# Chicken does not actually come from the sea. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217 "2006-10-04T07:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/21 "2006-10-04T23:37:23Z")
Yeah, but he says it in a Mel Gibson movie, man! ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/22 "2006-10-04T23:39:45Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] Age 44, actually. Sorry- but I’ve missed a lot of Pesci films (I think MY COUSIN VINNIE is the only one I’ve seen). I do agree about a Pesci\>Mewes beatdown, and about drivethrough fuckery. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but he says it in a Mel Gibson movie, man! ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/23 "2006-10-05T03:36:31Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] Yeah, but he says it in a Mel Gibson movie, man! [/QUOTE] I must admit I’m shocked that someone 44 years old..and male, wouldn’t have seen Lethal Weapon.. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/24 "2006-10-05T03:40:30Z")
[QUOTE=Jaade] I must admit I’m shocked that someone 44 years old..and male, wouldn’t have seen Lethal Weapon.. [/QUOTE] I’m shocked because I thought the line was, “They screw you at the drive through.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/25 "2006-10-05T03:41:24Z")
[QUOTE=black rabbit] Black Rabbit’s Drunken Toilet Suprise: Ingredients: - 6 bottles of Grolsch - 1 jar of Big Boy’s tartar sauce - 6-10 White Castle double cheeseburgers Instructions: - Drink all six bottles of Grolsch - Go buy more Grolsch - Open the jar of tartar sauce - Dip a corner of the cheeseburger in the tartar sauce - Take a bite - Dip another corner of the cheeseburger in the tartar sauce - Repeat until all cheeseburgers are gone - Eat any remaining tartar sauce with a spoon Yyyyuummmm… [/QUOTE] Where does the toilet come in? No, wait, I see now. Blearghhhh. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/26 "2006-10-05T04:53:09Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] I like tartar sauce on chicken. [/quote] Dude, you’re weird. > [@](#): > > sturmhauke, do you like mayo & pickles on chicken? Mayo yes, pickles no. Fast food pickles are merely tolerable anyway. > [@](#): > > If so, it’s basically the same as tartar sauce! You forgot the onions and lemon juice. > [@Rilchiam](#): > > Which is why I always count the cartons of fries, taste the drinks if I didn’t draw them myself, lift the top bun of the sandwiches, and count my change, before leaving the establishment. And it’s not too late after you’ve pulled forward, either. I checked for onion rings, which is why I parked and went in. I have never before got the wrong slab of animal protein on what was otherwise the correct sandwich. Even if I had looked, I might not have noticed that it was chicken without taking a bite. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/27 "2006-10-05T06:02:50Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] Did anyone else hear this in “Jay”/Jason Mewes’s voice? [/QUOTE] No, but it made me picture the OP smashing up the burger king while yelling “This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/28 "2006-10-05T08:44:43Z")
Actually, chicken [does](http://www.foodservicedirect.com/productimages/OT121975S.jpg) come from the sea. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/29 "2006-10-05T16:45:46Z")
With kids who would not eat FF sandwiches unless they came totally and completely plain, I learned to open and check the sandwiches before even pulling ahead. It may have caused a 10 second delay for the people behind me, but we’d set up an assembly line, everyone grab a sandwich out of the bag and verify, and it saved a lot of heartache later. But I have to admit that no one ever thought to check for chicken in place of fish for a fish sandwich. When my son was younger, he liked food from the local Jack In the Box. For several months, there was a guy named Juan working the drive-through who had this wonderful accent, so that “Jack” came out “Yack,” and whatever the sandwich was my son liked, there were multiple Ys for Js in the name so it was always a delight to listen to him repeat the order back. Juan also was amazingly friendly, efficient, helpful, got everything right every time, and unfortunately (for us, not for him, obviously) was promoted to supervisor in record time. Which meant he was no longer on the window. Somehow, those sandwiches lost their appeal for my son when he didn’t get them from Juan. But I figure Juan is managing a whole string of FF restaurants now; he was the perfect example of how good work gets you places, even in the most lowly of settings. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/30 "2006-10-05T17:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] No, but it made me picture the OP smashing up the burger king while yelling “This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!” [/QUOTE] I changed my mind – I think I’ll have lunch! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/31 "2006-10-05T18:50:09Z")
_shrug_ Chicken and tartar sauce doesn’t sound bad at all. I put chicken, mayo, and something pickled on a chicken sandwich, so why not tartar sauce? Fish and salsa also isn’t weird. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/32 "2006-10-05T18:51:57Z")
I mean, [look at the freakin’ picture on the Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartar_sauce) link for tartar sauce. Guess what? Chicken with tartar sauce (swimming in it, in fact). Ergo, no so weird. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/33 "2006-10-05T19:18:13Z")
Wikipedia can be weird. But if you are talking eggs, olive oil, garlic and diced cucumbers, I can eat a brick with that on it; but too often it’s Miracle Whip and Sweet Hot Dog Relish. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/34 "2006-10-05T19:22:23Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Actually, chicken [does](http://www.foodservicedirect.com/productimages/OT121975S.jpg) come from the sea. [/QUOTE] See, where you and Jessica Simpson get confused is that by “Chicken of the Sea”, I think they’re saying “tuna is like the chicken of the sea”, not “this can contains chicken that comes from the sea”. It’s a metaphor, dude. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/35 "2006-10-05T22:49:32Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] I mean, [look at the freakin’ picture on the Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartar_sauce) link for tartar sauce. Guess what? Chicken with tartar sauce (swimming in it, in fact). Ergo, no so weird. [/QUOTE] Sorry, still weird. And that is way too damn much tartar sauce anyway, even if it was a piece of fish underneath. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/36 "2006-10-06T00:34:16Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I’m shocked because I thought the line was, “They screw you at the drive through.” 🙂 [/QUOTE] Only if you watch the edited for TV version. They also fuck you at the hospital. And with the cell phones, too. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/37 "2006-10-06T00:49:18Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] Only if you watch the edited for TV version. [/QUOTE] Ah. Well, anti-semites don’t get my money. If you’re going to hate and drive, get a designated hater. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/38 "2006-10-06T01:26:17Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Ah. Well, anti-semites don’t get my money. If you’re going to hate and drive, get a designated hater. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Maybe it’s “If you’re going to hate and drive, get a designated drinker.” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/39 "2006-10-06T04:46:55Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] Sorry, still weird. And that is way too damn much tartar sauce anyway, even if it was a piece of fish underneath. [/QUOTE] Well, I disagree that it’s weird, but I do agree that that’s _way_ too much tartar sauce. Do a search on “chicken with tartar sauce.” Plenty o’ hits. Why do you think tartar sauce only belongs on fish? Taste-wise, it doesn’t make any sense. Tartar sauce works perfectly well with chicken and pretty much any deep friend foods (in Hungary, for instance, tartar sauce was the regular accompaniament to deep-fried cheese.) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/40 "2006-10-06T05:10:03Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] …Mayo yes…You forgot the…lemon juice… [/QUOTE] Um, doesn’t most mayo have lemon juice in it? [http://www.mayo.com/xml/NutritionInfo.asp?ProdId=HELLMANNSREAL](http://www.mayo.com/xml/NutritionInfo.asp?ProdId=HELLMANNSREAL) CMC fnord! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217.md?page=3)