More like goose than chicken, I would guess. But more oily than goose and with a sort of metallic flavor that comes from eating a lot of fish. I imagine the texture would be somewhat stringy and quite tough. Not something you’d really want to eat unless you had a lot of time to chew.
At least, that’s what the one I stole from the zoo tasted like.
@AstroChuck Ah, Burgess Meredith. May he rest in peace. I read an interview with him a long time ago, and he was lamenting the fact that, while he had many serious roles, he was best remembered for the Penguin!
@erichw1504This is what I was actually trying to find when I put in my previous link. The motions they use in their underwater “flight” are actually the same motions other birds use during air flight. They flap to rise, they glide, they even dive bomb. . Around 34 seconds into the video,there are some underwater shots which illustrate this very well.
Flying underwater is most definitely swimming.
Turtles also appear to be flying underwater. They are incredibly graceful and quite fast, but they are swimming, nonetheless.
@Dr_Dredd I love that episode too… they even made a spoof on Family guy….in which Peter gets so drunk that there is only one brain cell left and it breaks its glasses in the library
Burgess Meredith had several wonderful Twilight Zone appearences, but I remember him best as George in “Of Mice And Men”. Lon Chaney played Lenny. Scary good.
@Adirondackwannabe You have to decide if you want to be a bad guy or an old softie. I think you’re getting your knickers into too much of a twist here.
By the way, to answer the question – I have read accounts of explorers like Scott and Shackleton whose men were forced to eat penguins to survive. By all reports, they were greasy and not very tasty. Be warned.
I’m bad enough to have those thoughts and an old softie enough to know there are kids on that shouldn’t be exposed to my bad side. And they’re boxers, not knickers.
@talljasperman- Bite your tongue. There is only one Penguin and that’s Burgess Meredith. Just as there was only one Catwoman and that was Lee Meriwether.