Well it turns out we all owe our infatuations to a 66.7 million years old duck/chicken like bird officially named Asteriornis maastrichtensis. after the Greek Titan goddess Asteria.  But you can call her  Wonderchicken . Oh, she was a tough little bird: she survived an asteroid impact which wiped out the dinosaurs. I dunno about her range and/or her ceiling; but she must have been a very pretty little thing, eh? 

source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/world/wonderchicken-fossil-modern-birds-scn/index.html

 

Edited March 19, 20206 yr by CYXR

Even better than CNN (which doesn't say much) ! 

 

The reason it survived for a good while, is that at the time, plants were in their infancy and so it was not possible to find eleven herbs and spices. Nor was the land mass known as North America fully formed, thus there was no Kentucky, nor an indigenous Colonel around to gather the requisite herbs and spices had they been available.

The fact that man had not yet discovered fire at that point either, would also have presented a bit of a problem where frying stuff was concerned. Nor had the bucket been created, and certainly not the bargain bucket, because money hadn't been thought of as a concept either. Last but not least, the magnetic poles would have been elsewhere on Earth at that time, and North Western Fried Chicken just doesn't have the right ring to it, does it?

I'm sure it would have been finger-lickin' good had these things been about though.

Edited March 19, 20206 yr by Chock

I gotta tell you Chock, that's one of the best posts I've seen anywhere in years..........Doug

8 hours ago, Chock said:

The reason it survived for a good while, is that at the time, plants were in their infancy and so it was not possible to find eleven herbs and spices. Nor was the land mass known as North America fully formed, thus there was no Kentucky, nor an indigenous Colonel around to gather the requisite herbs and spices had they been available.

The fact that man had not yet discovered fire at that point either, would also have presented a bit of a problem where frying stuff was concerned. Nor had the bucket been created, and certainly not the bargain bucket, because money hadn't been thought of as a concept either. Last but not least, the magnetic poles would have been elsewhere on Earth at that time, and North Western Fried Chicken just doesn't have the right ring to it, does it?

I'm sure it would have been finger-lickin' good had these things been about though.

Bravo!

And when a caveman ate one what did he say it tasted like?

Ugh?

2 hours ago, KevinMM said:

And when a caveman ate one what did he say it tasted like?

Well he said it tasted like dinosaur, of course.  

On ‎3‎/‎19‎/‎2020 at 6:21 AM, Chock said:

I'm sure it would have been finger-lickin' good had these things been about though.

Thanks Chock, I needed a good laugh today!