# Tastes like chicken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869 "2007-04-12T22:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/1 "2007-04-12T22:21:35Z")
[T-rex proteins coded](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21549465-1702,00.html) [and it’s closest to birds](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/science/12cnd-dino.html?hp) Scientists refused to speculate about the taste, but everyone else is jumping to the obvious conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/2 "2007-04-12T22:27:44Z")
Well I’ve eaten crocodile and snake, and neither of them were anything like chicken. Nor was “mountain chicken” aka “crapaud” in Dominican patois, aka “frog” (leptodactylus fallax). I’d imagine t-rex would be more like crocodile than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/3 "2007-04-12T22:45:49Z")
So who’s opening the _Jurassic Park_-style restaurant? It’s like catching lobsters in a tank, only you watch the T-Rexs storm about in a cage… ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/4 "2007-04-13T01:04:02Z")
Would they have to breed mini-T-rexes before it would be a viable commercial venture? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/5 "2007-04-13T07:04:27Z")
You might want to email a mod to have the thread title changed to “T-Rexes Tasted Like Chicken!” or “KFC’s Gonna Need a Bigger Bucket for T Rex Drumsticks” or similar, as I almost posted the article myself, until I saw your thread title and clicked on it thinking that you might have beaten me to the punch. This is really huge news, and it doesn’t look like too many people have bothered to check this thread so far. Changing the title might bump up the views. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/6 "2007-04-13T07:16:24Z")
Oh yeah, [here’s a piece announcing the original discovery](http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-24-voa55.cfm) of the soft tissues. And [here’s an article](http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524915.700&feedId=dinosaurs_rss20) about what appears to be the same protein found in dino eggs of a different species. Another good title suggestion: Dinos the Other White Meat. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/7 "2007-04-13T07:24:44Z")
I’ve always wanted to taste Marc Bolan. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/8 "2007-04-13T15:25:09Z")
I’ve sent the email asking for a title change. Thanks for the links, Tuckerfan. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/9 "2007-04-13T15:29:04Z")
Heck, Asimov wrote a story about this aeons ago – scientists bring back a dino from the past, it ends up dying on some electrodes or something, and smells _delicious_, so a business start up harvesting dinosaurs from the past for gourmet restaurants. I don’t think it “explained” the extinction of the dinosaurs, fortunately – that would’ve been too corny,. But it did have a great scene with the waiter describing the preparation of the dish. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/10 "2007-04-13T15:58:12Z")
Mmmmmm, T-Rex fajitas!!! “Here leezerd, leezerd, leezerd!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tastes-like-chicken/399869/11 "2007-04-13T16:22:01Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] So who’s opening the _Jurassic Park_-style restaurant? It’s like catching lobsters in a tank, only you watch the T-Rexs storm about in a cage… [/QUOTE] …with their tiny little front claws rubber-banded securely, for safety. 😛 Sailboat