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- Title:
- Make a Run for It
- Description:
- Domesticated chickens could not escape when meant for sacrifice at pagan rituals such as during rice harvesting. Pigafetta didn’t know about it. But he learned chicken was eaten. At noon on Friday, March 22, 1521 native men brought coconut, sweet native oranges, a jar of palm wine and a cock that the expeditionary crew bought. They may have purchased a wild jungle fowl (Gallus bankiva) some historians think. Pigafetta recorded the local word for “galina” to be monoch. It is spelled manok in the languages of Bicol, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maranaw, Pangasinan, Cebuano, Samar-Leyte, Tagalog; manuk in Pampangan, Ivatan, Maguindanao; manu in Ibanag. In 1613, labuyo meant a wild mountain chicken in Tagalog. Filipinos have been eating chicken for millennia. Archaeologists of the Philippine National Museum found chicken bones at Butuan in Mindanao dating to the 11th and 12th centuries and at Cagayan of northern Luzon in Peñablanca that are 11,000 years old and Lallo, dated as 2,800 years old.
- Subjects:
- Labuyo Chicken
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Make a Run for It", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll039.html