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Show OQKHK0XCKKKXK)K0WK0 How It Started By Jean Newton 1 . . ttOOOOOOOX)KK0000XKKXK)0 EATING A "DRUMSTICK" WHEN chicken 13 being served and there is a small boy at the table there is almost certain to be a demand de-mand for the "drumstick." If he is a polite little boy he waits, of course, to be consulted, or takes what is given to him. But that the drumstick is the universal preference in matters of poultry, of the small boy, is well known. To understand the use of this term to describe the lower leg joint 0' poultry, we have but to see the old type of contraption used for beating a drum. This was a stick with a balllike ball-like end with which the drum was struck. Although in most instances we see the tapering sticks used In performance today, the ball end type is by no means obsolete. And it is because of its similarity in shape to the joint with its stick-like bone on which the meat broadens out to a heavily rounded end. that the drumstick drum-stick has bequeathed its name to the parlance of the table. U3. by BU Syndicate.) |