Crow stew is a

stew A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. A stew needs to have raw ingredients added to the gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables a ...

made primarily from the

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of a

crow A crow is a bird of the genus '' Corvus'', or more broadly a synonym for all of ''Corvus''. Crows are generally black in colour. The word "crow" is used as part of the common name of many species. The related term "raven" is not pinned scientifica ...

. Crow stew may include onion, bacon fat, flour and sour cream. According to Guy Chassagnard's ''Dictionary of French Cuisine'', crow has "very tough meat", but can be "placed on the lid of a large cooking pot" to create "crow stew". An early reference to crow stew in the United States appears in an account of

Prince Achille Murat Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat (known as Achille, 21 January 1801 – 15 April 1847) was the eldest son of Joachim Murat, the brother-in-law of Napoleon who was appointed King of Naples during the First French Empire. After his father was de ...

. While living in and around

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from 1821 to his death in 1847, Murat was known to prepare and enjoy "crow stew", which he "served to his dinner guests." The modern, sour cream-based crow stew appears to have originated during the 1930s, at the time of the

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. It appears in several publications at that time, including ''Nebraskaland'' (1933) and ''Outdoor Indiana'' (1936). The restaurant ''Café Kör'' in Budapest, Hungary, has served crow stew.

Other uses

The term ''crow stew'' is also sometimes used as a

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, referring to the idiom ''

eating crow Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.

''. In an April 4, 1982 ''Chicago Tribune'' article titled, “Money can put the Sox, Cubs on top”, the Chicago-based sports writer Dave Condon predicted that the

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baseball team would defy expectation and have a winning season. However, as the Cubs’ season neared the end, the team was 19 games behind the first place Cardinals and was not expected to make the playoffs. As the Cubs prepared to host the rival Mets team, “Condon figured that the Mets would arrive in town with a menu for him of ‘crowburger, crow fricassee, crow pizza, crow stew, crow a la Gekas, and just plain crow for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”

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Team Coco: Jack McBrayer's Back Yard Is Infested With Crows
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