On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:24:32 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>
>There's nothing ersatz about a chicken banh mi. Even the most
>authentic shops supply it. The problem with chicken is, Viet's prefer
>to leave the gristle in! The Viet cow orker that introduced me to
>banh mi's preferred chicken and the first one I ordered was chicken.
>I about gagged on a big ol' gnarly chunk of gristle and was going to
>return it until my friend told me that's normal.

Huh? I've never had that experience. Maybe they take out the tendons
for round eyed customers; maybe your friend ordered it and you got the
"ethnic" version. I really dunno. Mine seems to be thigh, not leg
meat.

>I've been a pork fan ever since.

Hubby prefers pork too... but he always has, he started off with pork.
I've tried it and prefer the flavor of chicken.


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