RECIPE FOR A PROMPT

How Do You Like Your Chicken?

Pecking away on Twitter when this happened

Michael Burg, MD (Satire Sommelier) 😬
Doctor Funny
Published in
2 min readMar 4, 2022

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A bold-looking chicken strides boldly across the grass, living large. Doesn’t seem that any form of chicken choking is occurring.
Looks likable enough * * * Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash

This friendly person …

Helen Hensell. Twitter Master and Asker of Life’s Deepest Questions.
Helen Hensell @hhensell on Twitter, her profile photo

… does a lot of friendly and often funny question asking on Twitter.

Her latest: “How do you like your chicken?”

Without thinking about it much, except for a brief mental flash on the fact that I’m a veggie, I responded, “living.”

Then I thought about it.

I could easily have responded:

  • He’s alright
  • Compared to what, or whom?
  • Why do you ask?
  • Better than yours
  • Choked (you may have to google “choking your chicken”)

And so on and so forth. All funny, at least to me, and potentially great little funny story ideas.

So, with a shout out to Helen H. and without further ado, please create a funny story using her question “How do you like your chicken?”

Create a full story or poem and send it to Doctor Funny in the usual manner. (If you’re not already a…

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Michael Burg, MD (Satire Sommelier) 😬
Doctor Funny

The “MD” & “um” in Medium, and the “er” in wisenheimer | Doctor Funny editor/czar | Sultan of satire | disgraced former parking lot attendant