50 Shades of Chicken
Ich kenne Fifty Shades of Grey nur aus ein paar Witzen von Craig Fergusons Late Late Show auf CBS, ist wohl ein ziemlich erfolgreicher Literatur-Porno oder sowas. Jetzt gibt’s davon einen Kochbuch-Remix mit 50 versauten Hühnchen-Rezepten und jeder Menge Bondage-Chicken und der Buchtrailer wird erzählt von Patrick „Captain Picard“ Stewart. Now you know.
Dripping Thighs, Sticky Chicken Fingers, Vanilla Chicken, Chicken with a Lardon, Bacon-Bound Wings, Spatchcock Chicken, Learning-to-Truss-You Chicken, Holy Hell Wings, Mustard-Spanked Chicken, and more, more, more!
Fifty chicken recipes, each more seductive than the last, in a book that makes every dinner a turn-on.
“I want you to see this. Then you’ll know everything. It’s a cookbook,” he says and opens to some recipes, with color photos. “I want to prepare you, very much.” This isn’t just about getting me hot till my juices run clear, and then a little rest. There’s pulling, jerking, stuffing, trussing. Fifty preparations. He promises we’ll start out slow, with wine and a good oiling . . . Holy crap. “I will control everything that happens here,” he says. “You can leave anytime, but as long as you stay, you’re my ingredient.” I’ll be transformed from a raw, organic bird into something—what? Something delicious.
Fifty Shades of Chicken (via Nerdalicious)
Amazon-Partnerlink: Fifty Shades of Chicken: A Parody in a Cookbook
Beware! It’s raining Chicken from the Sky!
Raining Chicken all the way across the Sky! What does it mean?
A teen’s horseback riding lesson ended abruptly after a foot-long hunk of raw chicken that fell out of a cloudless sky hit her in the head. […] Bernard, who was not injured, was wearing a riding helmet when the chicken hit her. Protecting a rider from unidentified flying chicken parts is not the helmet’s normal function, but it did the trick.
Chicken censored in Iran:
Der Iran zensiert Hühnchen. Echt. „The rising cost of chicken in Iran has prompted the country’s police chief to urge broadcasters to censor it from television screens in the interests of social harmony.“ Chickens facing censorship in Iran (via Arbroath)
Chicken Chair

Ein Hühnerstuhl. Ein Hühnerstuhl mit Message! “It had to be a chicken—I don’t know why, but a raccoon, rabbit or dog caged under a chair would be plain wrong.”
We never see live chickens any more except skinned and cellophane wrapped in the supermarket isle. I remember reading somewhere that the US consumes more than 8 billion chickens a year, if we do the math that’s roughly some 20 million per day, 250 killed per second…
I like eating chickens, but I also like for people to be aware of how they live and the consequences of the little decisions they give for granted everyday. I would like people to see a chicken again in their daily life, to find it both uncomfortable and beautiful at the same time. I see the Chicken Chair as a simple but beautiful furniture piece, an exercise in awareness a chair that literally comes to life and assumes a new function literally pocking, pecking and croaking—questioning us.
Chicken Beatbox Chick
Madame macht auf der Bühne ziemlich realistisches Hühnergegacker nach und baut das in ‘ne Beatbox ein. Frauen die sowas können werden mal Präsident der Galaxis und nach ihnen werden Pizzen benannt. Chicken Beatbox Pizza!
Vertical Headless Chicken Farm

Andre Ford ist Architekt und schlägt vertikale Hühnerfarmen vor, um den wachsenden Nahrungsmittelbedarf der Menschheit zu decken. Den Hühnern werden die Köpfe (bis auf das Stammhirn) und die Füße entfernt, so sollen sie in Halterungen aufwachsen, die an die Matrix-Menschenfarm erinnert. Futter und Wasser werden über Leitungssysteme zugeführt, Exkremente durch hydraulische Systeme abgesaugt. Und wer das irgendwie schockierend findet, sollte sich mal damit beschäftigen, wo das meiste Fleisch auf unseren Tellern herkommt und sich fragen, ob dieser ultra-maschinelle „Anbau“ von Hühnerfleisch nicht humaner wäre. Die Antwort auf diese Frage weiß ich allerdings auch nicht.
Wired UK hat grade einen kleinen Artikel dazu, We Make Money Not Art hatte vor ein paar Tagen ein Interview mit Ford, Snip:
The project is almost effortlessly provocative because it is dealing with a subject matter which the majority of people are aware of, complicit in and culpable to varying degrees. The mass media is saturated with documentary films, books and celebrity chef hosted exposé’s that document the plight of animals bred for our consumption and I don’t wish to add to the plethora of information readily available. The information is there, but the majority of people don’t care to know or purport they can’t afford to care. […]
I think it is time we stopped using the term ‘animal’ when referring to the precursor of the meat that ends up on our plates. Animals are things we keep in our homes and watch on David Attenborough programs. ‘Animals’ bred for consumption are crops and agricultural products like any other. We do not, and cannot, provide adequate welfare for these agricultural products and therefore welfare should be removed entirely.
Earlier in the project I was proposing the chickens would be rendered unconscious, or desensitized by complete removal of the head but this has since been revised. Desensitisation will be achieved by a surgical incision that separates the animal’s neocortex, responsible for sensory perceptions, and its brain stem which controls its homeostatic functions. The head remains intact.
WMMNA: Farming the Unconscious, Wired: Food Project Proposes Matrix-Style Vertical Chicken Farms
Helmut Kohl hypnotized his Chicken with a Line drawn by Chalk
(Youtube Direktchicken, via Reddit)
Dinge, die ich auch noch nicht wusste, Teil 3465: „Helmut Kohl, German statesman. Herr Kohl’s preferred method seems to be similar to that used by Werner Herzog, he used “a line drawn by chalk”. (Stern magazine, 13 September 1996)“ (Aus dem Wikipedia-Artikel über Chicken Hypnotism, zu dem ich [selbstverständlich] kein deutsches Pendant gefunden habe und im deutschen Kohl-Artikel steht natürlich auch nichts über hypnotisierte Hühner). Jedenfalls: ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-CHICKEN!
Mask made of Chicken Skin

Falls wer ein dringendes Bedürfnis verspürt, seinen inneren Leatherface oder Buffalo Bill rauszulassen: Auf Etsy gibt’s eine Maske auf Hühnerhaut für 150 Dollar. „His name is Eleanor Rigby. Fun at parties.“ Oh my.
Sex Change Chicken:
BBC: ‘Sex-change’ chicken shocks Cambridgeshire owner: „A hen surprised its owner when it stopped laying eggs, grew chin wattles and began to crow like a cockerel.“ (via Arbroath)
Chicken Head Steadicam
(Youtube Direktchicken, via VBS)
Vor zwei Jahren zeigte ich hier ein Video dieses jungen Herrn namens Chicken Head Tracking, in dem ein Huhn seinen Kopf immer in derselben Position hält, unabhängig von der Bewegung des Körpers. Klingt kompliziert, ist aber ganz einfach: Funktioniert genau wie eine Steadicam. Und genau so eine hat er nun gebaut: A Chicken Head Steadicam.
Half Processed Industrial Chicken

Das ist keine Eiscreme, sondern industriell verarbeitetes Hünchen, so wie es für Nuggets und sowas verwendet wird.
Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all. it comes out looking like this.
There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.
Yummy! Jetzt kriege ich (tatsächlich!) Appetit auf einen Burger.
Say hello to mechanically separated chicken (via Coudal)
[update] Thomas hat in den Comments eine ältere Story zum Bild gepostet mit ein paar mehr Infos. Scheint sich tatsächlich nicht um einen Fake zu handeln.
this is mechanically separated chicken, an invention of the late 20th century. Someone figured out in the 1960’s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result.
This paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many a hot dog, bologna, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, salami, jerky etc…
The industry calls this method AMR – Advanced Meat Recovery.
Artists steal a Chicken in a Vagina (NSFW)

Ihr erinnert Euch an die Pimmelbrücke von St. Petersburg? Das kam vom Künstlerkollektiv Voina Group und die haben wieder zugeschlagen und – wait for it! – ein Hühnchen in einer Vagina geklaut. Ja, exakt genau das, was ihr jetzt denkt. Ich glaube, der Spruch „What the fuck“ hat noch nie besser gepasst… ähm.
Voina DIY Handbook.
Section 1. How to snatch chicken.
The tale of how one cunt fed the whole of the group Voina. Activist of the group Voina named Vacuous Cunt With Inconceivably Huge Tits steals a chicken from a supermarket by hiding it in her vagina. At the same time The Voina Activists assisted Cunt, showing the CCTV cameras and security guards their motto. FUCK WHORING YOURSELF! declared the Voina motto.
Chicken came before egg
Bislang ging ich immer davon aus, dass das Ei vor der Henne da war und von dem Vieh gelegt wurde, dass dem Huhn in der Evolutionsleiter vorangestellt war. Jetzt haben Wissenschaftler herausgefunden, dass wohl tatsächlich die Henne vor dem Ei da wahr. Hat irgendwas mit Proteinen und Eierschalen zu tun.
“It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first,” Sheffield University’s Colin Freeman, according to a report in the Metro.
Researchers from Scotland and England used a supercomputer called HECToR to look in such detail at a chicken eggshell that they were able to determine the vital role of a protein used to kick-start the egg’s formation.
That protein is only found, wait for it…inside a chicken.
Now you know: Chicken came before egg, evidence suggests (via Coudal)
Giant Photoshop-Contest from outer Space

Heute auf der Photoshop-Contest-Site Worth1000: Gigantische Dingse in Städten. Das Bild oben ist mit Abstand das beste, aber immerhin gibt es zweimal riesige Riesenhühner, und die haben hier auf Nerdcore ja eine gewisse Tradition.
Exaggeration City 8 – Sometimes bigger is better!
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
John Larry Ballmark vs the 100 Meter-Chicken from Space – Teaser Trailer
Giant Chicken from outer Space
Riesenhühner’n da hood

Dripping Thighs, Sticky Chicken Fingers, Vanilla Chicken, Chicken with a Lardon, Bacon-Bound Wings, Spatchcock Chicken, Learning-to-Truss-You Chicken, Holy Hell Wings, Mustard-Spanked Chicken, and more, more, more!
The project is almost effortlessly provocative because it is dealing with a subject matter which the majority of people are aware of, complicit in and culpable to varying degrees. The mass media is saturated with documentary films, books and celebrity chef hosted exposé’s that document the plight of animals bred for our consumption and I don’t wish to add to the plethora of information readily available. The information is there, but the majority of people don’t care to know or purport they can’t afford to care. […]

