TASTES LIKE CHICKEN by Stephen Bly
The first time I ever ate roasted rattlesnake meat, some timid soul asked me, “What does it taste like?” “Why, it tastes like chicken,” I reported.
Then a few years later I had opportunity to eat alligator tail. “What’s it taste like?” someone asked. “Tastes sort of like chicken,” I answered.
Three Meat Choices
In the Old West you had three main choices. You could eat beef, pork, or chicken. No cowboy would ever purposely eat lamb, so everything else they tried tasted like one of those three meats. If it looked fairly white, they’d certainly say it tastes like chicken.
Of course, on the range real fried chicken tended to be a rare item. Usual fare included biscuits, beans and bacon or salt pork. The crew getting hungry for real chicken caused a few culinary innovations. Every once in a while old Cookie would roll up the bacon, flour, and batter, fry it up and they all called it fried chicken.
Stretching It a Bit
If a pilgrim wandered into camp to join the wagon crew, they’d watch as he bit into a piece of batter and fried bacon. “What is this?” he’d usually ask. One of the cowboys would explain, “Shoot, this is the best fried chicken for 300 miles.”
You know, if we’re desperate enough, we’ll call any kind of phony stuff the real thing. Now, doing that with your supper out on the range doesn’t really hurt anyone. However, calling some phony stuff real can turn into a serious problem in other areas of life.
False Religion
Plenty of folks around today try to get us to accept false beliefs as real ones.
The Bible says, “If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing” (1 Timothy 6:3).
These are the ones always trying to convince us that what they have is the real faith. They use all the words in the dressings of the Christian faith, trying to get us to think that they have the authentic faith.
Why, this is just like saying, “this sounds just like Christianity.” Well, bacon ain’t chicken, never was and never will be. What the false teachers are trying to peddle isn’t Christianity, no matter how much flour and batter they dip it in.
Stephen Bly
Circa 1995
Rattlesnake Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay
Chicken Fried Bacon Image by Seowoo Lee from Pixabay
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