Plaintive Clucks

Last night I dreamt that I was buying some Boca Nuggets and the cashier asked if these nuggets were vegetarian. Of course they are -- that's what Boca nuggets, burgers, and breakfast links are all about.

So she goes to read the ingredients and what does it say?

I don't remember the exact words, actually, but it was something to the effect that one of the ingredients (not the main one, mind you) was newly hatched Javanese chickens.

Well crud. That's hardly vegetarian. What kind of blurry line was Boca working with here?

So then I spent awhile in crazy dreamland trying to decide if a baby chick (cute! fluffy! yellow!) really counted toward eating flesh, what with it just having cracked out of the egg and all. I decided that yes, it did, ye gods, and I was mad at Boca for wasting my time with these considerations.

Not to mention being upset over having eaten all of those little sweet chicks over the years. They can't help being born in Java, where apparently Life Begins at Feathers.