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I'd like to eat the chickens

I prefer chicken to pork. Why can't we eat the chickens? Then, when they started creeping me out by following me up ladders, I could take my hatchet and behead them, then turn them into fried chicken. Or chicken and dumplings, or chicken strips, or a chicken salad, or chicken nuggets, or bbq chicken, or chicken burgers...

Posted 19 months ago by Essie Kitten Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I would surely join you at a picnic.
    Posted 19 months ago by Poney Tails Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just to clarify, my chicken burgers comment is in no way, shape, or form supposed to be directed at the absolutely adorable chicken-suited hburger. I would never cook her up and eat her. That would be wrong.
    Posted 19 months ago by Essie Kitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Since there's no killing of piggies in glitch, I guess you'd just take a nibble out of the chickens too. It would certainly make them more useful. Unless  you're incubating eggs, they don't really have much use. The little grain you get out of them is not worth it since you can grow it in much larger quantities in your garden.
    Posted 19 months ago by FrankenPaula Subscriber! | Permalink
  • eh, I dunno, meat is meat, you know?

    but I *do* like the idea that we be able to hassle and harass the chickens, or otherwise interact with them. personally I would like to be able to scare a chicken or piggy and cause it to flee by making the grr face at the poor scared animal.
    Posted 19 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • FrankenPaula - I'd wager my AK7 against your garden in a grain producing contest any day :) 5 grain x 5 squeezes per chicken adds up really friggin fast.

    I too would enjoy a way to 'process' not only chickens, but pigs and butterflies as well (I threw some ideas out about potential by-products and uses somewhere). I think it provides a valuable missing link (a way for players to undo what other players have done) and opens a new dynamic to the game.

    I'm terrified Glitch is going to become the sanitized, sensitive, politically correct nightmare some people seem inclined to want it to be (and that is not intended as a slight to anyone in particular, just a general observed overtone) - where nothing ever dies, nothing ever gets killed, nothing ever decays, nothing ever gets old or sick or injured. Boring! Next stop - another campaign against no-no and hooch, or will it be another religious bent someone has placed on the Giants? Stuff can die in Glitch - and stuff dieing is essentially harmless, I like it the world includes that element.
    Posted 19 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1,000 Trav! Well said. I'm getting a little tired of people wanting everything to be completely PC and sensitive.

    Yes, it's a non-violent game, but that doesn't mean it's non-everything else as well.
    Posted 19 months ago by Jhennauchan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Dying's part of life. Part of the game. Nonviolent among the people is great (LOVE that) but I don't mind that the trees and animals die sometimes. I'm not a big demolisher, you understand; I just acknowledge it's part of the game. Having said that, and letting you know I could never ever do it in real life, for some reason, I would love to be able to take my hatchet and whack the chickens' heads off. Mainly because they are so saucy, and as sc803 suggests, would be a fun source of other food:) Can you imagine the badges for whacking up chickens? LOL Hen Whacker Extraordinaire
    Posted 19 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree, I'd love to be able to use the chickens as a source of food in Glitch, but I don't think the hatchet to the chicken would be very... Glitch?  Not that I'm against animal death etc. etc. in the game (or real life for that matter), but we don't even butcher our pigs so it doesn't quite fit IMO.  Maybe plucking the chickens or something similar would be more suited.  Now watch.  The chickens are going to band together, find themselves an ancient source of hydrocarbons somewhere, and then start tarring and feathering unwary glitches.  And then the feathers will really fly...  Or rather stick.  LOL!
    Posted 19 months ago by Marebito Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Perhaps chickens could give us drumsticks, adding a new musical element to the game.
    Posted 19 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just listed listed using a hatchet on the chicken because it's a tool we already have, in a manner that's already used IRL. I don't care much how it would be Glitchified, I just want the option to kill chickens and eat them. :D
    Posted 19 months ago by Essie Kitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Perhaps plucking chickens gives you the quills you need for penmanship.
    Posted 19 months ago by Meezles Mxylpyx Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't like the idea of killing things, especially animals, which is why I like nibbling piggies to get meat (I like meat - I am a hypocrite!)

    However, I can't see why people shouldn't be able to kill chickens if they want to.  Maybe there should be some in-between option, like you get one or two legs or wings or something, or you can just whack it and get a whole roast!
    Posted 19 months ago by Cassandria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you leave your piggies at home with nothing to eat, you can return to a pile of meat instead, so things can die here. Except, apparently, the zombie chickens. I'm mostly vegetarian in real life. I've been known to occasionally have a little chicken or a slice of bacon, but meat is nowhere near a staple of my diet. 

    That being said, I can't really see the practicality of your option of getting "one or two legs or wings or something" unless you want to see mangled chickens in game :D I'd rather just whack it with a hatchet and have it turn into a nice pile of chicken parts that I can either eat raw like the pork chops, or use in meals.
    Posted 19 months ago by Essie Kitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mmmm...chicken! One of my favorite things to eat irl!
    Would be very cool to be able to have different recipes added using chicken

    +!000 for this thread, sc!
    Posted 19 months ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I vote for chicken nibbles (McNuggets?) and the ability to pluck those plucky birds!

    We could use the feathers to tickle others with, or as quills for writing, or to make pillows...
    Posted 19 months ago by Spayem Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the idea of chicken nibbles.  That was really what I meant by wings and legs - something that didn't kill the chicken. (I know, I know, they are only pixels!  I still don't like to kill them!)  :-(
    Posted 19 months ago by Cassandria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Travinara, you've got me curious now. I'll have to test that next game. Of course, I'm high garden skill and low animal skills so that would skew it. In any case, it seems more efficient to plant that seed, water it, and go off to do something else than to be busy chasing a chicken around the yard. :)

    As for the sanitation. I would like the game to stay non-violent. I like no-no powder, beer, and the humor in the game. I don't want to sanitize it. But, I do want it to stay non-violent. That's just my play preference. I like the fact that I nibble the piggies and they thank me and give me meat. I'm ok with the rook killing things if we don't work fast enough to counter his influence. Or with things dying of neglect. That is part of life. I just don't want to go around killing chickens.
    Posted 19 months ago by FrankenPaula Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There's so much brouhaha around killing trees, I can't imagine what would happen if if there were a "decapitate" or "wring neck" menu option on a chicken.  Plus it's just...inconsistent. You off 'em all or none of them, why should piggies get a free pass from mortality? The issue of neglect notwithstanding...and I am not saying we shouldn't be able to benignly harvest from chickens, like we do now.

    As it is, piggies and chicken feed Glitches indefinitely, given enough petting/feeding/watering, it's like they are made up of HELA cells.  Aren't they eventually going to get a rest after a long productive life, and get to go to piggie/chicken heaven, where they can spend eternity nibbling troughs full of miniature marzipan Glitches?
    Posted 19 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Nibbling a chicken could produce edible nuggets.  The composition of nuggets would never be explicitly revealed, of course.
    Posted 19 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "The composition of nuggets would never be explicitly revealed, of course."


    LOL, this might be too much like RL!
    Posted 19 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Haha Nanookie my mind thought the same thing :P
    Posted 19 months ago by Gabi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Jamie Oliver would be mortified.
    Posted 19 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would be happy with the option of "nibbling" my chickens and getting some "chicken tenders" in return that I could then use in recipes if killing is too violent. I just want to eat the chickens :D
    Posted 19 months ago by Essie Kitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Gabi and glum: you know in other countries it's considered a good thing to eat every gnawable part of a creature, sometimes while it's still alive.  In other countries if you eat an animal's face or naughty bits, you are considered practical and unwasteful in the most complimentary way...but when a bunch of Americans take all the strange bits and put them in a blender to make a handy sculptable paste, and add the genius innovation of a hot crispy coating...we get served up a buffet of opprobrium.   

    It's not fair, really.
    Posted 19 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very true Nanookie, not that I would exactly be first in line to try those parts (known here as offal I believe). My "stretch" was trying duck and rabbit in December haha.
    Posted 19 months ago by Gabi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You know I was just tongue in cheek about whacking the chickens with a hatchet, right? It just...just sounds funny to me. Especially if they ran around headless for a while. I really do love animals and would never harm one in real life. In fact, I don't kill the trees in here overmuch, just now and then. Of course if we could kill a chicken, we'd have to be able to kill the other animals. I really wouldn't want that, either. Just...those...those chickens...they're kinda creepy and impertinent. ;) I like the idea of "plucking" them to get nuggets.
    Posted 19 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If any of you every grew up on a farm you would know the plucking chickens is a wet, stinky, and nasty job.No thank you! I would rather eat butterfly wings. Later,
    Posted 19 months ago by Mater Subscriber! | Permalink