My wife and I are watching a documentary about how big business made us fat, [quote] "...one and three-quarter million chicken wings are eaten every day in the USA."
"What happened to the other wing?" I asked.
"What?" My precious asked, I should have known that I was on dangerous ground.
"Wings generally come in twos, one and three-quarter million is an odd number. Have they genetically diddled with the chickens?" There I should have stopped.
"If they bred chickens that only had one wing it works, but that's not the way that they do things is it? We want wings ergo the more the better. One and three-quarter million is deffo divisible by five, that would be my number of wings."
"The thing might not fly, or it might fly in an odd way, mashing itself into walls...", I was told to stop talking at this point.
Her face was a picture of a strange pain, "will you shut the fuck up! And, please make sense, any number that ends with a zero is divisible by two."
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I don't think the wings of USA chickens were ever the sort of wings which made a chicken capable of flight.
Glad to see other people have these conversations.
And yes, evidently divisible by two.
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Hmm, but what about Buffalo wings, I've yet to see a big cow with wings but apparently they have them. Ergonomically or aerodynamically ( whichever is the correct word ) I can't see buffalo's being able to fly but I'm walking around looking upwards just in case and I have a hard hat on, also just in caseNew comment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/11/why-our-food-is-making-us-fat
There's an article about it in the guardian. What else to expect from a mathematician.
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Interesting article Shakeela - although I'm not sure I quite buy the assertion that we didn't take more exercise in the 60s - and even more before then ....we had to - in lots of little everyday ways apart from 'exercise' as 'exercise.'
And I'm sure it's not just sugar either - although that may be a factor, maybe for some more than others.
Most chickens - for example - don't look at all like they used to. Breasts are much more rounded and a different colour - opaque and yellowish-white now , not bony and blue-pink and transparent. There is much more fat on chickens - all over the body - than there used to be - unless they've been raised very naturally. Mass produced chickens don't get much exercise ....
Having watched Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's programme on mass produced chicken we only buy free range or organic now - and since we can't afford that too often we eat a lot less.
Sorry - I'm sure I'm boring everyone -