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Fish v Chicken

Fish v Chicken

Where are you in the pecking order?

Jul 25, 2024
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It’s no secret that our piscatorial triumphs sound so much better in the telling if the heroic angler out-wits a wily foe. So we embellish our trout with fishy superpowers like intelligence and emotional guile. Even when we lose them, we’re never beaten by a run-of-the-mill fish: It was ‘big, arrogant and knew exactly what it was doing!’

I suspect it’s m…

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