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Quotes About Chicken

Wizened and white, with brown blotched on her face the size and complexity of unshelled peanuts, Midge had a jitter in her head that made her pew like a chicken trying to make up its mind what to peck.
~ John Irving
Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.
~ Terry Pratchett
He later said, "I remember there was some chicken -- some killer fowl -- being locked in some cell somewhere, and I'm talking to this stuntman -- it's crazy, me talking to this Janos Prohaska, [who was] Hungarian or something... [saying], 'Janos, okay that's good, baby, now try this.' And there's this big chicken -- this killer chicken -- or some equivalent. I mean, it was nuts." (26-3)
~ Unknown
bumper sticker said "I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.
~ John Sandford
First goddamn chicken we've had to count, and I'm counting the sonofabitch
~ John Sandford
heart-healthy reconstituted simulated free-range chicken eggs...
~ John Sandford
a tight hard little woman humorless as a chicken.
~ John Steinbeck
I seen her beat the hell out of a tin peddler with a live chicken one time 'cause he give her a argument. She had the chicken in one han', an' the ax in the other, about to cut its head off. She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax, but she forgot which hand was which, an' she takes after him with the chicken. Couldn' even eat that chicken when she got done. They wasn't nothing but a pair a legs in her han'. Grampa throwed his hip outa joint laughin'. How'd my folks go so easy?
~ John Steinbeck
I myself can't go too long without real Southern fried chicken, skillet cornbread, and all the other wonderful staples of my home food.
~ Johnny Cash
I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.
~ Joel Robuchon
The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
~ Jasper Fforde
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
~ Bennett Cerf
I'm too drunk to taste this chicken
~ Colonel Sanders
Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes - but it's just like chicken, only tenderer. Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.
~ Alistair Cooke
Yesterday, at a restaurant, I asked the waiter how he prepared the chicken. He replied, "We don't...we just tell it straight that it's going to die!"
~ Unknown
ASIAN-FLAVORED CHICKEN SKEWERS Serves: 4   Prep time: 35 to 60 minutes   Cook time: 10 minutes MARINADE: ½ cup low-sodium, gluten-free tamari 1 teaspoon grated fresh gingerroot 3 cloves garlic, crushed 2 tablespoons sesame oil 1½ teaspoons five-spice powder
~ Mark Hyman
Tacheen is a domed medley of baked saffron rice and chicken, forming the shape of a cathedral ceiling. On first glance, the dish looks curiously like 'chelow', plain steamed rice; it is only after slicing through its center that the layers of fortitude are exposed; first buttered rice and almonds, then fried chicken and sautéed spinach, the yogurt binding them into a brotherhood of delicious play. 'Tacheen.
~ Unknown
Care for a leg?' Mr. MacDonnell held the basket of chicken up toward Fenris Jones. 'Is that some kinda comment?' Fenris Jones demanded. 'Of course not,' Mr. MacDonnell said. 'It's an offer of dinner.
~ Martha Finley
The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.
~ Mary Roach
Penelope frowned. "I thought you had a headache?" "In my leg I do," Beowulf explained. "From chicken pox." He hopped on his one good leg and made chicken noises. "Buck-buck, buck-buck!
~ Unknown
He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help, pointed to a chicken, handed over some money, grabbed his parcel and bolted out the door in panic. Boys, thought the butcher. Drugs, thought the woman. Justin Case, thought Dorothea.
~ Meg Rosoff
Japan." Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if I come home and you're still pining over this little girl without having given her a chance, I will call you a chicken shit for the rest of your life.
~ Melina Marchetta
As the Mayo Clinic rather indelicately put it, "Most people are infected with Salmonella by eating foods that have been contaminated by feces."102 How does it get there? In slaughter plants, birds are typically gutted by a metal hook, which too often punctures their intestines and can expel feces onto the flesh itself. According to the latest national FDA retail-meat survey, about 90 percent of retail chicken showed evidence of contamination with fecal matter.
~ Michael Greger