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Query:

Subject: Do ducks have tongues? Is that really what duck tongue is in Chinese rest?

Date: Tue Jul 4 20:54:24 2000
Posted by James Edmunds
Grade level: nonaligned School: N/A
City: New Iberia State/Province: LA Country: USA
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 962758464.Zo
Message:

I have been to a couple of Shanghai restaurants in NY serving something 
they call "Duck Tongue," but which has bones in it. My wife thinks they 
are really sparrow necks, which do have bones, and asserts that duck 
tongues have no bones. My theory is that the restaurateurs call this 
dish "duck tongue" because it's name in something like Dok Tong, and so it 
sort of sounds like duck tongue. And that they stick with that because 
Duck Tongue sounds more appetizing than whatever "Duck Tongue" _really_ is.


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