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[[File:Back cover of the Uncle Meat video.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Rubber chicken for measurement drawn by [[Cal Schenkel]], from the back cover of ''[[Uncle Meat (The Film)]]'']]
'''Rubber chickens''' were sometimes used during Zappa's stage performances and in video footage.

==Appearances of rubber chickens==
[[File:Massimo Bassoli chicken.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Scene from [[Massimo Bassoli]]'s music video ''[[Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (The Track)|Tengo Na Minchia Tanta]]'' in ''[[Dub Room Special]]'' (1985), where he uses ''"a rubber chicken to measure his dick"''.]]

* During ''[[Mozart Ballet (Piano Sonata in B Flat)]]'' at the [[69/06/06 London UK Royal Albert Hall|concert in the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 6 June 1969]], [[Dick Barber]] strangled a rubber chicken, which Zappa already announced during the [[Intro]].
* During the 1971 tour, a toy giraffe was ''giving birth'' to a rubber chicken on stage, according to ''[[Zubin And The Mothers]]'', [[Playboy]], April 1971.
* During the 1974 tour, [[Bruce Fowler]] used a rubber chicken on stage (Source: ''[[Frank Zappa: a Mother Only a Face Could Love]]'', interview by Michael Bourne, American Eye, 23 October 1974).
* On the front and back cover of the ''[[Uncle Meat (The Film)|Uncle Meat]]'' movie, [[Cal Schenkel]] also depicted a rubber chicken. In the film itself, [[Carl Zappa]] uses a rubber chicken to measure his dick (''[[Uncle Meat Film Excerpt]]''). In ''[[Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (The Track)|Tengo Na Minchia Tanta]]'', [[Massimo Bassoli]] sings a song about this activity.
* In a 1996 article by [[Rip Rense]], ''[[The Lost Episodes: about the album]]'', a plaque from the actress [[Beverly D'Angelo]] is described hanging in Zappa's room, ''"for excellence in chicken measurement"''.

==General references to chickens in Zappa's songs==
* ''[[Plastic People]]'': ''"I think his wife is gonna bring him some chicken soup."''
* ''[[Advance Romance]]'': ''"Chicken was never like this!"''
* ''[[Disco Boy]]'': ''"And feed you a box full of chicken delight!"''
* ''[[Marque-son's Chicken]]''
* ''[[The Dangerous Kitchen]]'': ''"The chicken in the dish with the foil"''

==See also==
* [[Rubber]]

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 * ''[[Marque-son's Chicken]]''
 * ''[[The Dangerous Kitchen]]'': ''"The chicken in the dish with the foil"''
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 * [[Rubber]]
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 * During the 1971 tour, a toy giraffe was ''giving birth'' to a rubber chicken on stage, according to ''[[Zubin And The Mothers]]'', [[Playboy]], April 1971.
 * During the 1974 tour, [[Bruce Fowler]] used a rubber chicken on stage (Source: ''[[Frank Zappa: a Mother Only a Face Could Love]]'', interview by Michael Bourne, American Eye, 23 October 1974).
 * On the front and back cover of the ''[[Uncle Meat (The Film)|Uncle Meat]]'' movie, [[Cal Schenkel]] also depicted a rubber chicken. In the film itself, [[Carl Zappa]] uses a rubber chicken to measure his dick (''[[Uncle Meat Film Excerpt]]''). In ''[[Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (The Track)|Tengo Na Minchia Tanta]]'', [[Massimo Bassoli]] sings a song about this activity.
 * In a 1996 article by [[Rip Rense]], ''[[The Lost Episodes: about the album]]'', a plaque from the actress [[Beverly D'Angelo]] is described hanging in Zappa's room, ''"for excellence in chicken measurement"''.