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This poll did not include the real answer, the oysters!!

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Okay, agreed. But ten oysters is not really a meal.

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I agree, but I also bet that somewhere out there is a fancy restaurant serving like, 2 oysters and some specks of foam as a $65 entree.

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Snot with a squeeze of lemon and a side of hepatitis?

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Hahhaa accurate even though I like oysters (shellfish) but I'm talking about chicken oysters, the most delicious part of the chicken.

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OK> I confess. This was a new term for me and finally I Googled it. And I had been speaking prose all this time and did not know it. We get chickens from Giant and eat the legs and the breast and when it get down to a pile of bones our pup and I have a "chicken feed" where I carefully strip every bit that we can eat and carefully put the bones where the pup can not get to them and I do know thee dark meat parts off the back of the chicken. On the farm "oyster" was about calf parts. Male calf parts. "Rocky Mountain Oysters." And I still do not know what they taste like.

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THANK you. This is what I came to post.

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Should anyone disagree, you can easily and assertively point to the French colloquial term for them,"sot-l'y-laisse." Which literally means, "a fool leaves it." As might be imagined, the French are rather free with their insults when it comes to food. Being called a fool for ignoring chicken "oysters" is one of the milder ones.

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That's the trouble with old Jewish guys. They all look alike. And like chicken --- that's required. Actually you look more like Albert Einstein, relativity speaking. A well-known phenomenon: among aging Jewish writers, roast chicken literary polyps are often found during columnoscopies.

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"That's the trouble with old Jewish guys. They all look alike."

I resemble that remark.

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His name is Dave Roffe. He's one of the guys from Old Jewish Men, which is an Instagram, a Substack, I guess a Tiktok, and a clothing line. (He's also the grandfather of Bryan Reisberg, the human caretaker of Internet Famous Corgi Maxine.)

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Thank you.

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He is excellent advertising for Costco. If they don't pay him, he's meshugga.

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Someone should persuade the Costco Chicken Guy to record a rant against curry seasoning.

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Do I have to eat all five pieces of chicken straight away or can I pace myself?

If I don’t have to consume all immediately, the obvious answer is breast because you get no bones.

If I do have to consume all immediately, wings might make sense. I don’t want to overload my stomach.

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I love the way you described Rachel’s reaction! Nonono..😆

But no, you don’t look like the weird chicken guy. Maybe in 20 years if you work at it really hard. 😉

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Sorry, no reflected glory for you from the Costco Chicken Guy (who you do not resemble, 'cept maybe to a legally blind person). Has anyone asked the real CCG what the effect of the barcode reader radiation, so lethal to already-dead chicken, is to his chest?

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I had that same thought regarding the barcodes, but I guess that is where the colonoscopies come into play?

We should really stop trying to make any of this make sense.

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Gene, no matter what Rachel says, you look better than Donald Trump ever will, and so does the Costco chicken guy. You also both have better character than he could ever hope for! Solace!

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The Costco rotisserie chickens look better than TFG!! (and infinitely more useful)

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I'm a vegetarian and I still emphatically agree that a chicken carcass is more appealing and useful than that, thing.

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It's the difference between chicken and chicken shit.

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Did the person who misidentified Gene as the Costco chicken guy look like a Costco chicken?

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"under the condition that you can only eat one part -- the same part -- of each chicken."

The oysters.

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I think the guy who called you the “chicken man” was a Trump plant. Demoralize the free press!

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Free?? Pay up, man!! 😁

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That was almost sweet that part about rachel having to introduce you as her romantic partner. touching, even. And made me feel REALL Y SORRY FOR HER> BTW>my husband of 44 years is so goodlooking ( and kind and funny and smart and a bit loopy) he is regularly mistaken for Paul Newman. Ok, he;s dead but still.

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I have often been physically compared to Paul Newman, too.

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As in, well he's certainly no Paul Newman?

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Precisely

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Spitting image. 😜

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Ptooey!!!

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DAMN! I though David Crosby was long dead, but he only LOOKS like it!

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So he thinks the scanner will poison the chicken, but not his chest and heart?

I suspect your suggestion that he is an invention of the website sounds right to me. But it is a funny shtick.

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Dave Barry sent me. You can blame him.

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