
In the latest pretend controversy, sources tell me there aren’t any gay foxes allowed in the Chick-fil-A henhouse.
I don’t have all the details because I try not to read the news and only overheard bits and pieces of the story from a neighboring restaurant table, but apparently the CEO of Chick-fil-A said something like gays don’t like chicken or maybe shouldn’t be allowed to eat chicken or maybe can’t cook chicken near as well as heterosexuals. Apparently, chicken is a very straight meat.
I can imagine the headline:
Chicken Breast CEO Beats Breast Over Men Who Loathe Breasts
Then gay activists organized a boycott of Chick-fil-A demanding the CEO agree gays should be allowed to grill, fry, or Shake n’ Bake any chicken of their choosing, regardless of the chicken’s gender or sexual orientation.
Gays Boycott CEO After Call for Boycott of Boys Sharing Cots
But the boycott failed to take wing and cost Chick-fil-A very little in the way of chicken feed:
Gays Chicken Out as Paltry Poultry Boycott Disappoints
As a matter of fact, the calls for a boycott resulted in much stronger calls from Christian groups for a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.
Christians Who Like Chicken Oppose Chicks Who Like Chicks
Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day helped the company set an all-time sales record, and it’s inspiring to see what Americans can do when they decide to take action and rally around a really, really, really unimportant cause like donating tens of millions to a multi-billion dollar fast food restaurant. Now that we’ve crossed supporting Chick-fil-A off our list of causes, let’s use those same organizational skills and sense of unity to tackle that pesky energy crisis that’s been on our list since 1973, or at the very least prevent Vin Diesel from making any more movies.
I hope we don’t have to do a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day every year because it will only be a matter of time before mothers feel slighted at receiving the exact same number of appreciation days as a chicken franchise and Mother’s Day will expand to Mother’s Weekend.
Chick-fil-A’s stance has won so much publicity and new business, it won’t be long before other fast food restaurants follow suit.
Burger King Not Burger Queens
McDonald’s in McFlurry to McMake Ronald McDonald Less McFlamboyant
KFC Cries Fowl Over Claims Colonel Sanders Hid More Behind the Mustache than Just the Secret Recipe
Subway CEO: Gays Should Eat Fresh, Not Get Fresh
Following Chick-fil-A Controversy, Jack Delays Plans to Come Out of the Box
In defense of the CEO, I’ve been to numerous dinner parties thrown by gay friends and not even once did they serve chicken. Suspicious? Maybe. Enough evidence to draw a broad conclusion? Definitely.
In defense of the gay point of view, it does seems hypocritical of the CEO to take any stance on gay issues when the rooster seems like an especially gay bird.
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joehoover
August 6, 2012
The rooster gay? Doesn’t he have a harem of hens? Maybe they are just his ‘beard’, if it works for Tom Cruise…
She's a Maineiac
August 6, 2012
Ha! Love it, Joe.
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
I’m convinced the rooster’s infamous promiscuity is a overcompensating ruse.
joehoover
August 6, 2012
I just google imaged rooster, they are very flambouyant, I’ll go along with your analysis.
1pointperspective
August 6, 2012
It amazes me that you can take time away from your full time job writing headlines for the New York Post to write this blog! Quite the overachiever!
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
If their headlines were a little better, maybe I wouldn’t have given up on the news.
1pointperspective
August 7, 2012
I only speak for myself, but sadly the news fits into two categories – things I can poke fun at in a blog, and everything else.
Emily Cannell
August 6, 2012
Paul- this was your funniest post ever. Jack coming out of the box….
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
He’s been in there for way too long.
She's a Maineiac
August 6, 2012
Brilliant. As usual.
Ooh, how I love a pretend controversy! Helps take my mind of the more important things like Vin Diesel.
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
The number of pretend controversies has blunted any emotional impact of real controversies. I’m just not sure what to be offended by anymore.
She's a Maineiac
August 6, 2012
I find that if I can maintain a level of mild outrage about most human behavior, I’m good.
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
Scientists are now saying a mild dose of daily outrage is good for the heart.
becomingcliche
August 6, 2012
Like anyone would think Ronald McDonald was gay. All the trannies I know are WAY better with their makeup.
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
He does lay it on a bit thick.
Hippie Cahier
August 6, 2012
Far be it for me to further stir the pretend controversy, but are there any gay fox Muppets or roosters for that matter? There may be more to this than we know.
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
Don’t all the Muppets seem a bit gay?
Evy
August 6, 2012
So very Mcspot on! It’s always good to have something to laugh about!
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
Agreed.
HoaiPhai
August 6, 2012
Great post AGAIN! I have to admit that I had to google “Chick-fil-A” because we don’t have them up here in Santa’s Back Yard and it kind of sounds like a brand of instant poultry stuffing, doesn’t it? If the border guards will let me, maybe someday I’ll make the 180 mile round trip and check the out.
P.S. I admire your restraint in not penning a headline containing the word for a male chicken, and I don’t mean “rooster”.
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
I appreciate that someone realized I had the restraint to leave that word out when it was the most obvious word to start with.
HoaiPhai
August 6, 2012
It’s good to hear that someone else considers the word “capon” naughty.
pegoleg
August 7, 2012
Snort (Paul, please stick this comment about a comment under Hoai’s capon comment. Thanks)
Love & Lunchmeat
August 7, 2012
You also managed to mention Vin Diesel without mentioning “protein shakes”, and it must have been tempting. Restraint indeed…
zannyro
August 6, 2012
Mother’s day weekend? It could get a LOT worse….I know people who are now celebrating their “birthday week”….somebody get a net….
The Good Greatsby
August 6, 2012
I’ve ‘known’ people like that. I use ‘know’ in the past tense because I’ve chosen to no longer be friends with those people.
zannyro
August 6, 2012
LOL! Funny how that happens, isn’t it??
When someone expects a gift everyday of the week…well…it’s just over. If I’m going to lavish that kind of worshipful attention on someone…it’s going to be ME!
philosophermouseofthehedge
August 6, 2012
Just too funny. One of the best posts about the chicken scratch
Howlin' Mad Heather
August 6, 2012
I’m just surprised nobody did a joke involving legs and thighs here.
writerdood
August 6, 2012
LOL. Dammit man, you beat me too it. I should have checked your blog first.
The Good Greatsby
August 7, 2012
Great minds think alike. Also our minds apparently.
Tor Constantino, MBA (@torcon)
August 6, 2012
Brilliant post Paul! This reinforces your rightful place on the winning team of the 2nd Annual Blogging All-Star Challenge – the team you and I were on, won here’s the link in case you missed it: http://www.robshep.com/2012/07/30/second-annual-blogging-all-star-challenge/
The Good Greatsby
August 7, 2012
I try to win something every day so it feels great to get it out of the way so early in the morning.
Betsy Andrews Etchart
August 6, 2012
Hilarious. I’ve been thinking, and I’ve decided the only bird gayer than a rooster would be a rooster wearing a smoking jacket. Now I would hang out with HIM.
The Good Greatsby
August 7, 2012
I’m not sure what you’re implying about my smoking jacket.
anniez
August 6, 2012
This is totally awesome. I wish I could think of a cooler way to say that.
Tar-Buns @ Here and ThereSa
August 7, 2012
“In the latest pretend controversy.” Exactly! I’ve had enough of news coverage of such insipid non-events I could choke on a chicken leg. Don’t want to ruffle your feathers though.
Audrey
August 7, 2012
How you fit so many puns into a relatively short and sweet post is beyond me! Most impressive.
Kharma
August 7, 2012
Halarious!!!! Thank you for such a great laugh. Mind if I repost? Dont be a cock….let this hetero repost. 😉
Anna
August 7, 2012
I haven’t been paying much attention to the whole thing either, infact it was only through Memebase that I ever heard anything about it. Ah, Memebase, the most trustworthy news source in all the internet land. Maybe.
fishducky
August 7, 2012
I absolutely LOVED this post!!
Michelle Gillies
August 7, 2012
These are the best headlines ever. I would actually go back to reading a newspaper for headlines like these.
The Good Greatsby
August 7, 2012
Maybe I’ll start my own newspaper. Sources tell me that’s a growth industry.
Michelle Gillies
August 8, 2012
Not so much.
Spectra
August 11, 2012
-maybe you can get Dunder-Mifflin to supply the paper.
Evy
August 7, 2012
Oh my…I googled “capon”…no one would do this because it is the exact polar opposite to “off to market we go.” Something Chick-Fil-A certainly would never be a part of because those chickens are neither gay or gay!
susielindau
August 7, 2012
Hey! I thought it already was a Mother’s weekend.
The Good Greatsby
August 7, 2012
I knew it was only a matter of time.
Binky
August 7, 2012
Chocolate never takes sides on such issues. It just is.
The Good Greatsby
August 7, 2012
So wise. And delicious.
yellowcat
August 7, 2012
Pretend controversies are my favourite because they remind me the world is full of the same childish people I work with.
The Good Greatsby
August 7, 2012
That doesn’t make you feel discouraged?
lazylauramaisey
August 7, 2012
Interesting food for thought. Not sure why Chick-fil-A started spouting about gay stuff in the first place. Seems a little like a case of ‘The lady doth protest too much.’ Or rather, the chicken doth protest too much…? There’s definitely a closet homosexual hiding somewhere in all this.
The Good Greatsby
August 7, 2012
It certainly seems like the comment came out of nowhere. I don’t think society generally looks to fast food restaurants for moral guidance.
lazylauramaisey
August 8, 2012
Don’t they?….. (oo, that was pretty profound)
Dana
August 22, 2012
Thank goodness we have you to fill us in on all the non-issues of the world, Paul. I didn’t even know about Chick-fil-A before reading this post, let alone about all of the gay chicken controversy. I feel much more settled knowing that the world is still effed up as usual– phew!