My husband and I were driving down I-65, still in Tennessee but near the Alabama border, when the statue of a giant chicken caught my eye. It was standing in front of a truck stop near Elkton. Where its wings should be are a giant fork and a giant carving knife. The combination makes for a troubling message: chicken as both dinner and diner. It is also covered with graffiti, mostly people’s names but also an exhortation to “Read More.” Unlike the existential conflict at the heart of the chicken’s identity, that’s a message I had no trouble decoding.

Source: New York Times August 25, 2018 16:10 UTC