Vyllk Drumsticks
A very popular piece of Vyllkard Meat, often produced and sold either battered and fried, or as a seasoned baked meat. The product as the name would suggest, is taken as meat off of a dead vyllk, often one serving themselves as what some would call 'chef qshoolum'. Drumsticks as a term has evolved a little. It spreads from the use of the word in chicken, and chicken legs. Likewise for vyllk, it largely has come to mean the same ends of the body in a more humanoid proportion. The meat generally covers the haunches with a division from the middle, being from a knee (severed around the joint), through to the connecting thigh & buttock.
The meat is popular not only for its flavor, but its even the easiest part of the meal to obtain from most of the qshoolum market. Between female hormones, muscular composition, and how it translates to weight-gain, the large influx of retired harpy dancers with weight issues tends to lend itself in a market full of optimal drumsticks. Sometimes ample drumsticks are ready on the harpy before their belly-fat or total weight is even substantial. This makes it easy for even heavy sparrow-weight vyllk, or lower grouse harpies to become a quick dish, and cuts down on wait times for a vyllk to truly fatten-up to their fuller measures. While most often do try to get more out of a willing bird, the fact remains between a good value and quick timing, drumsticks caught on as something every vyllkard meat supplier does. From there further improvements and highlights have pushed crazes and gimmicks on flavors and seasonings. Contrary to common thought, drumsticks can come from raptor meat as well. However its just greatly more associated and seen as a more natural component that swells out from harpies, while raptors give better rib/wing meat.
Differences From Terran Poultry
Contrary to chicken, a vyllk drumstick is frequently associated as a whole meal rather than a set or piece. This is because the portions are much different. While a chicken's drumstick even fried and finished can have its fullest part wrapped around within the hand, the vyllk's variant is actually more to the size of the person likely eating it - notably when alive, the vyllk's part being eaten would be equal to half a healthy person's hip-to-knee length, and at a width much fuller depending on their diet. A good portion of the fat is often cut down and cooked in with the meat itself, and shrinks a bit, but its still a very hefty piece of meat compared to any component (or even sometimes the whole) of a chicken. Some have even vowed to discard the term, given that the similarity to the instrumental tool is void, and may call this part of the bird a Baked Cudgel or Cooked Club. In few but notable instances, there's even been cases of drunken stunts or fights where the very real practice of beating someone with an obese-sized drumstick has occured. In some markets though, its increasingly common to see chicken drumsticks actually get replaced with leg-rolls or something similar.Slang
Drumstick has also worked backwards from the food market language, to more common discourse between living vyllk and a word they'd actively use, even when a caul'qa phrase was already deduced to the same slang. Akin to where the meat comes from, its largely synonymous with the perjorative of "Berkurk", or bottom/ass. Dumber than a drumstick is for example, an expression that can fit in and work. Its believed much like where the demographics of the meat come from, it started somewhere in the dancer field. Harpies have a mutual incentive to plumpen their 'drumsticks' for living reasons beyond qshoolum, as its sort of 'tricked' subconsious interest from raptors that are infatuated by buff legs and glutes that used to indicate a healthy and hard-working females that practiced for a courting dance. Yet in a modern sense, they've found they get get bigger and easier by fatty eating habits, leading to the after-show junk food binges. Yet, the value in qshoolum as well isn't a secret by any measure, so it is thought of across jokes or teasing wordplay about lewd and literal appetites like 'They're looking at my drumsticks like they're fresh out of an oven'. Eventually it evolved the word into more casual discourse, and bodily discussions. Later even the food market itself prompted to take its own word back with crass tag lines, word-plays, and depictions of females with large butts eating drumsticks to more easily allure sales from cannibalistic raptors. Basically, once the full commercialism scale of vyllkard meat caught on and went beyond mainstream, this loose food term originating with chicken slowly worked backwards into becoming a staple slang from vyllk-to-vyllk use while still holding its perception in food terms. To some aliens it may further prompt the eerie factor as to just how normal and complacent the species is with seeing itself as meat to feed others.
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Consumable, Food / Drink
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Common in market regions
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