What is Chicken as food?
[[File:Max's Roasted Chicken - Evan Swigart.jpg|thumb|Roast chicken]] [[File:BBQJerk Chicken.jpg|thumb|[[Jamaica|Jamaican]] jerk chicken]] [[File:Hainanese Chicken from Chicken Hot Pot.jpg|thumb|Hoinanese Chicken]] '''[[Chicken]]''' is the most common type of [[poultry]] around the world. It is prepared in a number of ways, including [[boiling]], [[baking]], [[frying]], [[Grill (cooking)|grilling]]. Prepared chicken became a staple food for [[fast food]] production in the second half of the 20th century CE. Chicken is more healthy than [[Meat|red meat]]. It has less [[cholesterol]] and [[saturated fat]]. Chicken [[meat]] was first eaten in [[Babylonia]] in 600 BCE.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Chicken Facts and Origins|publisher=Poultrymad|url=http://www.poultrymad.co.uk/chicken-facts/index.html|access-date=May 14, 2021}}</ref> Chicken meat was one of the most commonly eaten meats available during the [[Middle Ages]] in [[Europe]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Chicken Husbandry in Late Medieval Eastern England|publisher=Academia|url=https://www.academia.edu/3346663|access-date=May 14, 2021|archive-date=July 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701001932/https://www.academia.edu/3346663|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the [[United States]] in 1800s CE, chicken meat was more expensive than other meats.<ref>{{cite web|title=How Chicken Conquered the American Dinner Plate|publisher=First We Feast|url=https://firstwefeast.com/features/2016/08/how-chicken-conquered-america|access-date=May 14, 2021|archive-date=May 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515015442/https://firstwefeast.com/features/2016/08/how-chicken-conquered-america|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chicken meat consumption in the United States increased during [[World War II]], due to there not being enough [[beef]] and [[pork]] because it was fastly eaten by all people during the prolonged wars for survival then. In Europe, chicken meat was eaten more than that of beef and [[veal]] in 1996, because of the consumer awareness of the [[mad cow dis