Cluck It Up During Chicken Month
September is National Chicken Month, a whole thirty days devoted to this under-appreciated and, in some opinions, overeaten bird! While we suspect National Chicken Month was conjured up by some corporate poultry producers and recipe developers to increase to consumption of “yard bird,” we’d like to suggest an alternative way of celebrating -- dressing up as some of the most famous chickens of all time and clucking it up!
The San Diego Famous Chicken is the larger-than-life, feathered friend for the Padres baseball team that helped make the profession of mascot the champion of cheer that it is today. Making more that 250 appearances per year across the country, this famous chicken and hall of fame mascot (really just a guy in a chicken suit) has been named on of the most powerful people in 20th century sports by The Sporting News.
Ernie the Giant Chicken from the animated series The Family Guy is the rowdy rooster who likes to show up in the middle of a scene and engage Peter in a cock fight. Random, weird, but sure to make you laugh! Foghorn from Looney Tunes is much more old-school cartoon character, a good ole boy rooster, who speaks in a signature deep southern drawl. Here are some other costume ideas, you could say nuggets of inspiration, for your transformation into a chicken – Chicken Little of the-sky-is-falling-fame, Camilla from the Muppet Show, the cast from Chicken Run and Alfred the Chicken among others.
When you’re suited up in your chicken costume in honor of National Chicken month, don’t forget to shake your tail feathers by boogying along the Chicken Dance. This fun group event is best danced to oomph-pa accordion music – get those wings flapping!
Poultry Day Something To Cluck About
Crank “The Chicken Dance” up on your iPod and get ready to flap your feathers all day long because today, March 19th, is Poultry Day. Whether you like to feast on poultry (it’s lower and fat and cholesterol than other carnivorous treats) or just like to be entertained by poultry (imagine the 2000 stop-animation film Chicken Run), Poultry Day is a reason to celebrate your fine feathered friends anyway you darn well please. Don’t stick with the same-old chicken dinner, try something new like Cornish hens, roasted goose, turkey legs, duck gumbo, or quail kebobs – just one bite and you’ll proclaim, “mmmm, tastes just like chicken”!
After dinner, just flip on the television you might just find yourself entertained with that good ole boy, err chicken, Foghorn Leghorn from old-school Looney Tunes, Camilla the Chicken from the Muppets, or the beyond-ridiculous Giant Chicken that randomly appears to fight with Peter on the Family Guy. Perhaps one of the most famous chickens of all time is the San Diego Chicken (aka The Famous Chicken) that performed at more than 500 consecutive Padres baseball games and was one of the major forces in making sporting mascots popular all over the country. This chicken mascot was so popular that it was actually named by The Sporting News as one of the “100 most powerful people in sports for the 20th century”. Pecking order aside, another poultry mascot that can’t be overlooked is HokieBird of Virginia Tech. Helping to cheer the Fighting Gobblers onto victory, this turkey mascot is one of the top college mascots around.
Chicken and turkey costumes are sure to put a little scratch in your step on Poultry Day. But you can get even more creative on this day of tribute to the edible bird; how about dressing up as a larger-than-life egg cooked sunny side up? Or, Humpty Dumpty or a big pastel Easter egg or a sugary yellow marshmallow Peep chick. Other fun Halloween costumes that will get folks clucking on Poultry Day include a white-bearded and black string tie Colonel Sanders costume inspired by the KFC restaurant chain or a Cock Fighter costume that looks like a huge chicken in a prize fighter costume.
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