What did you have for lunch today?

This was part of my lunch today!  We ate at a Japanese Teppanyaki place, and like most of the other restaurants we’ve been to, they don’t have the Western concept of “cuts of meat.”  Especially with chicken!  So they just start with a whole (de-feathered and usually gutted, thankfully) chicken, chop it up into bite-size pieces, and into the pan it goes.  It took me a while to figure out exactly which part this was.  But it looked vaguely familiar to me.  Finally, after further inspection, a little awe at the precision of the cut, and a brief remembrance of Surdez’ Anatomy class and K-State’s Poultry Science, I was able to identify some key parts, which I have diagrammed for your viewing pleasure below.  Who knew what other parts I had already eaten, so I had a little fun with Kristi, and on the next bite satisfactorily told her, “Um-Umm,  I think that may have been the other end!”