Oysters are two small, round pieces of

dark meat In culinary terms, white meat is meat which is pale in color before and after cooking. In traditional gastronomy, ''white meat'' also includes rabbit, the flesh of milk-fed young mammals (in particular veal and lamb), and sometimes pork. In ecotr ...

on the back of

poultry Poultry () are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails, a ...

near the thigh, in the hollow on the

dorsal side Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position pro ...

of the ilium bone. In French, this part of the bird is called ''sot-l'y-laisse'' which translates, roughly, to "the fool leaves it there","Only a Fool Would Leave Them," Bitten, Mark Bittman, New York Times, April 27, 2009 as unskilled carvers sometimes accidentally leave it on the

skeleton A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of an animal. There are several types of skeletons, including the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside ...

. In French, the term has been democratized by its musicality for its variations around s and l, .

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