You ever walk past one of those rotisserie chicken places and see like 30 chickens rotating on spits and wonder how many chickens available for sale in New York City are actively cooking at that moment?

I do, and I have ever since one of my friends first brought the subject up for debate. I’ve got a ballpark estimate, but I’m curious what you’d guess.

To clarify: I’m not talking about chickens people are cooking in their homes here, or else I imagine the number would be astronomical.

And I don’t mean raw chickens that are about to be cooked. I mean chickens cooking in restaurants and takeout places and supermarkets and anyplace else that might sell cooked chicken in the five boroughs of New York City on any given Wednesday night around 7 p.m.

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