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You sure it wasn't you listening to the Bay City Rollers your mother was worried about?

I have the same problem. Years in kitchens, assorted carcasses yet chicken sends a "gross" signal down my back.

There is something particularly slimy feeling about raw chicken. I've known a few people who have no trouble with gutting fish, or cleaning hearts, livers, tripe, and other odd things for cooking who can't abide the feel of raw bird. I'm not too fond of it myself.

Ew. As a vegetarian I can't imagine having to debone a chicken.

Thanks for the nice comments on my crochet stuff! More pretty stuff up today...

As an avid fish cleaner myself, I think it's because fish are beautiful, sleek, clean. Chicken, well - - this is clearly one of the up sides to Costco - - skinned, boned, frozen chicken breasts by the bag. No muss, no fuss.

Honestly, for me (since I can't barely touch raw chicken for the exact same reason) it's the smell. It isn't overwhelming, but there's this...smell about raw chicken that grosses me out! That, added to the yukky slimynesss and those veins...
Blech!

I ran into this same problem last night as I had my hand jammed up the chickens bum, gagging, the subtle smell is what get me, not to mention the slime.
butchering chickens is something I did once and only once....the wet feather smell about killed me and I didn't eat chicken for months.

Just the thought of it caused me to throw up in my mouth a little bit.

As an avid sushi eater, I can say raw fish is just...prettier than raw chicken.

Because you are a sick puppy? LOL

chicken needs to be numbingly cold to avoid the gag reflex (yours, not the chicken's). For me...snipping the faces off of crustaceans takes the gross out prize.