From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!mcnc!idis!mi-cec!dvk Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Psychological Distance Article-I.D.: mi-cec.107 Posted: Fri Jun 25 11:08:27 1982 Received: Mon Jun 28 04:52:02 1982 References: nsc.180 About chicken: a comment was made that probably chicken was a "low class" food. Currently in the US that may be the case, but up until recently, chicken was the food of the aristocrat. Only with the advent of modern farming techniques have chickens been raised exclusively as food. Until the (approx) 1930's-40's they were mostly bred for eggs. As an aside, speaking of psychology and snob appeal, the more expensive varieties of "chicken" (i.e. squab [pigeon], rock cornish game hen [pigeon]) are more expensive, and don't taste as good. Another aside: consider the psychological turning-aside-of-reality of these nice names: sweetbreads [brains] lights [lungs] tripe [stomach] mountain oysters [testicles, of all things!] -Dan Klein