Will this get into the "Best of the Crime Blotter?"

[eredien]

So, I'm sitting on the bench outside Pem Arch, reading. And I look up when a man comes over to me: I figure he's going to ask directions to the reading that's being held in TGH.

He's a pizza guy, I realize. He hands me a coupon.
I look up further.
There is a man, in a yellow chicken suit, standing there with a signboard over him that says, "New! Domino's Chicken Kickers." The part of me that takes notes on everything I see notices that the costume has little chicken feet.

I politely thank the man and watch as he and the chicken shuffle slowly off under Pem Arch, framed by blossoming trees.

It starts to become surreal after about two minutes have elapsed. I figure this is the universe's way of telling me to go finish my paper.

Comments

[wayman.livejournal.com]

I don't understand dressing as a chicken to advertise eating chicken, but I've heard of it before and I think I've seen it on TV. No one dresses like a cow or a pig or a giant vegetable or fruit (except the Fruit of the Loom guys, but that's different); why does dressing like a chicken to advertise eating the same evade this taboo? Are chickens so inherently funny that they transcend the taboo? Are chickens somehow more removed, conceputally, from cooked chicken than cows are from steak or pigs from pork? Is that possibly true of particular kinds of cooked chicken (eg, buffalo wings or this Domino's product, which is probably similar) which bear particularly little resemblance to an animal? But it's not like a steak actually resembles a cow, either. . . .

Hmm, come to think of it, I remember a bacon company (can't remember which one) using animated pigs for their commercials, years and years ago. And bacon is visually about as far removed from a pig as buffalo wings are from a chicken. Maybe when the food is far enough in appearance from its source, market research has found that it's actually helpful to emphasize the connection to the animal, to demonstrate that this product actually does contain real meat, but that it's best to do so in a comical way so the would-be consumer doesn't spend too much time contemplating the actual food production process. . . .

I'm overanalyzing again, aren't I?

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

There's a barbeque place in my town whose logo incorporates a pig wearing sunglasses. I think it's called "Red Hot & Blue."