# What is the "chicken tongue" in this video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 9, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264 "2018-01-09T19:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/1 "2018-01-09T19:23:31Z")
Maybe you’ve already seen this legendary bit of YouTube stoner humor - [Gimme Pizza (Slow)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpet67TTVag) - a song/sketch from an old kids’ show with Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen about making a pizza with crazy ingredients, but slowed down so that it sounds like some kind of demented drug-induced nightmare. If you haven’t seen it - it’s hilarious. At 3:27 a girl says “chicken tongue” and holds up something in her hand. What is that thing? I’m pretty sure it’s not an actual chicken tongue. But what is it? ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/2 "2018-01-09T19:37:07Z")
I’m not willing to say that it’s not a chicken tongue but it looks a little like a small squid used for calamari ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/3 "2018-01-09T19:41:55Z")
It looks to me like it actually could be a [chicken tongue.](http://www.poultrymed.ir/atlases/avian-atlas/sites/agilestaging.library.cornell.edu.avian-atlas/files/avian_atlas_assets/pharynx1%20x750.jpg) The long thin projections on either side are part of the hyoid apparatus. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/4 "2018-01-09T20:47:32Z")
Could be. Chicken and duck tongues are available in the freezer section of my local Chinese supermarket. I haven’t got around to trying them yet. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/5 "2018-01-09T21:26:26Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It looks to me like it actually could be a [chicken tongue.](http://www.poultrymed.ir/atlases/avian-atlas/sites/agilestaging.library.cornell.edu.avian-atlas/files/avian_atlas_assets/pharynx1%20x750.jpg) The long thin projections on either side are part of the hyoid apparatus. Well, that’s certainly Geiger-esque. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/6 "2018-01-09T21:35:48Z")
Chickens have tongues. Just no lips or assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/7 "2018-01-10T16:48:47Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Could be. Chicken and duck tongues are available in the freezer section of my local Chinese supermarket. I haven’t got around to trying them yet. No one is gonna point out the post/username combo on this one? heh. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/8 "2018-01-10T17:29:57Z")
Well, “yet” was specified. In the fullness of time… ---
**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:** [January 10, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-chicken-tongue-in-this-video/806264/9 "2018-01-10T19:45:32Z")
In Soviet Russia, Chicken tongue tastes YOU! (Something like that)