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