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Is it okay to say 'chicken chest' when talking about chicken meat?
 

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Chicken breast.

Breast, wing, thigh, leg (or drumstick)
 

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Or, for those who are offended by the word 'breast' (yes, there really are some such people), it's 'white meat'.
 

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Was bosom actually used once upon a time in some circles instead of breast or is that an urban myth?
 

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Or, for those who are offended by the word 'breast' (yes, there really are some such people), it's 'white meat'.

SERIOUSLY?! OK, there's something else I never knew. Obviously, I knew about "white meat" but I never considered the fact that anyone could be offended by the word "breast". Goodness, what a bizarre world we live in.
 

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In this case, the only bizarre thing is how far people will stretch Political Correctness ....
 

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In this case, the only bizarre thing is how far people will stretch Political Correctness ....
Ah, but this was long before political correcness had been invented, at a time when tables and chairs had to have 'limbs' not 'legs' in polite society. Even in the early twentieth century, at a performance of Synge's playboy of the Western World', the "audience broke up in disorder at the word 'shift'" ( woman's undergarment) (Free Term Papers on Consider The Position Of Women In J.M.Synge)
 
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