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Who wants to have a go at stealing 2legs' bacon?
Sorry to be all serious for a minute, but apparently chicken meat is meant to be brown. If you talk to old farmers who ate their own chickens, they say the meat wasn't pale like it is now 
Who wants to have a go at stealing 2legs' bacon?
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted May 2, 2010
Do you mean the breast meat as well? The legs/thighs are a different colour for sure - but I can only remember the breast meat being lighter in colour, even though these days the chicken with any flavour comes from proper farms.
Who wants to have a go at stealing 2legs' bacon?
Yes, the whole bird used to be a different colour. Because they were fed differently, and because they were bred differently I suppose.
Who wants to have a go at stealing 2legs' bacon?
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted May 3, 2010
Its also got a lot to do with how* 'free range' the chicken is... if they're living outside and moving about they tend to have darker meat, as they've got effectively better developed muslces... 
I've certainly noticed it when I've got organic free range chicken, its a far more 'gamey' tasting meat and really is quite unlike 'chicken' (of the mass produced supermarket type)... of course the latter is more suited for cooking some things, and the former best for other things... I'd not really want to use an organic free range bird if I were making a curry or something like that, the flavour would be too overpowering 
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