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Caspar · **10-28-2015, 07:51 PM**

(10-28-2015, 04:24 PM)Riven Wrote:
(10-28-2015, 04:11 PM)SicketySix Wrote: *hugs his chocobo tightly*

No no eat fluffy-kins!!
I'M SORRY, I FELT I HAD TO ASK.Â I WOULD NOT EAT A CHOCOBO, NOR ANY OF MY CHARACTERS. *pets choco chick like a Bond villian*

It's a question I've had to think about myself, as Virara considers her chocobo an emergency food supply and his name refers to a type of fried chicken wing. She often needs to be discouraged from eating him: fortunately he is ill-natured and has little trouble doing that himself.

SicketySix · **10-28-2015, 07:57 PM**

*whips out a knife*

You sick Bastards stay away from my fluffy-kins!

Caspar · **10-28-2015, 08:16 PM**

(10-28-2015, 07:12 PM)McBeefâ„¢ Wrote: Seconding the Horse comparison.

I always thought Dodo's were the poultry of choice.

And actual conventional chicken exists too. We don't know how chocobo compares to chicken and duck (Or for that matter, dodo, still find it hilarious that what is extinct in our world is common and large enough to be a pest in theirs.) in flavor and texture, but I personally imagine a chocobo chick tastes similar to a chicken, while full grown chocobo is robust and hearty in a way that approaches red meat, but still has texture typical of poultry. Like ostrich meat, maybe... Still, I can't imagine many people eating it. It'd be frowned upon like eating dog almost.

SicketySix · **10-28-2015, 08:20 PM**

As a hunter, I can say with experience most birds do have generally the same taste, but yet different at the same time

TK Hikaru · **10-28-2015, 09:21 PM**

While I imagine some people do eat chocobo meat, I feel like it's done in areas where other sources of meat are hard to find. Like how in some foreign countries, horse is a potential choice of meat.

That said, with dodos, chickens, ducks and buzzards, I think most Spoken have enough poultry to satisfy their urges without turning their forks to their beloved chocobos.

Caspar · **10-28-2015, 09:42 PM**

Raptor meat may also qualify as poultry, or similar in flavor profile...
Yeah, I think it would be an alternative meat. Eorzea is full of edible animals for protein and none so far are described as being unpalatable, other than some of the monsters near outposts like Camp Cloudtop and Whitebrim IIRC.

Blue · **10-29-2015, 06:51 AM**

(10-28-2015, 01:49 PM)Nodem Wrote:
(10-28-2015, 01:30 PM)Riven Wrote: I have to ask this. >.> Are they considered to be a source of food as well as transport in lore? <.<

Tough question as it's yes and no. You can eat them, and people have done so. It's frowned upon though in certain regions such as around Tailfeather where nature is to be respected. You'd also be eating into your profits. Pun intended Though I imagine they taste like chicken.

Actually, that is the only place so far where chocobo cuisine is confirmed, as I mentioned in my first post. Tailfeather lives of hunting, and not all chocobos captured turn up to be fitting for the Ishgardian market. Most of hunters live of what they capture and cannot sell.

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