^^thats just makes me want to run out and try some fried chicken live!
Tricky, but guaranteed fresh. 
I was at Publix today and WHOLE chickens are 69 cents per pound. That’s pretty cheap for some good fresh breast meat. Why do you need to eat the liver?
It tastes good. Breast meat, on the other hand, is bland.
His name is not a coincidence - he’s the SDMB chicken expert.
Just wrap the head in a frozen towel when you fry them, that keeps them alive. Think nothing of the noises it makes, it is just the air leaving its lungs. Use a splash guard.
Yeah. Blue mouthwash tastes the way toilet-bowl cleaner smells.
Because breast meat isn’t liver? 
And breast meat sucks. Gimme thigh any day.
Seriously, people, there are some of us who eat liver because we like it, not because it’s some cheap food. I love deep-fried chicken livers (and many of the local fried chicken shacks serve 'em and fried gizzards around here). Pate is great. When I was a kid, one of my favorite treats was my mom’s chestnut-less variation on rumaki: just chicken livers wrapped in bacon and baked. Livers were a treat in homemade chicken soup (I wasn’t as big a fan of heart, though).
The only reason to eat a chicken liver is because someone stole your cat and you can’t be bothered to walk out to the compost heap.
Let me get the straight. You kept eating them after you bit into the bad one? Ewwwww . . .
In reading the OP I am reminded of the Stephen King story about the guy who drank most of a can of beer before realizing it had gone bad. He eventually mutated into a giant, slimy, gray, pulsing, yellow-eyed mutant amoeba.
I don’t know what eating a chicken gallbladder will do to a human, but one can imagine an enormous, nightmare version of the San Diego Chicken… :eek:
His? For some reason, I pictured Pullet as a female.
Oh, and you should only eat liver from cholecystectomized birds!
A man with your username should have slightly more all-embracing tastes. Chicken livers, properly prepared (I’d normally say “hold the gallbladder”, myself), are delectable. They make nice pâte, too.
And of course, bile is often a component of vomit. So you ate chicken puke.
ETA: I should have said “drank”.
As a kid, I hated liver. Of course, the calves’ liver was cooked to shoe leather consistency in our house. And the flavor & texture did not improve as I sat glaring at it. It just got colder. Eventually, Mom decided to stop trying to serve it.
Then–I tasted some chicken livers fried in a cornmeal coating. Yum. It made me look at all livers in a new way. (Fried okra also convinced me that the green pod could be something other than slimy.)
Our many Louisiana immigrants (who started coming long before Katrina) brought Dirty Rice to Texas. That’s rice cooked with chicken livers, gizzards, spices–& perhaps a bit of sausage. Yum!
(I’ll pass on the gall bladders, though.)
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You’re welcome.
Johnny is far more hearty than I would have been. While I could probably eat chicken livers provided I didn’t know what they were before trying them (and assuming I didn’t find the flavour objectionable), biting into any piece of meat and having it burst likes a pustule full of the main component in vomit, I would have no choice but to follow suit and in much greater volume. Right there. Violently. Not unlike Mr. Spew above.
Yes, bile is disgusting stuff. If you’ve ever gutted a chicken yourself, you know to be careful when taking out the livers and gall bladder. If you burst that gall bladder, the bile gets all over the inside of the chicken, and it’s hard to get that bitterbitterbitter flavor out.
Oddly enough, at the international grocery store near my house, I saw pork bile for sale next to the pork blood in the Filipino section. Now, I could understand plenty of uses for pork blood, being a fan of blutwurst/kiszka/veres hurka (all types of blood sausage), but I can’t possibly imagine a culinary use for bile. Anybody know?
I so want fried chicken liver now. Maybe with some cornbread and cloeslaw.
This thread should be book-marked for those on a diet.
Ah… That would be negative. I sort of lost my appetite after discovering the gall bladder.