More Fowl Talk for the Holidays
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The terms "white meat" and "dark meat" are used so commonly today that most people forget that they started out as euphemisms, popularized by our Victorian ancestors, who shied away from uttering the dreaded word breast.
Hugh Rawson | Posted 05.25.2011