The rotisserie chicken sold at Costco is famously a very good deal: $4.99 for a deliciously seasoned bird that you can (and with a shelf life of just two hours, it's guaranteed to be pretty fresh). In terms of bang for your buck, though, the Costco chicken might be an even better deal at outlets in Taiwan, where the rotisserie chicken comes with a little extra something not available elsewhere in the world: the head of the chicken.
In many parts of the world, chicken heads are just like chicken feet and chicken hearts: a tasty snack. And in places that celebrate the Lunar New Year, the chicken head can play an important role. Folks often serve a whole, cooked chicken — head and feet included — to symbolize wholeness, as well as a good beginning and end to the year ahead.
Global affinities for what Americans often consider off-parts can sometimes overlap in fascinating ways. For example, in a 2012 story published in , a Puebla-born man in Los Angeles purchased halal chicken heads from a Muslim butcher. He then sprinkled them with poultry seasoning and oven-roasted them, just the way he remembered from home.
But the head-on rotisserie chickens available at Costco Taiwan are just one regional nuance among many — here are a couple other things to know about the global mega-chain's many fascinating worldwide offerings. Rotisserie chicken is just the beginning of Costco's delicious global offerings Headless rotisserie chicken aside, Costco's other marquee offering in its U.S.
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