It looks like University of Michigan football coach, Jim Harbaugh, has a chicken conspiracy theory. He has told his players not to eat chicken because it is a nervous bird. Apparently eating chicken white meat, rather than beef or pork, has allowed some kind of sickness to permeate society.
A Detroit Free Press reporter says he is right, but for the wrong reasons. Shawn Windsor writes, I'll agree with Harbaugh in this way: White chicken meat is making us sick … in the head. It stunts our growth, because white meat has no flavor, and adult food should taste like something more than cardboard.
White meat, then, is kid's food. There's a reason we grind it up and label it "nuggets" and "fingers" and even shape it into cute little dinosaurs. Oh, you can grill a boneless breast and slice it up and lay it on top of a salad and pretend you're being a big boy.
Or … you can eat a thigh. Or a leg. Or even a wing. Had Harbaugh extolled the satisfying and complex properties of the chicken thigh, and encouraged his team to indulge in a little dark meat, who knows, he might have a better record against his rivals.
Not to sure where Harbaugh is coming from, but I guess I really cannot argue with the reporter!