Waiting on subway platforms can be boring, so why not pass the time jumping down into the tracks to play chicken with oncoming trains? It's unclear exactly when this video was taken (the winter clothing suggests it wasn't any time in the past week), but we can all agree that such sensationally stupid behavior is timeless. Watch as a group of boisterous adolescents leap up and down into the track bed in a competition to see who will be the idiot who comes closest to getting killed: more ›

Just two weeks after the Humane Society filed suit against McDonald's over claims that their pork producer horribly abused the pigs used in the McRib sandwich, another animal rights group is coming forward with a video showing the Mickey D's egg supplier grossly mistreating their chickens, and McDonald's isn't taking it lightly. more ›

Remember a couple years back Oprah decided to offer up some free KFC and it almost sparked a riot? Get ready to make some more memories with the Colonel, because tomorrow there's gonna be free KFC original recipe chicken being doled out of a food truck courtesy of Country Music Television. Apparently it's to promote this show with a guy and his mobile food lab, which sounds sort of like Breaking Bad but without the meth. more ›

Rosh Hashanah is here which means Yom Kippur is around the corner and you know what that means? Time for the annual protests of the annual chicken swinging ritual known as kapparot. The generally fatal chicken "swinging" and slaughtering most often performed on the day before Yom Kippur (but can be held anytime between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) and has some very vocal adversaries. Opponents, who this year advertised briefly in Times Square, aren't against the ritual so much as they're against the chicken killing. more ›

First there was Lady Gaga's meat dress, and now Nicki Minaj has donned a fried chicken necklace at the IHeartRadio Festival over the weekend. The hot pink piece is probably not real? But it has people worked up, including one writer who says, "As an African American woman I am aware of certain black stereotypes such as 'black people love chicken'... While I’m positive eating the certain poultry couldn’t be that evil, is wearing a piece of chicken around your neck satire or ignorance?" more ›

Well, this is interesting. Chipotle, the "fast-casual" burrito chain we once said we "can't bring ourselves to hate," is expanding its menu to include chorizo, though it's not like any chorizo we've ever heard of. more ›

Residents of a charmingly developed Greenpoint block are up in arms (and disembodied chicken parts) over the poultry slaughterhouse smack-dab in the middle of everything that they claim is dirty, smelly, and loud. The horror! more ›

Despite the fact that high-end burgers have been a big thing for some time now, maybe you've noticed that fast food joints seem intent on getting you to eat poultry? The fad food of 2010 was unquestionably KFC's Double Down after all, not Burger King's pizza burger. And it turns out there is a reason for that! Because of the rising costs of food, chicken is a better financial bet for chains, which is why they have been pushing it for a few years now. more ›

This whole "organic" food trend may be onto something! According to a new study from the University of Georgia, organic chickens have a far lower chance of carrying salmonella than conventionally-raised chickens. more ›

Manhattan DA Cy Vance wants you to know he is tough on crime. So tough, in fact, that today he personally went before a judge to read the charges his office is bringing forth against 14 members of the "137th Street Crew," an alleged Harlem gang. "This isn't just about a threat to safety and our streets," Vance explained in a conference earlier today. The crew "targeted children and young teenagers to hold and transport firearms of individual gang members." more ›

The annual chicken sacrificing ritual known as kaparot that takes place around this time of year (near Yom Kippur) always gets the demonstrators out. According to the NY Post, the ASPCA is the latest to step up to the protest plate, and a Brooklyn man says they all but forced him to stop the tradition at his place of business yesterday. more ›

Last month the Brooklyn Heights Key Food got some bad press after the supermarket sold some D’Artagnan chicken that was old and spoiled—the customer who bought it on May 12th said, "The ‘sell by’ date on the label said May 16... But the dopes left the original ‘sell by’ sticker underneath it: May 5. Eleven days earlier." Now the very same Key Food is back in the spotlight over bad labeling once again. And this time it's personal seafood. more ›

A customer at a Brooklyn Heights Key Food says the supermarket intentionally sold her some D’Artagnan chicken that was old and spoiled, simply by slapping a new expiration sticker on the expired package. "I got it home [on May 12], cut off the wrapping and smelled something wrong immediately," customer Marie Viljoen tells the Brooklyn Paper. "The ‘sell by’ date on the label said May 16. … But the dopes left the original ‘sell by’ sticker underneath it: May 5. Eleven days earlier." The dopes at the Atlantic Avenue Key Food deny this, and say Viljoen is just trying to shake them down. more ›

As you may have heard, today KFC rolls out a new food product, The Double Down. It is a sandwich with two chicken fillets instead of bread slices; in between you will find two pieces of bacon, melted slices of Monterey Jack and Pepper Jack cheese and the Colonel's sauce (which is akin to mayo). The Double Down also comes with 540 calories, 32 grams of fat, 1,380 milligrams of sodium, and definitively wipes away any remaining crumbs of moderation or dignity left on the American bib. But does it live up to the hype? more ›

More animals are terrorizing our streets! This time chickens have taken over the 1300 block of Edward L. Grant Highway in the Bronx (safe from eagles and coyotes... for now). According to the Daily News, there are like 30 chickens on Highbridge Street! A local tells them, "They're all over the place. Walking up the street like they belong there." Kids are feeding them chocolate chip cookies, they're sleeping in trees, mingling with squirrels... it's chaos! more ›

Did you read the NY Times profile piece on newsman Ernie Anastos? In it, the paper puts him face-to-face with his famous on-air fumble, at which point Anastos suggested a rehash of the "dead story" did not belong in the piece... but the Gray Lady disagreed! So there are many paragraphs dedicated to getting down to the bottom of WTF he meant exactly, when he said "Keep fucking that chicken" during the September 16th broadcast last year. more ›

One Park Slope family is fretting after losing one of their chickens. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Rebecca Lax and her two daughters just procured two of the feathered friends to provide them with fresh eggs from their backyard on 6th Avenue and 1st Street—but upon getting them home, one flew the coop! more ›

New York City's transformation from affluent global capital to agrarian provincial backwater continues apace: Now people are packing into the subway with their barnyard animals. Last night blogger "Kylie" was riding the 6 train with a chicken and the man (Borat?) who loves it. Oh, horse apples, the guy's even wearing an MTA shirt! Good thing there weren't any hamsters on board, or things really would have gotten crazy. Kylie tells us: more ›

Oh dear. A reader just sent in the above photo and tells us, "On my way to work this morning, I spotted a sacrificed chicken on the steps of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception at the corner of Maujer and Leonard in Williamsburg." Clearly it's not for Kapparot. This leaves a few other options: Santeria, an offering from the nearby Cult of Michael Jackson, Twilight marketing. more ›

This week in the Times, Sam Sifton reviews the newly-opened midtown outpost of French mini-chain Le Relais de Venise L’Entrecote, which serves just drinks, salad, fries, steak, and dessert. "Women in French maid outfits serve the stuff as if they were characters in an early Preston Sturges film," says Sifton. "And you know what? It’s terrific." Meanwhile, the Times's Oliver Strand is in Williamsburg to rave about the gourmet sandwich shop Saltie, from veterans of Marlow & Sons and Diner: "It’s a lot of talent for one cramped kitchen. So they overachieve." (He also has kind words for Crosby Connection and Barros Luco.) more ›

Yesterday the Farm Sanctuary aided in the rescue of a chicken that would have otherwise been part of the sacrificial slaughter during the Jewish ritual of kaparot. They tell us the chicken was saved in Crown Heights, and later named Chesed, meaning mercy or loving-kindness in Hebrew. He joined the over 200 other NYC chickens the organization has rescued from this ritual over the past three years. more ›

With Yom Kippur coming up this Monday, South Williamsburg will be the stage for many a sacrificial chicken slaughter on Sunday. The Jewish ritual known as kapparot raises eyebrows each year, and now Dr. Allan Kornberg, Executive Director for Farm Sanctuary, has released a statement. more ›

St. Albans, Queens is on high alert this morning as a fugitive chicken runs wild through the community. A report just came in over the wires that an Emergency Services Unit is on the scene and trying to "coral" [sic] the loose chicken somewhere in the vicinity of Linden Boulevard and 197th Street. It's unclear why the chicken is crossing roads in Queens, but residents are strongly advised to remain indoors and prepare for this weekend's avalanche of neighborhood fowl jokes. Developing... more ›

Well, we had a good run. Today KFC has made the unsurprising decision to suspend its Oprah-backed grilled chicken giveaway. The overwhelming nationwide demand for free food had depleted KFC's chicken supply to such a degree that the company was actually going to run out of chicken before Mother's Day, which is said to be the chain's most lucrative business day. In this awkwardly upbeat video, KFC president Roger Eaton—who has the weirdest Kentucky accident we've ever heard—explains the crisis, now entering day three: more ›

If the demand for the free grilled chicken combo meal continues at its current pace, KFC could run out of chicken by Saturday. An anonymous source explains why to Business Insider: "The stores cannot cook the product fast enough, sales were up 25-35% BEFORE this. A franchisee today told me KFC is projected to strip their entire supply chain of bird by Saturday. I am not making that up. They are scrambling to source more chicken before Sunday. By Sunday, because it's Mothers Day, one of their busiest days of the year. It's possible they could be out of chicken on Mothers Day." more ›