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RoadXYZ
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Oct 14, 2014

What are they called ? those small chickens from years ago

We used to go to the meat market or super market and get a whole small chicken which was baked, and they were so small that a whole one was considered size of serving sometimes was for 1 or 2 people. ...
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Francesca_Knowl
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Oct 14, 2014
My Mother called them "Rock hens"- short for the original Rock Cornish, I think.

I'll never forget the Thanksgiving where she first served them up-every single one of us got OUR VERY OWN bird. And there were ten people in the family!

That experience remains the height of luxury/excess to me.

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