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(The New York Times)   Scientists say chickens were first eaten by humans 2,200 years ago. Evidence confirmed after carbon dating a recently found bucket with the inscription "KFC"   (nytimes.com) divider line
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UberDave [OhFark]  
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2016-01-20 9:06:59 AM  
Interesting.  But it didn't mention that they started getting farked by humans in early 2009.
 
STDMan69  
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2016-01-20 9:29:22 AM  

UberDave: Interesting.  But it didn't mention that they started getting farked by humans in early 2009.


Republicans have been farking chickens before Obama became president. They are just doing it proudly now.
 
gopher321 [OhFark]  
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2016-01-20 10:34:01 AM  
And apparently one of the secret ingredients of the 11 herbs and spices was mammoth dung.
 
Ghastly [TotalFark]  
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2016-01-20 11:06:52 AM  
I have created an infinite chicken manifold.
 
trappedspirit  
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2016-01-20 11:13:08 AM  
Except the buckets used to say Kentucky Fried Chicken and not this hip KFC stuff they have been doing as of late.
 
pragmatic cynic too  
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2016-01-20 11:16:45 AM  
They were fried by lightning.
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]  
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2016-01-20 11:17:04 AM  
Humans have been eating ground birds for thousands of years before domesticated breeds became common.
 
Amish Tech Support  
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2016-01-20 11:17:10 AM  
This must be when they evolved road crossing skills as a means of escape.
 
under a mountain  
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2016-01-20 11:18:05 AM  
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Rapmaster2000  
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2016-01-20 11:19:28 AM  
Chicken make lousy housepet.
 
Day_Old_Dutchie  
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2016-01-20 11:20:04 AM  
"It looks like from all the evidence that chickens existed for a very long time in association with people and they were not food," he said.

That's because they were...

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busy chillin'  
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2016-01-20 11:21:04 AM  
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Percise1  
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2016-01-20 11:23:24 AM  
Yeah, humans domesticated them and kept them as pets for 8,000 years before considering eating them, because chickens are such great pets...
Bullshiat! Virtually everything on the planet has been food for humans when ever they felt the need, including other humans.
Lovely article!
 
Mukster  
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2016-01-20 11:23:40 AM  
Which came first- the chicken or the choker?
 
Crass and Jaded Mother Farker  
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2016-01-20 11:25:10 AM  
KFC = Kaveman Fried Chicken?
 
Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2016-01-20 11:25:47 AM  

STDMan69: UberDave: Interesting.  But it didn't mention that they started getting farked by humans in early 2009.

Republicans have been farking chickens before Obama became president. They are just doing it proudly now.


It was turkeys before 2009.

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NobleHam  
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2016-01-20 11:26:40 AM  
Surely we at least ate the eggs before we started eating them. Eating the chicken might have been considered a waste, since you were losing a perfectly good egg dispenser.
 
Jacobin  
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2016-01-20 11:29:04 AM  
This seems to be an idiotic statement. Humans have been eating anything they could catch for hundreds of thousands of years
 
EdNortonsTwin  
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2016-01-20 11:30:13 AM  
Link is farked for me, but seems likely folks have been farm raising various partridges and jungle fowl for tens of thousands of years.

They are certainly fun to hunt and many are quite tasty.
 
Galloping Galoshes  
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2016-01-20 11:31:54 AM  

Percise1: Yeah, humans domesticated them and kept them as pets for 8,000 years before considering eating them, because chickens are such great pets...
Bullshiat! Virtually everything on the planet has been food for humans when ever they felt the need, including other humans.
Lovely article!


Oh, so very much this.  Also, I think there's at least some documentary evidence to discredit the claim.  Finally, the testing of both human and chicken bones to show that they shared similar diets is explained by anyone who has ever kept chickens outside of an industrial setting:  Chickens are omnivores, and it's cheaper to give them table scraps than buy them food.  Yeah, chickens had a similar diet; they got the leftovers!
 
Wave Of Anal Fury  
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2016-01-20 11:32:30 AM  

trappedspirit: Except the buckets used to say Kentucky Fried Chicken and not this hip KFC stuff they have been doing as of late.


If you define "as of late" as 1991, then yes, that's what they've been using as of late.  I'd define that as "a couple decades."
 
The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark]  
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2016-01-20 11:33:43 AM  
I believe that chicken was first eaten by a human when someone hungry enough thought, "Whatever I catch I'm going to eat."
 
CygnusDarius  
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2016-01-20 11:34:16 AM  

NobleHam: Surely we at least ate the eggs before we started eating them. Eating the chicken might have been considered a waste, since you were losing a perfectly good egg dispenser.


Or you ate it when the chicken died of old age (stewing?), or if by some chance the chicken was killed.
 
Jiro Dreams Of McRibs  
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2016-01-20 11:34:29 AM  
Beginning at least 5,400 years ago [1] the chicken (Gallus gallus) was domesticated through the purposeful segregation and taming of a few individuals acquired from wild Junglefowl populations in Southeast Asia.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0039171

Prehistoric chickens were globally dispersed by the Polynesians, which was the first step in the global distribution of the chicken. And prehistoric chickens were delicious.
 
CygnusDarius  
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2016-01-20 11:35:02 AM  

The Irresponsible Captain: I believe that chicken was first eaten by a human when someone hungry enough thought, "Whatever I catch I'm going to eat."


Difficulty, there's only tigers.
 
Cortez the Killer  
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2016-01-20 11:38:21 AM  
I would kill for some Chick-A-Dilly right now

/breast & thigh
//slaw &
///pickled jalapeno on the side
 
wellreadneck  
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2016-01-20 11:41:12 AM  
The winners were buried with their owners. The losers were fed to the dogs.
 
Marine1  
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2016-01-20 11:51:19 AM  
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Approves.

/disappointed in all of you for not making the Futurama reference
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]  
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2016-01-20 11:53:29 AM  

Tr0mBoNe: Humans have been eating ground birds for thousands of years before domesticated breeds became common.


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oyabun  
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2016-01-20 11:54:46 AM  
Scientists say chickens were first eaten by humans 2,200 years ago.

And we started eating chickens with waffles one year later
 
Magorn [TotalFark]  
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2016-01-20 11:55:42 AM  
This research is CLEARLY insane.   If Humans domesticated Chickens 10,000 years ago, then chicken was on humanity's menu VERY shortly thereafter.   Even if chickens were primarily kept for their eggs,  it's a tradition as old as farming that an older chicken gets tossed in the stewpot when it stops laying, and since you only need one or two roosters per chicken yard, and excess males that get born quickly become a food source because otherwise they will fight for dominance of the flock at some point
 
ArkPanda [TotalFark]  
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2016-01-20 11:58:00 AM  

Cortez the Killer: I would kill for some Chick-A-Dilly right now

/breast & thigh
//slaw &
///pickled jalapeno on the side


Haven't heard that name in a while.  I thought they were out of business.
 
oyabun  
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2016-01-20 11:59:55 AM  
Scientists say chickens were first eaten by humans 2,200 years ago. Evidence confirmed after carbon dating a recently found bucket with the inscription "KFC"

Actually it was "JFC" (Judas Fried Chicken). It was served at the last supper.
 
fark_booger  
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2016-01-20 12:00:24 PM  
I freaking HATE Chick-fil-a.. It's not bad food, I just don't get the hype.. The farking line wraps around the building.. It's chicken people.. with pickles.. what is the big freaking deal? It's a sad society..

It seems to me that this place caters to younger adults who grew up eating chicken nuggets/fingers and pasta with butter because GOD FORBID THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE TOUCHES EACH OTHER..

SHUT UP.. No phone for a week. sigh...
 
Milos Hattrick  
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2016-01-20 12:08:24 PM  
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Jiro Dreams Of McRibs  
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2016-01-20 12:09:04 PM  

oyabun: Scientists say chickens were first eaten by humans 2,200 years ago. Evidence confirmed after carbon dating a recently found bucket with the inscription "KFC"

Actually it was "JFC" (Judas Fried Chicken). It was served at the last supper.


And Jesus said "Put out your hand, and place it in my side of mashed potatoes and gravy. Do not disbelieve, but believe."
 
durbnpoisn  
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2016-01-20 12:09:14 PM  

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This.

It's what I came here for.
 
durbnpoisn  
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2016-01-20 12:12:02 PM  

fark_booger: It's chicken people.


"Chicken people"?!  What the hell is that?

//The importance of using commas.  Please learn it.
 
Crass and Jaded Mother Farker  
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2016-01-20 12:15:06 PM  

durbnpoisn: fark_booger: It's chicken people.

"Chicken people"?!  What the hell is that?

//The importance of using commas.  Please learn it.


You make fun...

But you'll be glad they're here once the sheeple awaken.
 
busy chillin'  
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2016-01-20 12:29:28 PM  
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Cortez the Killer  
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2016-01-20 12:43:04 PM  

ArkPanda: Cortez the Killer: I would kill for some Chick-A-Dilly right now

/breast & thigh
//slaw &
///pickled jalapeno on the side

Haven't heard that name in a while.  I thought they were out of business.


There's two in Magnolia, one in Springhill, LA, and I think one in Haynesville, LA.

Mrs. The Killer has kinfolk in Springhill, so we go that way. But I only go to the Magnolia one on Main St. I don't know why it's so much better, but it is IMO.
 
WGJ [TotalFark]  
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2016-01-20 12:44:28 PM  
When you get a $3 million grant, you have to come up with a finding.
 
Resident Muslim [OhFark]  
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2016-01-20 12:59:59 PM  
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/who am I to argue with bovine instructions?!
 
morg  
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2016-01-20 2:31:13 PM  

trappedspirit: Except the buckets used to say Kentucky Fried Chicken and not this hip KFC stuff they have been doing as of late.


Someone once told me they weren't allowed to call their product chicken anymore. That kinda sounds like an urban myth now.
 
Grognard  
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2016-01-20 2:48:07 PM  
That would probably be Karnak Fried Chicken apparently
 
Grungehamster  
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2016-01-20 2:49:28 PM  

Magorn: This research is CLEARLY insane.   If Humans domesticated Chickens 10,000 years ago, then chicken was on humanity's menu VERY shortly thereafter.   Even if chickens were primarily kept for their eggs,  it's a tradition as old as farming that an older chicken gets tossed in the stewpot when it stops laying, and since you only need one or two roosters per chicken yard, and excess males that get born quickly become a food source because otherwise they will fight for dominance of the flock at some point


I think the argument isn't "nobody ate chicken for the first 50-75% of their history of domestication" but rather "poultry as a staple food source is a relatively recent invention and that the use of chickens for sport and rituals was more prominent than we would think."
 
saturn badger [OhFark]  
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2016-01-20 3:17:09 PM  
They can be hypnotized. We did this when I was a kid. We were going for our record (around six, I think) when my spotted us doing it and ran out of the house shouting "what are you doing to my chickens?" That scared them away.
 
tjsands1118  
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2016-01-20 8:20:34 PM  

morg: trappedspirit: Except the buckets used to say Kentucky Fried Chicken and not this hip KFC stuff they have been doing as of late.

Someone once told me they weren't allowed to call their product chicken anymore. That kinda sounds like an urban myth now.


They changed their name to KFC, as an attempt to get out of the regional branding. Not too long after the official change they ran that whole "Kitchen Fresh Chicken" while pushing their grilled chicken.
 
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