He was pecked by a chicken once gathering eggs with his grandmother and they ate the bird that night for dinner.

Occasional This American Life contributor David Rakoff has a brilliant essay about the summer he spent tending to chickens on a kibbutz as a young teen, and how they were so vicious that ever since then he's not only continued to eat chicken, he eats it with abandon and malice.

"WAKE UP, GRANDMA!"

Oh, heh. Oh, ouch.