Chicken for lunch - not for the faint of heart, or stomach

Step 1: Catch the Chicken. I had to catch three different ones before my "mom" finally said it was big enough.

Step 2: pluck the feathers from around the neck to allow for the quickest and cleanest cut. I felt pretty horrible ripping the feathers out while the chicken was still alive, but it was better for it in the end.

Step 3: cut. I will save most of the gruesome details but we had to hold the chicken down so it didn't run away. It wasn't as bad as I had thought.

Step 4: Remove all the feathers. There are a whole lot of feathers on the chicken. It took three of us girls about 15 minutes to get them all.

Look at that naked chicken!

Step 5: Remove the intestines. This part was pretty gross so I didn't add any pictures. If you really want to see you can ask me. You remove everything from the inside then wash out the chicken.

Step 6: Smoke the chicken over a charcoal stove. This is to remove all the little hairs (yes chickens have lots of little hairs) So it is toasted to the hairs burn off. It also helps in the cooking process.

Step 7: Then the chicken is cut into small pieces and cooked all the way through.

Step 8: Eat. I did eat the chicken for lunch. It was good, just not your typical american chicken. There was a lot of skin, ligaments, bones and other stuff, not a whole lot of meat.

There you have it. Chicken lunch in 8 easy steps.