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Query:

Re: How many 'breasts' do chickens have?

Date: Tue May 2 20:34:16 2000
Posted By: Erin Cram, Grad student, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of CA, Berkeley
Area of science: Anatomy
ID: 956794819.An
Message:

Q: Does a chicken have one or two breasts? 

A: A chicken has one anatomical breast. Not only do we eat them split, we buy 
them that way. When our eyes detect two pieces, it's an easy leap to human 
anatomy and to conclude that a package of 4 chicken breast pieces contains 4 
chicken breasts (which are really 2 cut in half). So common is this confusion 
that the mistaken amount is now accepted usage in retail chicken dialect. That's 
why the recipes here have shelved the clumsy "2 chicken breast halves" and opted 
for "2 chicken breasts." When a whole breast is requested the term is "1 whole 
chicken breast, unsplit."

Quoted from:http://www.sallys-place.com/food/columns/corn/chicken_breasts.htm

As for "zoology", I pronounce it ZOO ol uh gee, but according to the dictionary,
ZOE ol uh gee is correct.



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