What is Texas Gamefowl Chicken
When you search for the meaning of “Texas chicken” on Google, you will be provided tons of fried chicken from Texas. If you are a cockfighter living in Manila or any part of Luzon and are looking for a gamefowl to buy, you just used the wrong keyword.
Texas gamefowl meaning in cockfighting vocabulary
In the Philippines, where cockfighting is a multi-billion dollar industry, Filipinos, especially in Tagalog-speaking provinces in Luzon, refer to gamefowl as Texas or teksas. The local term is “manok panabong”, “panabong na manok”, or just “panabong”. However, this is not the case in the Visayas and Mindanao areas. Texas is seldom used. Locals call gamefowl “inog-bulang” in Ilonggo/Hiligaynon or “manok pang bulang” in Cebuano. “Bulang” has two meaning in Hiligaynon (1). cockfight or sabong (...