[dmz]

frank perdue...chicken man.

are you all aware of the story from when oprah was on a morning talk show in baltimore (before she got really famous in chicago). she was interviewing frank when she made the comment that some people thought he looked like a chicken to which he replied, some people think you look like an ape. urban legend? maybe, maybe not.

[John Beresford Tipton]

I think it is probably a legend because he has used in ads the fact that he looks like a chicken. He had one like:
"You don't *have* to look like a chicken to raise chickens."

[twigs]

No, it it NOT an urban legend. I worked in Annapolis at the time and my best friend watched it on TV. She told me about it then. She could absolutely not believe what she had heard. At the time, Oprah was just local and I had hardly heard of her. It's all very true! The way I heard it was that Oprah asked him how did he respond to people's saying he looked like a chicken. (Apparently that was a common comment about Perdue at the time. He was not well liked because he maintained very strict standards for all his employees who did not appreciate it and considered him not the nicest person himself.) He answered by saying "what do you say to people who say that you look like a baboon?"