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One Cornish hen per person is considered an appropriate serving, though larger hens can be split in half to feed two people. Most sources credit the Makowsky's of Connecticut for developing the small bird in the mid-1950s, while other historians crediting Donald John Tyson of Tyson Foods with the initial idea for breeding and marketing the hens in the 1960's.
The Cornish Game Hen Is a Tiny Liar. The Cornish game hen has a reputation as a sort of 1970s exotic dinner: foreign but familiar, weirdly sized, kind of expensive, not particularly cool at the moment. From the way the Cornish game hen is named and marketed, you might be forgiven for jumping to a few conclusions.