The Mountain Pirate Chicken Pun

Enjoy the joke while eating Nagano’s juicy fried chicken

Sanzoku-yaki mountain pirate chicken. Photo by author.

If you’ve ever been to Nagano Prefecture in the Japanese Alps, you’ve probably had a chance to eat one of the local specialties, a type of fried chicken called sanzoku-yaki (山賊焼き) which is usually rendered into English as “Mountain pirate (or bandit) chicken.”