# Would you be too chicken to try this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314 "2017-03-16T16:13:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/21 "2017-03-16T18:42:41Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > From the link in the OP: > > Sure, I’ll try it **Czarcasm** , but you’re buying 🙂 At that price, I might be willing to take a small nibble, swish it in my mouth just a bit, spit it into a small bowl and make a comment about the bouquet. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/22 "2017-03-16T18:52:34Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > At that price, I might be willing to take a small nibble, swish it in my mouth just a bit, spit it into a small bowl and make a comment about the bouquet. “Hints of ‘plum’ and ‘toast.’” ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/23 "2017-03-16T18:55:34Z")
Try? Yes. Regularly buy or eat it? Not until it is both better and cheaper than the real thing. And chicken is cheap as hell, so I don’t imagine I’ll be eating vat meat with any regularity any time soon. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/24 "2017-03-16T19:01:06Z")
I’d have no problem trying it. My understanding is that lab grown meat, which generally has zero fat, is not anywhere near as tasty as the real thing, but it’s not poison. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/25 "2017-03-16T19:01:49Z")
Vegetarian meat alternatives are frequently more expensive than real meat, and gluten free things are more expensive than regular, so I’d be willing to pay more. Not a ridiculous amount more. I’d want to encourage the industry. I may eat meat, but I’m not totally heartless about how animals are raised, and wouldn’t mind seeing a decline in regular meat farming. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/26 "2017-03-16T19:29:51Z")
I have tried a lot of squirrely food items (including actual squirrel) and would certainly give it a go. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/27 "2017-03-16T19:38:20Z")
Do I have to be first? ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/28 "2017-03-16T19:57:31Z")
Hmmm… How about lab grown cock? ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/29 "2017-03-16T20:10:04Z")
What a revolting idea. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/30 "2017-03-16T20:27:13Z")
Is it from Bristol? ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/31 "2017-03-16T20:41:41Z")
I’d try it. Although I wouldn’t expect it to be very good, for reasons already stated. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Sure, I’d try lab-grown chicken. > > What about chicken-fried lab rat? I’d try that too. I remember an experiment where I needed to measure the total fat content of mouse carcasses. It was supposedly easier to get complete extraction if they were cooked first, to break down the tissue. So, being lazy, I put each carcass in a jar and ran them through the autoclave after-hours. They smelled quite tasty.\* - no, I did not taste them - god knows what kinds of toxic chemicals had previously been in the lab glassware, and plus it would have wrecked the experiment. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/32 "2017-03-16T21:50:54Z")
Oh, of course I’d try it. Fried chicken is my jam. Fried not-chicken could be my jam in my old age. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/33 "2017-03-16T23:06:46Z")
I’d eat vat-grown human meat. I’d eat vat-grown human meat cultured from my own cells. Bring on the [ChickieNobs](http://remotestorage.blogspot.com/2010/07/margaret-atwoods-chickienobs.html). Also, follow the link in **Excalibre** ’s quote in my sig. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/34 "2017-03-17T04:27:56Z")
If somebody else is eating it, I’ll try it too. I’ve eaten street-market food in over a hundred countries. Never had anything I didn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314/35 "2017-03-17T04:44:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > In Iain Banks’ short story The State of the Art, aliens observing Earth surreptitiously collect cell samples from some of the worst people in the world and grow and eat tissue cultures from them to show disrespect. [reads snipper] _Ian Smith?_ What, were they fresh out of Crock Pot Pol, Laban Immo Bokassa, and Prairie-Style John Diefenburgers? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-too-chicken-to-try-this/782314.md?page=1)