It’s always a crapshoot to eat chicken you haven’t cooked yourself and wonder exactly which bizarre and unmentionable parts of the bird you might be eating, even though whichever deep-fried, golden hunk of deliciousness is labeled with the familiar “leg,” “breast,” etc. Sometimes the mystery is part of the rugged gustatory experience, but no one really wants to know what gnarled poultry bits are secretly lurking in their three-piece dinner.
Dexter Kruger, a retired cattle rancher and Australia’s oldest man at over 124 days past his 111th birthday as of this past week, is here to set us straight about consuming odd and quivering chicken bits.
via HuffPo:
Kruger told Australian Broadcasting Corp. in an interview at his nursing home in the rural Queensland state town of Roma days before the milestone that a weekly poultry delicacy had contributed to his longevity.
“Chicken brains. You know, chickens have a head. And in there, there’s a brain. And they are delicious little things,” Kruger said. “There’s only one little bite.”
Dexter must have seen a lot of rogue animal bits during his cattle-ranching days, and that life toughens you right up, so digging into the head of a chicken for the rare delicacy of its main control panel wouldn’t cause him to blink an eye.
I’m pretty sure most of the rest of us are blinking right now, but we can only dream of achieving his longevity, and maybe opening our minds (sorry) to which meat bits we consume that could pad our lives with a few more years. HuffPo again:
Kruger’s 74-year-old son Greg credits his father’s simple Outback lifestyle for his long life.
Nursing home manger [sic] Melanie Calvert said Kruger, who is writing his autobiography, was “probably one of the sharpest residents here.”
“His memory is amazing for a 111-year-old,” Calvert said.
John Taylor, a founder of The Australian Book of Records, confirmed that Kruger had become the oldest-ever Australian man.
The oldest-ever verified Australian was Christina Cook, who died in 2002 aged 114 years and 148 days.
It’s likely that living an active physical life outdoors has been the major contributor to his 100-plus years on this planet, but for our lazy indoor asses, it’s probably easier to just ask a friendly butcher if they have any chicken brains for sale.
Here is Dexter to tell us his longevity secrets, and I’m surprised no one asked him how he’d gone that long without succumbing to any of Australia’s lethal beasts:
Pic: YouTube