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To accompany their story on the history of the chicken as food item, Smithsonian magazine dressed up a few birds as historical figures. Spanning the 10,000 years since the chicken has been used in a culinary capacity, we get the poultry version of anyone from Julius Caesar and Abe Lincoln, to Napoleon and Albert Einstein. There’s even General Tso — because Smithsonian likes its chicken spicy.
[photos by Timothy Archibald, see more historical chickens here]
If you don’t keep up with your pseudo food holidays/marketing gimmicks, then you probably don’t know that today is Cow Appreciation Day.
What Came First?, a sculpture by UK artist Kyle Bean, adds some irony to the age-old question. Perhaps the chicken and egg came at the same time, and a hideous breed of shell-covered poultry once roamed the Earth?
Thankfully the two were eventually separated, making bacon and eggs, and chicken shawarmas possible. Thank you evolution!
[via The Awesomer]
Sorry to ruin everyone’s childhood, but that’s not strawberry soft serve that you’re seeing in the picture above. It is in fact the result of mechanically separated chicken, which is then formed into shapes such as McNuggets and processed chicken patties.
Apparently invented to combat pesky round eggs from rolling off plates—a mad genius, perhaps psychopath came up with the ‘Egg Cuber’. Stan Pargman set up the Square Egg Co. (seriously) in 1976 to make this contraption that encases a cooked, peeled egg and, after a few minutes, releases it reshaped.
With all the technology that we have access to, couldn’t we just bioengineer hens to produce square eggs so we wouldn’t have to buy novelty items like this on Ebay? Or perhaps that would be like trying to get a square egg through a round hole [~cue rimshot~].
Current versions of Egg Cubers, as well as the original patent can be found at foodiggity’s Facebook page.
[via presurfer]