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Trying Chicken Fingers for the First Time (and a Dead Coworker's Tribute Video)
from Freedom Fingers · #88
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5 minTim recounts trying chicken fingers for the first time as an adult, researching their history on Wikipedia, and the surreal experience of editing a tribute video for a deceased coworker whose defining trait was loving chicken fingers, plus his Mr. Met bit.
- 26:20Tim read Wikipedia about chicken fingers after trying them for the first time, discovering they didn't become ubiquitous until the 1990s.
- 27:01His boss at work died, and Tim was asked to cut a tribute video that started as a get-well message.
- 27:25During the tribute video, 15 people mentioned that all the dead coworker ever ate was chicken fingers.
- 28:10The munchies guys made a five-minute segment showing how to make chicken fingers the way the deceased coworker liked them, with crispy outside, juicy inside, and honey mustard.
- 28:30The dead coworker was the only person who liked Tim's idea for a show with Mr. Met going to Black Lives Matter rallies to talk about race.
- 29:19Tim tried chicken fingers for the first time and also got disco fries, which he immediately dismisses as trash food compared to the chicken fingers.
- 29:50Chicken fingers, in Tim's newly formed opinion, are one of the juiciest and most delicious things he's ever eaten, and he regrets not trying them sooner.
- 30:25Adam counters that he's been eating chicken fingers his entire life in various preparations: with buffalo sauce, barbecue, Jack Daniel sauce, honey mustard, ranch, in wraps, sandwiches, BLTs, and on Cajun pastas.
- 30:44Tim insists he hasn't deprived himself of much and didn't understand what world Adam was living in, given his own extensive chicken finger consumption history.
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