Caldwell Mayor Garret Nancolas isn’t sure why he got mixed up in an animal rights group’s mission to change the name of Chicken Dinner Road to something it thinks is more poultry-friendly, but he decided to share his opinion about it on Facebook late Wednesday night.
“When I first received the letter, I thought it was a joke, I literally laughed! When I realized the letter was for real, it made me extremely irritated that they would waste our time with such a ridiculous request!,” he wrote in a message posted at 10:45 p.m.
PETA, which stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, sent the mayor and local media a letter on Wednesday. It asked the mayor to change the road name to “one that celebrates chickens as individuals, not as beings to kill, chop up, and label as ‘dinner.’”
Chicken Dinner Road is not in Caldwell’s jurisdiction; it’s a rural road in Canyon County.
“Even if it was (in Caldwell’s jurisdiction), NO WAY, NO CHANCE I would ever consider this truly unbelievable request! We have many issues to consider, but this IS NOT one of them!” Nancolas wrote.
On social media, PETA said the name was “speciesist,” and the organization hoped the road would be renamed, more simply, Chicken Road.
This led to swift responses from Idahoans and others on Twitter, most of whom thought this was a bizarre idea. Here’s some of what they wrote:
“Dear PETA, don’t cluck with our road. — Idaho.”
“Right now it just seems like there’s bigger fish to fry, um, I mean more important things to focus on.”
“Of all the things to worry about, this is soooooo stupid.”
“Oh my word @peta focus on real animal issues and not the name of a road in rural Idaho. Chicken Dinner Rd is a great name, leave it alone.”
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The reason why they hate it so is because there is an actual winner. There are no real winners under communism. A chicken dinner can’t go to the winner because he’s a racist, mysogynist, bigoted, homophobic, anti-LGBQTXYZ person since he is supposed to die in a horrible way because he doesn’t agree with everything I say and believe. There are no winners under communism…. just useful idiots.
Call it Useful Idiot Boulevard.
Make that useful dead idiots when they’re thru with them. Are there any KFC’s or Chick-fil-A’s etc. on Chicken Dinner Road?
Does that road intersect with Winner Winner Way?
Wait until they hear about Roast Meat Hill Rd in Killingworth Connecticut.
Attack everything no matter how trivial, keep punching away in every direction to make the squares uncomfortable in their own surroundings. Create an atmosphere of distrust and paranoia so they doubt everything they took for granted.
Make their every day as miserable as possible to weaken their resolve. When they’re finally broken eliminate them without mercy.
You have your orders all of you flying monkeys now take to the skies!
Are we paying for these morons’ existence because they apparently have no time or inclination to provide for theirselves.
Dear mentally unstable ones,
We’ve taken your suggestion to heart and put the issue to a vote. The townspeople were unanimously in favor of renaming the road to something more reflective of their true feelings.
Henceforth, Chicken Dinner Road shall be renamed “Dead PETA Highway”.
Tofu Dinner Road?
Changing to Chicken Crossing Rd.
‘Tasty Chicken Dinner’
Much better
Yardbird parkway
Colonel Sanders Boulevard
Why did the chicken get all dressed up to cross Chicken Dinner Road? Because he didn’t want to be late for dinner? Unless Chicken Little was already across the road screaming a warning that the chickens are roasting, the chickens are roasting and to run away. And the Little Red Hen was also asking who will bake the bread to go along with the chicken dinner and all the other animals told her to shut up since they were hungry for a nice, juicy, delicious chicken dinner and since the Little Red Hen wouldn’t shut up they killed her and ate her too.
Makes one wonder…
Is there a Avenida Pollo Con Arroz in Mexico?
Is there a Boulevard Coquille St Jacque in Quebec?
Is there a Scrapple The Other Gray Meat Street inthe Pennsylvania Dutch Country?
How about Chick-Fil-A Way?
Name it ‘PETA got squashed trying to cross to the other side” road!
If they changed PETA to Petco, it could be people eating tasty chickens only.
PETA = Petulant and Annoying Total Assholes
My favorite license plate of all time was on a Dodge P/U truck from Minnesota which said PETA SUX.
Name it PETA ESAD Road.