adidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Genericized trademark from the German company name, Adidas. The sense is most likely due to the association made with chicken feet and Adidas shoes. Compare Cebuano adidas and Tagalog adidas.
Senses: examples: text: Andrej Rossi. Adidas : Grilled chicken feet skewers , marinated and cooked to perfection . Tapsilog : A budget - friendly meal consisting of tapa ( marinated beef ) , sinangag ( garlic fried rice ) , and itlog ( fried egg ) . Balut : A[…]
ref: 2023 November 20, Andrej Rossi, Philippines Travel Guide, via tolino media, →ISBN:
text: ... Adidas barbecue (chicken feet), roasted peanuts, boiled or roasted corn on the cob, balut (boiled duck egg), sago gulaman (tapioca pearls), fish balls, and fresh fruit and vegetables. A risk associated with street foods is the[…]
ref: 2021 February 15, Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines: A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: ... given special or funny names in the 1980s, like Betamax (chicken-blood cake), Walkman (grilled pork ears), Adidas (chicken feet), and pope's nose (chicken butts). PRITONG DILIS Fried Anchovies with Spicy Rémoulade THIS DISH IS.
ref: 2018 November 13, Nicole Ponseca, Miguel Trinidad, I Am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: ... Adidas) 1. [n.] chicken feet barbecue; the chicken feet are washed clean with toe nails cut off, parboiled, then marinated in barbecue marinade, skewered in bamboo barbecue stick, and then grilled on charcoal embers. 2. [n.] chicken[…]
ref: 2017 November 15, Edgie Polistico, Philippine Food, Cooking, & Dining Dictionary, Anvil Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
text: ... adidas for grilled chicken feet, and walkman for barbecued pig ears. The word “trapo” is used to describe ... Philippines and became a standing joke. While most Filipinos would criticize her grammar, this writer would think that this is[…]
ref: 2016 April 13, Patricia Haseltine, Sheng-mei Ma, Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 44:
text: 309 Recipes, 60 Countries Steven Raichlen. PLANET BARBECUE. The. Philippines: Asian. Grill. Secrets. Revealed. I often say ... Adidas” (grilled chicken feet) and “Walkman” (grilled pig ears). (For a full guide to Filipino street food, see[…]
ref: 2015 December 22, Steven Raichlen, Planet Barbecue!: 309 Recipes, 60 Countries, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: ... adidas arrozcaldo SNACKS (MERIENDA) AND STREET FOOD DESSERTS rice porridge with chicken balut raw, halfformed duck ... grilled chicken or pig's intestines served with a cup of vinegar for dipping steamed cornonthecob pugo hardboiled[…]
ref: 2014 October 1, Simon Foster, Kiki Deere, The Rough Guide to the Philippines, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Highlights include deep-fried fishballs and squidballs (mashed fish or squid blended with wheat flour), grilled pig intestines and adidas – chicken's feet, named after the sports-shoe manufacturer. Prices start from a few pesos a stick.
ref: 2013 October 10, David Dalton, Stephen Keeling, The Rough Guide to the Philippines, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN:
text: ... Philippines, street vendors can be found grilling marinated chicken feet that are playfully nicknamed “adidas” (the ... grilled Filipino-style of chicken feet is delectably chewy. My interpretation of this popular Filipino street food is[…]
ref: 2013 April 23, Marvin Gapultos, Adobo Road Cookbook: A Filipino Food Journey, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:
text: ... Philippines providing their owners with a fresh eggs and meat. Like the pig, no part of the chicken, or manok, goes to waste ... grilled chicken heads (Filipinos nickname this street food the “helmet”), grilled chicken feet (called “adidas[…]
ref: 2012 July 10, Miki Garcia, Filipino Cookbook: 85 Homestyle Recipes to Delight Your Family and Friends, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:
text: ... grill and sell them as tasty two - bite snacks . Mature chickens provide even more fodder for strolling munchers . Grilled chicken heads , known as helmets , are extremely popular as are Adidas , chicken feet which have had the nails[…]
ref: 2012 January 16, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver, They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
text: ... grilled bananas, one can find barbecued chicken feet, nicknamed 'Adidas,' chicken wings called 'PAL' (Philippine Airlines), chicken intestines called 'IUD' for its appearance, pig's ears that are known as 'walkman' and the combs on[…]
ref: 2007, Richard Hosking, Eggs in Cookery: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2006, Oxford Symposium, →ISBN:
glosses: chicken feet, skewered and grilled, sold as street food