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The term "Rubber Chicken" is used disparagingly to describe the food served at political or corporate events, weddings, and other gatherings where there are a large number of guests who require serving in a short timeframe. Often, pre-cooked chicken is held at serving temperature for some time and then dressed with a sauce as it is served. Consequently, the meat may be tough or "rubbery". Someone who "travels the '''Rubber Chicken circuit'''" is said to do so by attending or making speeches at many such gatherings, often as part of [[political campaigning]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZk6DwAAQBAJ&q=rubber+chicken+circuit&pg=PA228|title=The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang|last=Barrett|first=Grant|date=2006-06-08|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-530447-3|language=en}}</ref> |
The term "Rubber Chicken" is used disparagingly to describe the food served at political or corporate events, weddings, and other gatherings where there are a large number of guests who require serving in a short timeframe. Often, pre-cooked chicken is held at serving temperature for some time and then dressed with a sauce as it is served. Consequently, the meat may be tough or "rubbery". Someone who "travels the '''Rubber Chicken circuit'''" is said to do so by attending or making speeches at many such gatherings, often as part of [[political campaigning]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZk6DwAAQBAJ&q=rubber+chicken+circuit&pg=PA228|title=The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang|last=Barrett|first=Grant|date=2006-06-08|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-530447-3|language=en}}</ref> |
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A rubber chicken is a prop used in comedy. The phrase is also used as a description for food served at speeches, conventions, and other large meetings, and as a metaphor for speechmaking.[citation needed]
Description
A Rubber Chicken is an imitation plucked fowl made in a latex injection mold.
Origins
The origin of the Rubber Chicken is obscure, but is possibly based on the use of Pig Bladders, which were inflated, attached to a stick and used as props or mock-weapons by jesters in the days before the development of plastic and latex. Chicken corpses were readily available; therefore jesters could employ them as variations of slapsticks.[1]
One account attributes the first use of a prop chicken to John Holmberg, the Swedish black-faced clown of the early 1900s. Holmberg would perform with his pockets full of fake food to mock the gluttony reportedly prevalent among the upper classes at the time.[2] A claim that the symbol originated during the French Revolution with soldiers hanging a chicken from their muskets for luck is printed on the tag of rubber chickens manufactured by Archie McPhee.[citation needed]
Food and speechmaking
The term "Rubber Chicken" is used disparagingly to describe the food served at political or corporate events, weddings, and other gatherings where there are a large number of guests who require serving in a short timeframe. Often, pre-cooked chicken is held at serving temperature for some time and then dressed with a sauce as it is served. Consequently, the meat may be tough or "rubbery". Someone who "travels the Rubber Chicken circuit" is said to do so by attending or making speeches at many such gatherings, often as part of political campaigning.[3]
References
- ^ "Farm Pop: Why the Rubber Chicken?". Modern Farmer. 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
- ^ Buck Wolf, Flight of the Floppy Fowl, ABCNews.com, 2000.
- ^ Barrett, Grant (2006-06-08). The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang. OUP USA. ISBN 978-0-19-530447-3.