Meaning
A hearty soup made with chicken feet — the cleaned, scaly feet simmered until they give up their rich, gelatinous body to the broth — along with yam, coco, dumplings, pumpkin, and seasoning. Cheap and nourishing, chicken foot soup makes the most of a humble part, and the feet are chewed for the little bits of skin and tendon around the bones.
Examples
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Granny mek chicken foot soup pon a Saturday.
Grandma makes chicken foot soup on a Saturday.
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Di chicken foot mek di soup thick an rich.
The chicken feet make the soup thick and rich.
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Nyam off di likkle meat pon di chicken foot.
Eat the little bits of meat off the chicken feet.
Origin
From 'chicken foot' + 'soup'; a gelatinous, economical soup. See [[cow-foot]], [[red-peas-soup]].
How it’s used
A gelatinous, cheap soup made with chicken feet. See [[cow-foot]], [[pumpkin-soup]].