  Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 231 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.248.14.37 |
On the Daily Love thread, someone mentioned "city chicken." At the risk of sounding ignorant (which, in this case, I am,) what the heck is that? I've seen and heard this term before. I have gathered that it is a description, not a brand name. Help me! I have learned that, for veery question posed, at least one of you has the answer. | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 232 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.248.14.37 |
I meant "every," dangit. | ||
Jjw Member Username: Jjw Post Number: 134 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 68.33.56.156 |
i know it has a skewer running through it and I think it was dipped in something. And... I don't think it was chicken. | ||
Jjw Member Username: Jjw Post Number: 135 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 68.33.56.156 |
http://www.coalregion.com/Reci pes/citychicken.htm ---this recipe sounds like it | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 233 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.248.14.37 |
Thank you, Jjw... anybody else? | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 760 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 68.40.119.216 |
It's pork on a stick. | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 3051 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.252.125.198 |
jjw's link is spot-on. It's especially popular at Polish restaurants. Why? I don't know. | ||
Tammypio Member Username: Tammypio Post Number: 69 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.34.177.91 |
It's pork and VEAL on a stick (like a shish-ka-bob skewer but smaller), breaded and pan-fried. A Polish food!!! Very good. My mother-in-law makes them all the time and they're my son's favorite. I'm not sure why they're called "city chicken" though. Anyone know?? | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 235 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.248.14.37 |
See? I knew you folks would not let me down. Got my answer in FOUR MINUTES. (Still, any further comments or info are welcomed... Hopefully, my question will not set off any hateful arguments or anti-social tirades...) | ||
Frank_c Member Username: Frank_c Post Number: 613 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Are you sure you guys live in Detroit? Old Detroit staple, everyone at city chicken even the Irish like me; we had a fine Polish butcher. I think there were so many polish butchers because the poles were starved for meat. | ||
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher Post Number: 55 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
City chicken is AWESOME!! Should try some!! It's also called Mock Chicken. They have some really good City Chicken at Joe's produce on 7 mile and Farmington Rd. I'm sure Eastern Market would have some tasty ones too! Just be sure to cook it all the way through....like mama says, be sure your oil is HOT! | ||
Missnmich Member Username: Missnmich Post Number: 522 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 24.32.180.75 |
We Germans had "City Chucken" also. There was a time (before Tyson and Conagra) that chicken was a delicacy. My mom was lucky, bacause her parents had friends on a farm who would give them a live chicken occasionally. My mother rode back to the city with it on the floor of the back seat, until they got home and my grandfather could kill it in the back yard. This was in Cleveland, but I'm sure Detroit was similar. Since chicken was scarce (hence the campaign promise "a chicken in every pot") city folk settled for veal and pork, bound up on a skewer to resemble a drumstick. A report from the great Ozark Egg Empire ... | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 291 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
City Chicken, or Mock Chicken, became popular during WWII, when chicken was hard to come by. The skewered pork and veal on a stick mocked a chicken leg. | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 3052 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.252.125.198 |
I love threads like this. Each person who posts apparently doesn't read a thing anybody else has put up. I think it's a metaphor for America. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 1002 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
Veal and pork cost more than chicken. So if chicken was scarce, it was because others were probably using it all up. Being Austrian, we had Schnitzel (veal) all the time, though. (Message edited by LivernoisYard on July 02, 2006) | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1313 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.60.143.186 |
City chicken is really good. There is a place in Hamtramck that makes really good city chicken. Superaygun knows the name of the place I cannot remember. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 292 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
Hamtramck Steve, When I wrote my post, Missnmich's post wasn't up yet. Don't make me come over there and kick your dupa. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2603 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.234.183.131 |
Scanning this thread I was about to define "city chicken" as slavic hillbilly food. H-steve's post shamed me into reading the previous posts a bit more closely and that link to coal region recipies hits it on the head. Re slavic hillbillies, once upon a time Detroit was crawling with two VERY distinct types. (1) offspring of first and second generation slavic american Detroiters who intermarried first generation appalachain white detroiters (mostly of ancient scots-irish and welsh descent) and (2) ~ second generation slavic americans whose family line came to Detroit for auto work via the appalachain coal fields. "city chicken" is the product of (2), maybe it goes back to the old country, maybe not. Yay Detroit and all it's subtlety and cultural depth hidden just beneath the seeming banality of meat on a stick! | ||
Atl_runner Member Username: Atl_runner Post Number: 1929 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.98.116.13 |
Not only that, some people phrase it a little different, or add something very subtle to the thread. Now I ask this. Do we want one answer to every post? I hope not. I miss city chicken. | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 3053 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.252.125.198 |
Atl, I'm going to use your positive outlook on every thread I read from now on. I like how diplomatic you are. "...add something very subtle to the thread." Some more subtle than others, I suppose. Although in this case, I'm trying to think of how you phrase "pork", "veal" and "chicken" differently. Ed, I wasn't singling you out. The unintentional comedy started before you. Rustic, I don't buy your assertions. There was an equally large group, probably larger than either of yours, of slavic people who came here without going through Appalachian coal country. This larger group could have just as easily been the source of city chicken. Just because the only link provided is from a coal country recipe book doesn't mean that culture is the source of the food. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 293 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
Steve, Your dupa is safe..........for now. | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 3054 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.252.125.198 |
As a humorous aside, I was looking through Google to see what I could find about city chicken history-wise . On the third page, there's a listing for "Chicken dating" on match.com. It wasn't what I thought. Turns out there's a city in Alaska named Chicken. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2604 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.234.183.131 |
H_Steve, absolutely there were the slavs who came to Detroit directly, (far and away the largest group of Detroits slavs). I am not familiar with city chicken being one of this groups delicacies tho. (btw that's why I made the "hillbilly" distinction in my post). maybe "city chicken" traces it's roots back to eastern europe maybe not ... also I thought it was called "city" chicken cuz country folk raised their own chickens, "city" folk couldn't. and no self-respecting "country" raised Polish, Ukranian, Slovack, Rusyn, etc. housewife ever really trusted storebought chicken. I'm probably wrong about this tho ... | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 584 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 71.10.61.35 |
You're all wrong because city chicken is what the hospital gives to frogs when they cut their legs off for frog legs at Three Star Barbeque in Hamtramck! So since they have not perfected bone transplants yet they inserts sticks into the transplanted pork and veal legs so the frogs can walk home. Livedog2 | ||
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher Post Number: 56 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 64.12.116.204 |
Dog, it took two or three reads of your post then I just burst out laughing. For just a fleeting second, I was wondering what the H you wre talking about frogs and leg transplants.....HAHAHAHAHA Cay ya imagine a frog with a cow leg?? | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 585 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 71.10.61.35 |
Take your pick! City Chicken:  Or Frog Legs  Livedog2 | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 3055 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.252.125.198 |
Rustic, city chicken is absolutely a treat for non-Appalachian slavic folk. It's all over Hamtramck in the grocery stores and restaurants. I doubt it's something they brought from Europe, because my Ukranian immigrant neighbors never heard of such a thing. | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 851 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.30.175 |
I love threads like this. Each person who posts apparently doesn't read a thing anybody else has put up. I think it's a metaphor for America. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2605 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.234.183.131 |
H-steve, I didn't know that, thanks! IMO there is a PA/WV/OH hillfolk tie to that treat. I'll stick to my etimology (sp?) of the term tho ... | ||
Angry_dad Member Username: Angry_dad Post Number: 70 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
City Chicken and Mock Chicken are 2 completely different things, one (Mock) is ground veal and pork while city is cubes. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 294 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
http://www.cooks.com/rec/searc h/0,1-00,mock_chicken_legs,FF. html | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2608 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
http://www.polishnews.com/polo nica/ask5.shtml Q: My grandmother, who arrived from in Detroit Poland in 1912, used to make city chicken, but I cannot find the recipe in any Polish cookbook. Is it known by some other name? ... I contend that this is because it is from the weird little subset of Poles, Slovacks etc. whose familial line passed through the appalachain coal country for a generation or so. Hey maybe I'm wrong ... Another link: http://everything2.com/?node_i d=1257989 Various sources listed [city chicken] as Polish, Russian, and German in origin, but also called it a coal miner recipe. The coal towns of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan [sic], and more were almost exclusively populated by immigrants from those ethnic groups. Another source claimed the name came from when chicken was very expensive to ship (before refrigerated rail cars), and so city restaurants would make "faux chicken" or pass off their mystery meat as "city chicken." Given the fact that [the town the author was in in Ohio] was packed with Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox churches, and the names on almost every business were Slavic or Teutonic in origin, I figure the real story is somewhere in the middle. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 66 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.60.177.56 |
Back when people had lots of kids, city chicken was a cheap way to feed them all. My husband still craves it now and again. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2609 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog -O54JwLMmc687bIwXLnes6xVymem6? p=605 The history of City chicken (aka mock chicken) is relatively easy to trace. The definative origin of the name continues to elude food historians. What we do know? This recipe calls western Pennsylvania "home." | ||
Mtm Member Username: Mtm Post Number: 15 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11 |
Livedog2, The Polish Heritage Cookbook by Robert and Maria Strybel you show above is one of the absolute BEST. Not only do I have and use it but also gave copies to my late Mom and my Brother who makes a MEAN mushroom pierog for Christmas Eve. Smaczne! And, yes city checken is a replacement for chicken which was WAY too expensive during the Depression. But believe it or not, when Mom was growing up in Hamtramck in the 20's and 30's they kept a few chickens out back though Mom hated to slaughter them. Years later, my Folks would still get fresh slaughtered chickens from a butcher in Hamt. whenever Mom made chicken soup. She always had them include the feet because she thought they added to the flavor and nutrition of the soup. She and Dad would gnaw on them, too! We kids mostly just played with them - making them dance on the countertop. | ||
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher Post Number: 60 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 64.12.116.204 |
Just FYI. There is a Czech & Slavic Festival going on in Dearborn Heights July 22nd and 23rd. Sure to have city chicken there....... | ||
Morena Member Username: Morena Post Number: 439 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 216.45.2.138 |
I prefer a murder burger (White Castle). | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2384 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.105.114 |
I prefer "Kung-Pao" Chicken (Kung-Pao is Mandarin Chinese for "tastes like")....  | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 586 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 71.10.61.35 |
It figures! Livedog2 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4044 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Gistok and Mtm have just given us wonderful posts. Thanks for the relief. This is really an interesting thread. To jjaba's knowledge, there's no such thing as "City Pastrami." Through poverty and wealth, Detroit Jews have enjoyed their pastrami. Don't trust "turkey" pastrami, it must be something invented on the Eastside. jjaba, eating a Woody Allen with Russian dressing. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4045 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
jjaba's Top 10 Detroit City foods. 10. City chitterlings. 9. City turkey pastrami. 8. Grosse Pointe City Cosmpolitans. 7. Two on one City Coney Dogs. 6. City Half-sour Dill Pickles. 5. City Kowalski Blood Sausage. 4. City Sanders Hot Fudge Puffs with Butter Pecan. 3. City Brownie Root Beer. 2. Hamtramck City Dill Pickle Soup. 1. Frankenmeuth City Fried Chicken, all you can eat. jjaba, drinking his City Egg Cream. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2613 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.123.28 |
jjaba ... not too fast re pastrami ... on Iron Chef the other night a chef rolled out pastrami spices onto plastic sheets and wrapped them around lamb chops to make "pastrami"-ed lamb chops. jjaba, I agree with you re this thread ... it took lots of different ingredients to make Detroit what it is ... even Polish tv-tray food reflects the subtle and circuitious routes followed by boomtown Detroit's migrant labor force. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4047 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Rustic, you've just given pastrami a bad name. Please say your post 2613 is some kinda private joke. jjaba, Gimme a pastrami on swiss with Russian dressing for the long train ride home. | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 3480 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.74.6.86 |
I'll agree with Angry_dad. At least in Detroit, city chicken and mock chicken are two separate things. In many old-time butcheries, they would be in the display cases side by side. Personally, I love city chicken cooked correctly, mock chicken, I can't stand that texture of those mock drumsticks, yuck. | ||
Mountainman Member Username: Mountainman Post Number: 87 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 153.90.110.121 |
Man, I'm in Montana. I really want some City Chicken right now. Now I'm hungry. | ||
Stephanie Member Username: Stephanie Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 68.43.106.62 |
Howdy folks! I'd just like to say that my favorite place for a plate of city chicken(with a side of sauerkraut and mashed potatoes) is Polonia on Yemans in Hamtramck. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it. | ||
Tortfeasor Member Username: Tortfeasor Post Number: 462 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.209.146.160 |
Answer -- It is a fantastic, slavic treat, also popular on the west side of Cleveland. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2615 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.234.183.131 |
jjaba, I kid you not ... pastrami'ed lamb chops ... I saw it with my own eyes ... | ||
Royaloakian Member Username: Royaloakian Post Number: 73 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
City Chicken will be available at the Polish Festival July 14 15 16 at Freedom Hill the folks who sponsor the festival at the American Polish Century Club are getting ready to make homemade city chicken (golabki and pierogi too. Mmmmm | ||
Mtm Member Username: Mtm Post Number: 17 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11 |
Mountainman, I did quite a search and can't find anyplace that can ship you a load of city chicken. I DID, though, find an old Detroit News article on Polish cuisine that also has a link to a city chicken recipe that looks pretty good: http://www.detnews.com/2005/ea tsdrinks/0510/27/G04-362427.ht m. It appears to be from the Strybel cookbook that I already recommended. Sorry if you have to make them from scratch but at least that's an option for you. Good Luck! | ||
Mtm Member Username: Mtm Post Number: 18 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11 |
... as an aside, in the course of my search, I came across this ad that was in the window of Kosinski Hardware. Talk about truth in advertising!   | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 773 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 199.178.193.5 |
PS, if any of you want to make it at home, most grocery stores in this area sell it out of the meat case already skewered and floured. (Does anyone cook at home anymore?) | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6269 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125 |
Gee, Gamblingman, I thought for sure that "city chicken" would mean something else entirely to you. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 590 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
It always comes down to that, doesn't it? Livedog2 | ||
Mtm Member Username: Mtm Post Number: 19 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11 |
YES!! People still do cook at home. I'm pretty good with golobki and my brother is GREAT with mushroom pierogi. (One minor editorial: It makes me nuts (often not difficult) when people put and s on the end of pierogi! pierogi is already plural; singular, it's pierog. similarl for paczki day. if you only have one, its a paczek. "paczkis" is like saying donutses.) | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 1021 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
That's newses to me. | ||
Mtm Member Username: Mtm Post Number: 20 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11 |
I always bring a couple dozen really GREAT paczki in to treat the office on Paczki Day and folks here have learned that, if they want one, they need to ask for it correctly. The education process is slow... | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 774 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 199.178.193.5 |
Jeff, I like my meat skewered and floured. | ||
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 690 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 216.223.168.132 |
There is an annual pierogi festival coming up in a few weeks in Whiting, IN. It's a big deal in NW Indiana. http://www.pierogifest.net/ | ||
Royaloakian Member Username: Royaloakian Post Number: 74 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 64.12.116.204 |
Even better locally is the Sweetest Heart of Mary (on Russell in Detroit) Pierogi Festival August 12 and 13. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 597 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Good call Royaloakian. And, the SH of M Pierogi Festival is the best!  Livedog2 | ||
Bibs Member Username: Bibs Post Number: 517 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 205.188.116.137 |
Jack Brandenburg is city chicken! | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 599 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Let's skewer and fry him if he's not too tough!  Livedog2 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4053 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Rustic, jjaba accepts your new explanation. Pastrami-wrapped lamb chops has gotta be Eastside. You won't see that anywhere over here. jjaba, Westsider. | ||
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 694 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 216.223.168.132 |
Jjaba, Wolfgang Puck's restaurant at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas serves a lamb pastrami sandwich! | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2623 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
jjaba nope not pastrami wrapped lamb chops, lamb chops coated with pastrami spices to approximate the pastrami flavor into the chop itself. read it and weep. | ||
Kova Member Username: Kova Post Number: 33 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 68.255.246.21 |
Rustic, can you tell me anything about the word "slaboon"? My gramps was telling me about it, said it was sort of the derogatory name the slovaks used for themselves. He grew up on the eastside. and city chicken, grew up with it at St. Chris on Tireman's september fest | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4056 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Rustic, Top Ten Places for pastrami spices. 10. Pastrami Dill pickles. 9. pastrami ice cream sundae. 8. Pastrami spices on a steak. 7. spicey buffalo burgers. 6. Pastrami Cokes. 5. Pastrami Vernor's Float. 4. Cheesey pastrami fries. 3. Chopped pastrami liver. 2. Pastrami egg salad on rye. 1. On a Jackie Gleason #4, pastrami and swiss with russian dressing on twice-baked rye. jjaba. | ||
Outoftowner Member Username: Outoftowner Post Number: 134 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.223.214.2 |
I sure like threads like this. Each person who posts apparently doesn't read what anybody else has put up. Maybe it's a metaphor for America. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 603 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Who cares what anyone else says anyway because everything everyone says is for themselves anyway. Livedog2 | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2626 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
Kova, sorry not familiar with that term "slaboon". Sounds right tho, switch the b for a v and it becomes slavoon which sounds about right since "slavonic" is sometimes used instead of "slavic" to describe (some?) of the slavic peoples and languages --- slavic --> slav ... so slavonic --->> slavoon? Maybe? I dunno ... for what it is worth check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S lavonic_languages Look at all the different Slavic languages spoken. Metro Detroit probably has a good number of people whose roots go back to just about every one of these places. In addition you have regional dialects and also subsets of groups who arrived in Detroit from other areas (e.g. the coal country ones I keep harping about). All of this stuff got mixed up and jumbled together and has now been somewhat homogenized ... Note that in additon to the Slavs those exact same places in eastern and central eurpoe also had significant Jewish, German, Hun, Turk, Romanian and Gypsy populations mixed in and smaller Italian, Armenian, Greek etc etc populations. (Message edited by rustic on July 06, 2006) | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2627 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245 |
 from wikipedia link above | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2628 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245 |
Yay Detroit! | ||
Mtm Member Username: Mtm Post Number: 21 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11 |
Outoftowner, Didn't you post the exact same messge: "I sure like threads like this. Each person who posts apparently doesn't read what anybody else has put up. Maybe it's a metaphor for America." in another string? I'm having a real deja vu moment here because it sounds SO familiar and I think I've seen it multiple times. Well, if so, I guess its easy to just copy and paste your old messages over again than to really participate in the discussion. | ||
Messykitty Member Username: Messykitty Post Number: 10 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.21.198.33 |
Anybody have the recipe for City Chicken? Did it originate in Poland? Or somewhere else? Is it the same as Mock Chicken? Any City Chicken memories out there? | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 3488 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.248.81.155 |
See above^^^^^^ All your questions will be answered | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 301 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
Rustic, Is that a map of City Chicken consumption by country? | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2645 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245 |
Ed_golick, nope try this one  http://www.censusmapper.com/Sago_coal.htm | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 778 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 199.178.193.5 |
My father's parents immigrated to Youngstown Ohio (just after the turn of the century), primarily to work at the steel mills. Not much work, however, until WWII.....They were Chech and Hungarian. PS, We ate city chicken at least once a week growing up, it was my father's favorite dish....that and fried bologna or fried spam....pretty much a toss-up between those two. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 303 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
Fried bologna with eggs. Now that's good eatin! | ||
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey Post Number: 72 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 63.102.87.27 |
OK. This thread topic baffled me at first. I always thoiught "City Chicken" was a nickname for bum's eating fried pidgeon on a stick on the streets (Think MAD Magazine). But after seeing this thread the other day, I happened into a meat market at South Blvd. and Squirrel Road in Rochester hills area and they had "city chicken" for sale. It was chunks of meat on a stick (shish kebob style). Probably chicken and steak, but I didn't ask. So, I guess that is what it is. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 305 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
Where's a bum gonna get a deep fryer? Mmmmmmmm.....squirrel. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2659 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
road squirrel .... even better! | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 853 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.20.97 |
Outoftowner, Didn't you post the exact same messge: "I sure like threads like this. Each person who posts apparently doesn't read what anybody else has put up. Maybe it's a metaphor for America." in another string? I'm having a real deja vu moment here because it sounds SO familiar and I think I've seen it multiple times. Well, if so, I guess its easy to just copy and paste your old messages over again than to really participate in the discussion. | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 22 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 66.184.3.44 |
As a Polish-American (with some, um...German Blood in me even though I shun it!), city-chicken is a delicacy that was and forever will be enjoyed at my household's table every Christmas Eve. As far as Sweetest Heart of Mary's pierogi(pe r'oggie) festival, trust me as a perishioner of St. Josephat's Church which shares Fr.Mark with Sweetest Heart of Mary's, it is well worth your time should you crave some Polish Culture. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 724 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Heading to Krakus Polish Restaurant on Jos Campau just North of Carpenter that’s on the Detroit side of the Hamtramck border, for , mashed potatoes, gravy, sauerkraut, rye bread 'n butter, cucumbers and onions with sour cream and kielbasa soup with “my tribe!”  Livedog2 |
