Gene technology

( Rolleiflex 2.8F, Planar 80mm F2.8, Portra 400VC )




It has been my great effort to make myself look like a good husband. For example, I call my wife just before I leave my work.

Since it requires only seven minutes drive from my work to home, you may say that I do not have to call her. Those who say that do not understand. This is indeed my great effort.

When I cal her, she asks me every now and then to make a quick stop at the local supermarket to buy something. Something means milk on one day, and spice on the other day. Or it may a toilet cleaning liquid, depends on what she has been doing during the day.

The other day, something she meant was chicken wings. I did not say that I was too tired from work, of course. I smiled on the other side of the telephone, and rushed to the supermarket.

As soon as I made it to the supermarket, I went straight to poultry aisle. I picked some chicken wings in to my cart. I should have, then, gone to the casher to go home. But my biological curiosity made me staring at the poultry aisle and thinking for a while

As far as I learned in school so far, usually chicken has two thighs and two wings. This obviously means that you can get two pieces of thigh meat and two pieces of wing, as well as two pieces of breast. What I observed in the supermarket was that they seemed to have disproportionately more wings than thighs or breasts. It was simply impossible from biology stand point. It looked only possible if you can get six or eight pieces of wing form one chicken.

Here comes my theory. Gene technology nowadays made it possible to make a chicken with six or eight wings. They keep these new type of bio-chickens secretly. Consumers are the only one who do not know this.

Isn’t this scary enough to give you a nightmare tonight?

Japanese translation