# What do they do with chicken skin?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645 "2020-09-15T05:54:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645/21 "2020-09-16T12:51:33Z")

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I’ll note that poultry by-product may be fed to chickens, but I’m not sure. It was banned for livestock use in the EU in 2002. More likely the byproduct (skin too?) goes into pet food rather than chicken food.

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645/22 "2020-09-17T02:13:59Z")

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My husband hates chicken skin too - to the point that on the rare occasions I get fried chicken from the chicken shack down the street, he’ll peel the crispy fried part off and just eat the meat.

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**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645/23 "2020-09-17T02:28:04Z")

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Great art imitates life-

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645/24 "2020-09-17T03:09:47Z")

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Whether I eat the skin depends on what I’m making with the chicken.

When I had my semi-foster cat, I would sometimes give him bits of skin and other fatty goodies that I wouldn’t eat, because I knew he would.

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645/25 "2020-09-22T18:33:15Z")

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Ry Cooder once recorded an album called _Chicken Skin Music_, so he’s apparently a big fan. Maybe they just throw it all in a bucket for him to swing by later and pick up.

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**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645/26 "2020-09-26T20:53:20Z")

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So I went to the international market today, and I discovered these. Interestingly, they’re an American product.

[![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50387278997_5bf14de53d_b.jpg "IMG\_0357") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/50387278997/)

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