Pickles by Brian Crane for January 13, 2025

If the chicken isn’t dead, it’s poultry in motion.

Opal’s pot stirring has resulted in circular reasoning

Like cow meat is beef.

Next time you go buy a package of chicken legs, find one of the younger grocery workers and ask if the package is the front legs or the back legs.

That sounds like something I would say (in the 4th panel).

Nelson now ask Opal what came first : The Chicken or The Egg ;-)

As clear as poultry!

Neither Opal nor Earl are the sharpest knives in the drawer.

I’ve never heard anyone say that chicken is not meat. Fish is the debatable one. I think of fish as meat, but many people say that it isn’t meat.

But do you want to eat fowl meat?

Opal cooking in her bunny slippers!

Sounds like my wife.

I always thought that “poultry” was a synonym for ‘fowl’, not for ‘meat’.

Fish have bones and bleed, but it’s not meat but seafood?

What happened to GOOGLE..???

Animal flesh is meat, bird flesh is poultry… profiling most fowl!!

Total fail: Makes no sense and is not amusing.

Just curious: will Nelson come back and FISH for more answers??

Opal should know that Nelson is just a kid and , according to his understanding at that age, meat is just meat no matter if it’s chicken, beef, or any species. Why get technical with a six or seven year old.

Chicken is poultry, but is poultry chicken?

So, according to Opal, chicken = poultry, and poultry = chicken meat, but chicken does not = chicken meat. I never learned that in algebra.

my head hurts. :\

It’s all arbitrary nomenclature!

all meat is flesh, however not all flesh is meat.

Growing up our clan was ruled by a Victorian great aunt. For us it was white meat, not breast meat, and it was dark meat or drumstick, not leg or thigh. I nearly got my mouth washed out with soap for saying the word, “belly.” I was four.

Poultry is meat, answer the kid’s question!

Chicken is meat … but apparently Catholics believe that fish meat is NOT meat. I guess they think that fish are plants … at least during Lent.

Actually, the original meaning of ‘meat’ was ‘solid food’, as in ‘meat and drink’, or ‘funeral meats’, or ‘nut meats’. In the 1300s, the meaning began to narrow to refer, in general, to animal flesh used for food.

Ironically, now there are calls to prohibit the use of ‘meat’ to apply to plant-based imitations or lab-grown products of animal origin…i.e., to prohibit the use of the word in its original sense.

With Opal and Earl, there’s always puzzeling answers for poor Nelson!

Poor kid is always confused

My earliest memory of my paternal grandmother was when she asked me to pick out a chicken for supper. I was about seven. and she had a dozen or so chickens in a fenced off pen. I picked one and she caught it and showed me why there was a hatchet always stuck in a stump at the corner of the yard. I got to be a part of the whole process of cleaning and feather plucking, but not cooking. That was her job.

Wow I love that

And the chicken industry insists on that definition to keep profits up.

Every vegetarian has been invited to her house for dinner at one time or another!

Chicken IS meat.

My head is spinning after reading that.

Next Opal can explain to Nelson why pork is the other white meat.

It actually IS meat.