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Why is it called Chicken Dinner Road?

Morris and Laura Lamb were friends of Governor C. Ben Ross and his wife, Edna. They had eaten dinner together many times at the Lamb home.

One day, in the 1930s, Mrs. Lamb, who was noted for her chicken, rolls and apple pie meals, was in Boise. She invited the governor to come to dinner. During the same conversation, she complained to Ross about the pitiful condition of the road in front of their place, which was dirt pocked with potholes. Ross was purported to say something like, “Laura, if you get that road graded and graveled, I’ll see to it it’s oiled.”

Mrs. Lamb approached the Canyon County Commissioners who saw that opportunity as a fine one. They graded and graveled the road. As soon as that was done, she was on the phone to the governor reminding him of his promise. The next day — this part seems unlikely, but it’s Mrs. Lamb’s story — the next day the road was oiled.

The story got around and local hooligans thought it would be droll to put up a big hand-scrawled sign in front of the Lamb house in the dark of night. It read: “Lamb’s Chicken Dinner Avenue.” Mrs. Lamb was not amused. Possibly because she knew the rules. It was clearly a road then, as it is today. Chicken Dinner Road.

— Excerpt from an April 2019 history column in the Idaho Press by historian Rick Just. For the full version, click here.


1 posted on 07/06/2019 11:38:04 AM PDT by PROCON
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Call it “Massaman Chicken” Road and really make their heads explode.


2 posted on 07/06/2019 11:44:02 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: PROCON

Winning.


3 posted on 07/06/2019 11:48:14 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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Laugh but it won’t be long before streets and towns named after the founders will be changed to names like “Planned Parenthood Road” or “Antifa Lane”.


4 posted on 07/06/2019 11:49:20 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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Rename it “Attention Seeking Whores Road” in honor of PETA


5 posted on 07/06/2019 11:51:38 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: PROCON

Rename it Winner Winner Road.


6 posted on 07/06/2019 11:54:02 AM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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If it was me being asked I’d change the names of the flanking streets to “Eggs and Bacon” and “BBQ”


7 posted on 07/06/2019 11:54:11 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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"Chickens are intelligent"

When the first three words of a letter are an absolute lie, don't even bother to read the rest.
8 posted on 07/06/2019 11:55:32 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Wait for Bernie to name it Free Chicken Dinner Road.


9 posted on 07/06/2019 11:55:55 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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Idaho cities are probably tooo small for a Sam’s Club. Can’t call it Rotisserie Chicken boulevard
10 posted on 07/06/2019 11:59:36 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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Yeah, they're so 'intelligent' that you can chop the head off one and the body might keep strutting around the barnyard until it starves to death. Seems to me that I read something some years back, where a botched hatchet job on a farm left a chicken headless, but it was still alive from the neck-down. They fed and watered it through the stump of its neck, and it wandered around for months after that until it dropped dead of natural causes. (Whatever 'natural causes' might be that contribute to chicken mortality. An ax comes to mind.).

Sounds like your typical Dem voter. Brainless, but motile.

13 posted on 07/06/2019 12:02:04 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Free James Woods!!!)
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How about they change it to “F*** Peta”?


14 posted on 07/06/2019 12:05:26 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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Why stop there? Make it illegal to say phrases like “chicken out”, “chicken pox”, and “chicken sh*t”.

All of these phrases are demeaning to chickens.


15 posted on 07/06/2019 12:12:02 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Humans have hunted and raised animals to eat since there were humans. It’s 100% normal and natural.

For anyone who doesn’t want to eat animal flesh, I respect your deviation from the norm.


17 posted on 07/06/2019 12:17:47 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Members of this cult called “PETA” are not known for their rationality. They frame their arguments in the belief that crocodiles, ants and wolves are rational, thinking beings.

While animals of all varieties have shown an amazing adaptation to their niche in the environment, the entire circle of life, PETA has chosen to assert that humanity differs from the “lower” species only because people are basically “cruel” and WANT to see the “lower” species suffer pain and degradation.

This may be one view of a segment of humanity, but certainly not ALL of it. Domesticated animals have been a part of human civilization since very early on, a part of the evolution upward from roaming nomadic tribesman to the technological wizards that have transformed the planet into a virtual Eden in places, all the while with many of these various species at their side, Had we not horses, other humans would have been used as slaves to carry burdens and pull loads. If no cattle and chickens, our diets would be reduced to very anemic sources of protein, as few plant sources in and of themselves provide adequate complete and balanced proteins. If no cats or dogs, human companionship is sometimes a little too intense for many people. The list goes on and on, the interdependence of humanity with animals, and civilization in the absence of this symbiotic relationship would be a much less settled and positive attribute to the world.


18 posted on 07/06/2019 12:18:00 PM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: PROCON; Gamecock; SaveFerris

Change it to Chicken Diner.

Motto: “Whiner, Whiner, Chicken Diner!”

Maybe open a Kenny Rogers, too.


21 posted on 07/06/2019 12:26:51 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Every chicken that reads that sign will flee in fear. Literate fowl should not be terrorized in such a fashion!


23 posted on 07/06/2019 12:30:54 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat actually gets prosecuted. ))))
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Organic Veggieburger Road


24 posted on 07/06/2019 12:35:39 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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26 posted on 07/06/2019 12:46:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I hope the town renames Chicken Dinner Road to Chik-Fil-A Dinner Road. That ought to really upset the homo-lesbo group known as PETA.


28 posted on 07/06/2019 12:48:59 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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From a group that kills 90% of the animals that it gets control of.


32 posted on 07/06/2019 12:59:58 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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