Blackbirds?

Post by **PeteC** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:02 pm

I've just spotted these, deep frozen at Carrefour. Is this a British dish? What do you do with these things? 4 & 20 blackbirds baked into a pie?

Pete

Post by **STEVE G** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:39 pm

Pete, thats got nothing to do with us; Carrefour is French, and every true Englishman knows that you can't get a decent meal between Dover and Suez!

Post by **PeteC** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:12 pm

LOL! The French are hardly represented at all here in pattaya, but it could well be they stock it for French restaurants? No clue. I spotted them as the raw flesh is actually black. My eyes then went to the label, and there it was in English and Thai. I don't know if imported or local Thai blackbirds. Pete

Post by **Nereus** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:55 pm

prcscct wrote:LOL! The French are hardly represented at all here in pattaya, but it could well be they stock it for French restaurants? No clue. I spotted them as the raw flesh is actually black. My eyes then went to the label, and there it was in English and Thai. I don't know if imported or local Thai blackbirds. Pete

Pete,
Are you sure they are not just small black chickens? The meat is actually black on these things---revolting!. I have seen them in Bangkok at a supermarket recently, it may have been Carrefor. First time I saw them was 20 years ago in Had Yai, my then girlfriend, later to become my wife, had one in a bowl of soup. The very first condition of our marriage was that she never ever ate another one in front of me!

Cheers.

Post by **PeteC** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:10 pm

Nereus wrote:Pete, Are you sure they are not just small black chickens? The meat is actually black on these things---revolting!. I have seen them in Bangkok at a supermarket recently, it may have been Carrefor. First time I saw them was 20 years ago in Had Yai, my then girlfriend, later to become my wife, had one in a bowl of soup. The very first condition of our marriage was that she never ever ate another one in front of me! Cheers.

Well, the label says 'blackbird' not black chicken so again no clue. They're about the size of a Cornish game hen, plus about 20%

I hope they're not crow if local Thai birds as that's about the only blackbirds I've seen here. You know what they say about "eating crow"!

Pete

Post by **Big Boy** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:37 pm

prcscct wrote:

You know what they say about "eating crow"!

No..........................what do they say?

By the way, I've just mentioned the blackbirds to my wife - she pulled a contorted face and said, "Ughh, they stink."

Post by **PeteC** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:36 pm

Here we go. Pete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_eat_boiled_crow

Post by **Big Boy** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:33 pm

Thanks Pete.

I'd never heard that term used before - must be an Americanism.

Post by **richard** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:13 pm

seen them eating something in Issan that resembled a black fleshed bird

The eyes were the speciality

Post by **dr dave soul monsta** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:54 pm

Jaime where are you when something needs sampling ?

Post by **Nomad** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:29 am

Most of the super markets carry them, they are chicken with black skin and meat. it is a normal Thai meal either barbeque (gai dum yan) or made into soup(tom gai dum). You have probaly eaten it if you have eaten Thai noodle soup.

elem · Post by **elem** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:33 pm

Thanks for the explanation, Nomad ..

Post by **FutureResident** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:10 am

Nomad wrote:Most of the super markets carry them, they are chicken with black skin and meat. it is a normal Thai meal either barbeque (gai dum yan) or made into soup(tom gai dum). You have probaly eaten it if you have eaten Thai noodle soup.

Do you call them "chocolate chicken" and woudl that be Tom Yum chocolate? For me, I've never eaten a thing in thailand that was black.....Except for drinking a tall Irish Pint but that is really brown. (sorry to the micks on board here)