Tastes like chicken

As a result, the phrase is also sometimes used to provide incongruous humor, by being used to describe foods or situations where it has no real relevance.

[4] As an explanation of why unusual meats would taste more like chicken than common alternatives such as beef or pork, different possibilities have been offered.

[5] Modern poultry, particularly mass-produced chicken and turkey, is considered to be “default”, as chicken is the World’s most consumed meat and animals are bred for large muscle mass that grows faster than naturally breeding fowl; trace chemicals in the meat that would give it a distinctive flavor[6] would thus be dispersed through larger amounts of muscle with less time to accumulate, thus giving lower concentrations per ounce of meat and creating a more generic taste.

Another suggestion, made by Joe Staton of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, is that meat flavors are fixed based on the "evolutionary origin" of the animal.

Specifically, he noted that certain tetrapods, particularly amphibians, reptiles and certain birds, largely taste like chicken, whereas other animals usually do not.