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Chicken Balls… Delicious


assume the chicken is a sphere

This one’s easy. It’s what the CEO of White Castle says when you ask, “What the eff is a chicken ring*?

*Sadly, these no longer exist.

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  1. OneHappyAtheist says:

    Spherical cow!!! W00t!

  2. Katie says:

    We still have chicken rings at Arctic Circle, a chain in Utah. Not recommended though.

    • Gaz says:

      They also have chicken rings at Dollar Tree. My sister says they’re awesome but I’ve yet to try them. I’m skepitcal of dollar store food…

  3. rlcrock says:

    I think this is referring to the old physics trick of assume it is a sphere so the calculations are easier. We do it all the time with horses, cows, pretty much anything.

  4. Megan says:

    …in a frictionless vacuum.

  5. Craig says:

    It’s a famous engineering assumption. Means the centre of gravity is the centre of the chicken sphere. Then BAM! No inertia.

    • alex says:

      well done craig, you managed to resist the temptation to be a dick, and actually, although first, speak about the search-well done!
      anyway, what idiot searches this

  6. zarrand says:

    I particularly enjoyed the electricity & magnetism problems where you’d assume the cow was spherical.

  7. GlowingApple says:

    The original joke is about spherical cows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow), but The Big Bang Theory just made a similar joke this past week using spherical chickens. I’m guessing that’s why the Google hits ramped up.

  8. Tim says:

    of course, said chicken is also in a vacuum, eliminating air resistance.

  9. jackie31337 says:

    I thought it was a physics joke involving a farmer asking scientists of various disciplines for advice.

  10. Sara says:

    I remember the joke from 10th grade physics. The chemist, the biologist and the physicist are invited to help a dairy farmer find the reason why his cows’ milk production has dropped significantly. At final presentation time, the biologist has anatomy presentations, enzyme structures and complex breakdowns of the ingredients in the feed. The chemist has soil sample readings, antibiotic tests, and reams of data. The physicist walks to the podium alone, pulls out a marker, and draws a circle, and says “So this is the cow…”

    The joke, for those who had less dorky teachers, is that physicists simplify and simplify until nothing they do has any meaning in the real world anymore. Hence a spherical chicken. No chicken has the same center of gravity, but you’d go utterly insane if you tried to account for that kind of chaos in predicting their motion….

  11. Tom says:

    We still have chicken rings at the White Castles in Minnesota. And they are still delicious.

  12. Yahoo! says:

    Minnesota FTW! :D


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