chicken …

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  1. kendi holloway
    kendi holloway says:

    We can still buy mock chicken drumsticks at our butcher shop but it's made with sausage mince,breadcrumbs,stuffing mix & seasoning shaped into a drumstick around a thick wooden skewer. It is chilled then crumbed, then fried. My Grandmas mock chicken was a war ration recipe it was grated onion and a crushed tomato cooked then add an egg & cheese stir rapidly over heat until smooth. It was used as a sandwich spread.

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  2. Tired
    Tired says:

    I grew up in Detroit and we’d eat this all the time! Every time we went to Eastern Market, my folks would pick these up. My sister and I would get into trouble for having sword fights with the skewers from these.

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  3. cerviidae
    cerviidae says:

    You can buy drumsticks for cheaper, but you have bone and gristle/cartilage that isn’t always edible. So if you’re really punching pennies, this could actually go a little farther. 😌

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  4. emiboo106
    emiboo106 says:

    There is a meat market/butcher in my hometown in Wisconsin that made these and had them ready to cook in the case! We bought them a lot when I was growing up! So it's cool to hear the origin of them!

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  5. vanessa garzon
    vanessa garzon says:

    Hi ! I love watching all your videos I would love to see you try some food from my country colombia 🇨🇴 I would love to see you make it or just buy it somewhere Colombian close to you. I recommend Colombian burger , or Colombian hotdogs. Or empanadas! They’re all very delicious. Would love too see your reaction

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  6. Tiffany T.
    Tiffany T. says:

    I keep thinking… if there couldn't be some kind of way to USE that device to make a kind of vegan chicken leg imitation food. You would just need something that can be formed into shapes like seitan, put it in there and let it take the shape by perhaps dipping it in some boiling water for a minute or so to get the shape set up? I don't know, but I bet us vegans can get good use out of those metal utensils.

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  7. Ryan Bogan
    Ryan Bogan says:

    Omg this is a staple in my childhood Polish household and a standard for Southeast Michigan. Lots of the Polish restaurants have this and serve it with a gravy over top as well. You gotta try it with the gravy a side of soft rye bread (extra butter) and a big bowl of dill pickle soup or Beet soup. Yuum. Such good childhood memories of my grandma firing up the electric skillet and the wonderful smell the house would have for dinner.

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  8. Trish Hamilton
    Trish Hamilton says:

    How timely, we are heading this way in our country. I do love old recipes we do need to remember less we repeat…. oops we are doing that too….. What a clown world we now inhabit. Good Luck to all in the Free Land.

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  9. Kate G
    Kate G says:

    Binghamton NY area had city chicken at several places- personal favorite is Vestal Bakery – which was more of a close to the hs pizza place where we could walk to for lunch (back in the days when we could do that- 80’s-90’s). Definitely more of just chunked pork- and delicious. Growing up there, I always thought they were the fried version of a spiedie. (Which Emmy you should absolutely cover! Spiedies are a Binghamton regional thing- not found much beyond an hour outside of the city. And Syracuse salt potatoes – this girl is dreaming is summer now!)

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  10. love yourself please
    love yourself please says:

    I made homemade pork & veggie fried rice to go with our pork gyoza tonight, I always use white pepper when I make it but I got a little heavy handed tonight. It still tastes very good just very white pepper forward

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  11. Jen Wylie
    Jen Wylie says:

    We used to eat "mock chicken" lunch meat when we were kids. I'm not sure if it's just a Canadian thing. I never asked what was in it. I just googled it; the first ingredient is pork .

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  12. Meg Wilcox
    Meg Wilcox says:

    My mother had a meat-ball version of the tool. When she used it, she rinsed it in cold water after every ball, which kept the meat from sticking. I guess that "City Chicken" never made it to Toronto, where I grew up. Mum bought her chicken at a Jewish shop across town, where the chickens hung in the window. I'm 62.

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