"David Hill" wrote in message ...
".......... Will roast parakeet replace chicken? ........"

if they do wont they be Parakate?

As long as they haven't been treated with the popular chemical
control, Paraquate. In Australia, a well-known delicacy led to the
invention of the nursery-rhyme "Paracake, paracake, baker's man".

If you can get enough dead ones, you can make the feathers into an
unusual and attractive floor-covering: in the trade this is known as
paraquet.

Mike.