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While I feel satisfaction blogging about how I hate seafoods, I’ll never get tired of loving almost anything chicken. But no, I don’t do exotic cuisine so no “isaw” (chicken intestine), chicken head and feet for me. I’m not loosing half of my life if I don’t try them out.

It has been family tradition that we celebrate special events like birthdays, graduations and anniversaries at Max’s Restaurant. So what if it’s not one of those fancy fine diners like Burgoos, Chilis, Italianis? First and foremost, it shows of our love for being Filipinos. And if I’m shelling out a grand for a single eating, I’d expect the table to look like a fiesta - as opposed to having just a burger and a fancy-you-can’t-pronounce-its-name pasta.

KFC. Do you know anyone who doesn’t like KFC? On a Simpsons episode, even God was begging the Colonel for the secret recipe. Their chicken has been so good they’ve been the targets for at least 5 local urban legends.

Myth 1: KFC poultry are genetically engineered. The emails that circulated even had pictures of their featherless livestock. Dear friends, however you want to believe this Frankenchicken theory, this apparently is just a widespread internet hoax.

Myth 2: I’m sure you know a friend who knows a friend who knows a friend who watched a movie eating KFC take-out. According to the story, a couple of minutes into the movie, that person eating suddenly felt something like that of a tail and pulling up the tail and bringing it to the light, a whole rat carcass is revealed – fried and seasoned, the KFC original recipe way. While our friends would most likely swear on their friend’s mother’s grave that the story is true, the fact that we all have friends who know friends that had this experience has an almost impossible probability of 1:380,000 - unless, of course KFC has a habit of frying 45 rodents per year (that’s 1 rat per branch per year within Metro Manila).

Myth 3: Another proof that the story above is just another hoax is that different versions of it have been circulated. Some versions use cockroaches in place of the rat. Some, just the tail is recovered – all the furry meat already been eaten.

Nevertheless, people never stopped lining up on KFC stores. I won’t mind discovering some rat portions on my meal. That’s an opportunity to sue the big guys and get instant millions in exchange for silence.

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