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What is the geographic origin of chicken and when and by whom was it introduced into North America?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Chicken has long played an important role in the United States. Chicken can be directly traced to the 1400s. I recently watched a History Channel special about the "origin of chicken in America."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
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The greatest testament we have today to the sailing abilities of the ancient Polynesians may be found in a few ancient chicken bones, a new study reveals.

The bones, which scientists recently dug up from a site on the central coast of Chile, offer a startling conclusion: Polynesians beat Columbus to the Americas by probably a century or more, arriving at the latest in the early 1400s.

After the American Civil War, chicken became a very popular food for sharecroppers and transients. Blacks are credited for making chicken popular in the South. It was quick and easy to cook; and when your traveled it lasted a long time in your sack (unlike pork and beef).

1930 and KFC Chicken:
In the midst of the depression, Harland Sanders opens his first restaurant in the small front room of a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky. Sanders serves as station operator, chief cook and cashier and names the dining area "Sanders Court & Caf㩮"
http://www.kfc.com/about/history.asp...
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