A man in Wahoo, Nebraska said he ate all
the eggs he could. He felt it was his contribution to beef sales; every
egg he ate was one less chicken!
People
take chickens personally. My brother Bob had a rooster named Oscar.
They hated each other! Lots of kids like Big Bird on Sesame Street. The
state birds of Rhode Island and Delaware are both chickens; one red, one
blue. Oklahoma has two cities named after the humble poult: Chickkasha
and Henryetta. Toledo had a minor league baseball team called the Mud
Hens.
Some folks love chicken. But
it's hard to find anybody who loves a chicken! Chickens don't make good
pets. It is hard to housebreak a chicken. They don't respond well to
training. Maybe that's why we don't see more chicken races, trained
chicken acts or seeing-eye chickens.
Chickens
come several ways: as hawks, peals, pox and coffee-flavored (chicory),
BBQ's, fried, in past little lumps called McNuggets and with their tail
between their legs! You can get them in a basket, in a bucket or in a
coop with fries.
The
poultry industry has done well in marketing its product. Beef is
distinguished in its advertising by its unique flavor, i.e. "nothing
satisfies like beef." Did you notice that everything tastes like
chicken? When one doesn't know how to describe the taste of some edible
tidbit they claim it tastes like chicken. Octopus tastes like chicken.
Rabbit, squirrel, armadillo, alligator, frog legs and squid have a
chicken-like flavor. Even rattlesnake meat tastes like chicken! Some may
think this comparison is fowl play but I think it adds a little glamour
to the pore ol' chicken. It adds pizzazz to the chicken to be
associated with these exotic creatures.
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