Ceker Ayam

The headline here in the daily newspaper Kompas says that chicken feet can become shoes. That's right, folks. No mistake about it. 

The article goes on to tell us how one enterprising young man by the name of Nurman had the rather singular idea of fashioning chicken feet into shoes. After considerable monetary investment and experimentation, Nurman perfected his process and is now churning out shoes made from the previously worthless feet to the tune of one million rupiah per pair. 

What'll they think of next, right? 

In fact, there are many here in Indonesia who are accostomed to eating the feet, after they've been cooked of course, and so Nurman may have some slight conflict where it comes to taking food out of people's mouths. Then again, they also, believe it or not, eat the heads--a delicate and time consuming process, as I understand it, though I personally have never imbibed. Nor, for that matter, have I ever snacked on the feet. 

I will admit that, of these three choices, the shoes sound most appetizing, in a lifestyle sense, to me.