July 25, 2003

LIVE AND LET FRY

So now we know why he called the band Wings:

Pop icon Paul McCartney today fired a salvo for chicken rights, accusing fast food giant KFC of condoning cruelty to the "remarkable" birds that end up as take-away meals.

McCartney's band also featured drumsticks. The whole deal was nothing but a clandestine chicken tribute from start to finish.

Posted by Tim Blair at July 25, 2003 12:42 AM
Comments

Paul would think they're remarkable . . . anyone who's ever spent 10 minutes on a chicken farm can tell you how remarkably stupid those birds are, but I imagine they're probably the only creatures on earth besides Paul himself who enjoyed Give My Regards to Broad Street.

Posted by: ilyka at July 25, 2003 at 01:50 AM

I love animals too. They taste good.

Posted by: Don D'Cruz at July 25, 2003 at 03:39 AM

Remarkable?

What, are their feathers dry erasable, or what?

Posted by: Brian J. at July 25, 2003 at 04:27 AM

"Celebrties. Is there anything they don't know?"
-Homer Simpson

Posted by: LB at July 25, 2003 at 04:40 AM

I've got a tee shirt that reads"PETA" in large letters. In small wording below it says "People for the Eating of Tasty Animals". It's amazing the scowls I get when wearing this, until they read the fine print and ask me how they can get one.

Posted by: JohnO at July 25, 2003 at 07:44 AM

But remember, this dude is from Britain. The country that requires farmers to put toys in their pigs' stalls, so the little dudes can keep entertained before becoming scrapple...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,885057,00.html

Posted by: Betsy at July 25, 2003 at 08:38 AM

Well, I can't speak for KFC, but on my little ol' Kentucky farm we treat our chickens just fine...before we whack their heads off, pluck 'em, fry 'em, and smother them with gravy.

I love tasty animals.

Posted by: MrKentucky at July 25, 2003 at 11:22 AM

There is a plague of superannuated celebrities leaping on the bandwagon of bothering fans of fried fowl.
I read a report that Chrissie Hynde, late of "The Pretenders" was annoying grease addicts trying to score a fix of KFC with a side order of Escargot and gravy at the Paris Kentucky Fried chicken; those French- so cultured they only have ONE KFC. How do they fix hangovers? If you can manage to keep it down, nothing gets you back on the rails better than a whole mess of that sugary, greasy, rubbery chook.

Posted by: Habib Bickford at July 25, 2003 at 11:26 AM

The greatest food on Earth, your mother's chicken soup, contains chicken.

Yes, chicken.

It's a curative. It's homely. It's delicious. It will never be bettered.

Any chicken that ends up in your mother's chicken soup should be eternally thankful in chicken heaven.

Deal with it, Sir Paul McCartney. Pop icon. Tosser.

Posted by: ilibcc at July 25, 2003 at 11:44 AM

Vegetarianism is a truly tragic disability. But it can be overcome.

Posted by: TimT at July 25, 2003 at 12:38 PM

A bloke in our town when I was a kid was up before the magistrate for having sex with a chook out the back of a local pub. Apparently the publican heard cackling in his henhouse and thought someone was swiping his fowls. So he asked the local copper, who happened to be in the bar, to take a look. The copper told the court that he entered the chook shed to see the defendant shagging one chook and yelling to an hysterically clucking hen up in the rafters: "Don't you laugh, you bastard, your next"!!

Posted by: slatts at July 25, 2003 at 01:44 PM

No wonder I have never been keen on stuffing.

Posted by: Habib Bickford at July 25, 2003 at 02:20 PM

How do they fix hangovers? If you can manage to keep it down, nothing gets you back on the rails better than a whole mess of that sugary, greasy, rubbery chook.

If you can manage to keep it down is sort of the key phrase there, Habib.

I've heard the same cures-hangover claim about menudo (the Mexican tripe stew, not the boy band of old), but first I'd have to keep it down. That's the rub.

Posted by: ilyka at July 25, 2003 at 07:31 PM

Now see here boy; pay attention when I'm speaking boy (good boy but he just don't pay attention) no one, ah say no one, should eat chickens! You don't see that little chickenhawk around do ya?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at July 26, 2003 at 04:58 AM