Friday, January 1, 2010

Chicken #1: Red Jungle Fowl

I thought I'd start things off with the O.G. of chickens, the bird that is thought to be (one of) the ancestor(s) of chickens. The red jungle fowl is a wild bird found in Southern and Southeast Asia, and has the distinction of being rad as hell:



That's right: before we even domesticated them, this chicken was walking around Indian jungles looking like a total bad-ass. I'm not sure how you can improve on something that is this awesome right out of the box, but once we figured out these things were tasty, there was no stopping us

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