Yorkshire Pudding: and other Brit Food

[Carol]

Ann
> > > P.S.: Do Americans break the wishbone in a chicken?
> 
> Potioncat:
> We did too. Particularly of the Christmas or Thanksgiving turkey,
but any Sunday chicken would do. I think chicken is cut up differently
now,  and I'm not sure my children have ever experienced the tradition.
> 
> From South Carolina, where everyone had British roots.
> Kathy
>

Carol adds:

I think that's one British tradition that has become an American
tradition, too. At any rate, my family broke the wishbone when I was a
kid (chicken or turkey). I remember trying it once as an adult and the
bone broke into three pieces, meaning, I suppose, that neither of us
got our wish. My family has British (mostly English, some Irish) roots
but far back. I have a Mayflower ancestor and another who was hanged
at the Salem witch trials on my father's side. I'm not sure when my
mother's ancestors came over from Britain, but certainly no later than
the nineteenth century. American through and through, as I realized
when I went to England and found it to be a "foreign country" (though,
of course, I was the foreigner). :-)

Carol, who usually buys chicken at KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) these
days and consequently seldom encounters a wishbone