Adrian_Thompson wrote:fasted58 wrote: Feathers... who knew?That's a joke right? They've know Dino's were featherd for at lest 15 years now. I've e-mailed this to my 15 year old. She'll freak. She hasn't grown out the child hood Dino fascination and I can see her being a Dino artist when older.
Feathers... taste like chicken?
nevermind
fasted58 wrote: Feathers... taste like chicken? nevermind
Chicken = Bird = modern day dino
So sure, tastes like chicken to me.
Who want's Dinosaur for dinner tonight?
Adrian_Thompson wrote:fasted58 wrote: Feathers... taste like chicken? nevermindChicken = Bird = modern day dino So sure, tastes like chicken to me. Who want's Dinosaur for dinner tonight?
More than stopping Hitler or talking to the original Buddha or starting a family trust and bank accounts in the 1700's(compound interest x 300 years = comfortable modern life), I want a time machine so that I can taste dinosaur.
I'm curious if it would be gamey chickenish like alligator is because cold blooded, or "beefy" because some dinos were essentially armored cows.
RevRico wrote:Adrian_Thompson wrote:More than stopping Hitler or talking to the original Buddha or starting a family trust and bank accounts in the 1700's(compound interest x 300 years = comfortable modern life), I want a time machine so that I can taste dinosaur. I'm curious if it would be gamey chickenish like alligator is because cold blooded, or "beefy" because some dinos were essentially armored cows.fasted58 wrote: Feathers... taste like chicken? nevermindChicken = Bird = modern day dino So sure, tastes like chicken to me. Who want's Dinosaur for dinner tonight?
Depends on the dynosaur. Short answer is that it depends on the dinosaur and you're mostly wrong on both accounts. Most dinosaurs were proto-birds and would be warm blooded and probably taste like chicke, emu, ostrich, or some other bird.
From what I can remember from back when I was a dinosaur obsessed lad... there are a lot of different animals labeled as "dinosaur" that lived in very different periods and were likely not related to each other at all. Often referred to as the "bird hipped" dinosaurs and the "lizard hipped" dinosaurs. For example, this picture is totally absurd:
Tyrannosaurus lived ~68 million years ago, and Stegosaurus lived ~150 million years ago. That's over 80 million years apart. A Tyrannosaurus lived closer to the modern day than it did to Stegosaurus.
In any case, the bird-hipped dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus were basically proto birds and would probably taste most like a wild emu or wild ostrich. The lizard hipped dinosaurs (like the above stegosaurus) I'm not sure if we know whether they were warm or cold blooded or what.
Also, alligators are even more of modern dinosaurs than birds are. Alligators appeared in the Paleocene epoch which predates the Cretaceous period (when Tyrannosaurus appeared), and they've changed much less than birds have from being dinosaurs. We call all these things "dinosaurs" even though they were wholly different evolutionary chains.
fasted58 wrote:Adrian_Thompson wrote:Feathers... taste like chicken? nevermindfasted58 wrote: Feathers... who knew?That's a joke right? They've know Dino's were featherd for at lest 15 years now. I've e-mailed this to my 15 year old. She'll freak. She hasn't grown out the child hood Dino fascination and I can see her being a Dino artist when older.
That has been speculated on by Isaac Assimov in his story "A Statue for Father"
A theoretical physicist and his son work on the theory of time travel, and experiment with a method of reaching back into time and retrieving objects (as also occurs in "The Ugly Little Boy" and "Button, Button").
More by serendipity than design, they manage to retrieve a nest of dinosaur eggs which in due course hatch. They keep on working but are unable to repeat the experiment. In the meantime, the dinosaurs grow and are kept as pets. But when one of them accidentally gets electrocuted, they can't resist tasting the flesh beneath the scales and find that it tastes delicious.
The two men decide to raise the dinosaurs to be killed for food and open the first of a successful chain of restaurants dedicated to serving "dinachicken.".
The ironic twist of the title is that the physicist is remembered not for his scientific achievements, but for his culinary discovery.
External links[edit]
M2Pilot wrote: Years ago I bought the spouse a piece of amber jewelry with a bug in it. I think I liked it better than she did.
I would bet money you liked it more than she did:)
You'll need to log in to post.
