The dark meat might actually be poisonous or something; you’d better let me eat it, no, really - I don’t mind - you guys have the best bit - the white meat, I’ll just take care of the disposal of this nasty, sticky, juicy, delicious… I mean dangerous dark meat. Tee hee.
Personally, I don’t think there’s enough difference to love one and hate the other. Dark meat has more flavor, white meat is dryer… but all in all, they’re both chicken.
Someone once asked The Playboy Advisor “What’s the difference between Dark Meat and White Meat?”
Their immediate response?
“Is this a Sex Question?”
I prefer dark - particularly the drumsticks - not so much because it’s tastier (though it is, to me) but because it can be easily eaten with the hands, like corn on the cob.
As long as we’re on the subject of pultry physiology, I’m going to hijack to something I’d always been curious about. On the drumstick, coming out of the cartilage cap at the top, there’s this pointy thin bone, kind of like a toothpick. Does that bone have a name?
I think that’s the (chicken equivalent of the) fibula, while the main portion of the drumstick is the tibia.
Here’s a diagram, which should hold true for most birds: http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Laboratories/BirdSkeleton.gif
Looks like it, thanks for the diagram. Though the main drumstick is apparently called “Tibiotarsus”…looks like birds have an extra leg bone that most mammals don’t.
which one? are you talking about the hypotarsus? if so this just a situation similar to many other animals (commonly noted “crooked as a dogs hind leg”)
The last time I grabbed a chicken to bake when it came out the wings and thighs were white meat. That made me sad. 
I should specify it made me sad both because I felt bad for the poor chicken that never got a chance to really walk and fly, and because I prefer dark meat.
Yes, that’s the one I was referring to. True, dogs hind legs look crooked like that, but the skeletal morphology can be matched in terms familiar on the human skeleton. Despite the similarity in shape, dogs hind legs are not, internally, like chickens’.
i am guessing that internal morphology has evolved into what is now unique to avians. i continue my speculation that the bird doesn’t have an extra leg bone but rather an evolutionary adaptation of the foot. similar to other animals.