Have I spent my entire adult life stuffing the wrong end of chickens?

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(Non-meat-eating MNers may want to skip this thread)

One of those fairly rare Sundays where I have decided to do a roast chicken for tea. I made up the Paxo, put the bird in the roasting pan and happened to glance at the label I had just removed, which said: stuff the neck end. My policy has always been (at least in my head) 'Now you pull its feet out of its arse so you can stuff it.' Am I doing this wrong? Or is the end they tuck the feet into the neck end anyway? And if it's not, how the fuck do you get the stuffing in the other end?

(It's clearly not dangerously wrong as nobody has ever suffered from eating my bum-stuffed chickens.)

(And don't tell me to cook the stuffing in a separate dish, because that's just barbaric.)

Wait what so the arse is the neck so where is the lemon supposed to go?!?!

So does this chicken have the oranges coming out of it's arse or it's neck? Because I'd have assumed that was the arse.

Left hand side - arse, Parsons nose(tail), large cavity for lemons herbs etc to flavour meat when cookin

Right hand side - wish bone, loose neck skin for stuffing

Oranges up the arse! (oo eer)

The neck is the end closest to the wings. The butt is closest to the legs.

Well that's a relief!

How can people not know which end of a chicken is which?
It’s arse is where it’s legs are.

I’m a vegetarian. You meat eaters are weird.

Ooops - memory fail! Could have sworn feet tucked in other end. Thanks for piccies.

You can get more stuffing up its rear end so that's decision made in my book. Just cook it longer. With turkey I shove the stuffing anywhere it'll go! Not had a problem yet, have had lots of stuffing on my plate

If you put a lemon up there, don't you end up with weird lemony gravy?

It's great.

Just lemon, onion and salt. Divine.

Or you could also add some herbs. Pink pepper is also good.

So does this chicken have the oranges coming out of it's arse or it's neck? Because I'd have assumed that was the arse.

Neither. That chicken has lemons for stuffing.

Also, only on MN there would be a discussion about which is the neck and the arse end of a chicken.

To stop the breasts drying out - roast the chicken breast side down. Turn right way up near end of cooking to colour up.

I usually put a small haggis (out of its skin, obviously) into the body cavity i.e. the bottom end. Best stuffing ever! The veggie version of haggis is a good too. Spoon it out to serve. No risk of food poisoning with a normal sized chicken. I wouldn't stuff the bum end of a big bird though.

But do you put the arse or the neck end of the haggis in the cavity?

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I'm laughing so much at this thread that the cat has stalked off in disgust

Ah but is it a MN chicken that feeds 2 adults and 3 kids for three days with leftovers for sandwiches and soup for a week of lunches?

I'm shaking with laughter here. No one ever died from one of my bum stuffed chickens either.

Bum. Neck. Whatever as long as it's all cooked. Yummy chicken 🍴

I'm sure it can't be your entire adult life. You surely don't stuff chickens 24/7.

Stuff arse end (though tbh I usually just use a lemon or two).

Use foil to prevent drying out.

Turkey use sausage meat / chestnut stuff at the neck end, breadcrumby herby stuff at the other end, lots of streaky bacon over the breast and a LOT of foil.

Bum.

And I haven't poisoned anyone yet.

My god this makes me glad I'm a veggie. Listen to yourselves, weirdos 😂

My god this makes me glad I'm a veggie.

What so you don't have to make this really difficult decision- top or bottom end? It is a hard slog, I'll admit that.

Veggies look away