I Feel Like Chicken Tonight

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NuovaFromNowhere@reddit

I immediately starting singing that jingle in my head!

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Mid-Reverie@reddit

Dude... so did I. And I haven't seen this in years, decade even. They brainwashed us good 😵‍💫

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Financial-Yak-4172@reddit

I sometimes sing this when I'm making chicken and I had no idea why. Brainwashed is right!

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ultradongle@reddit

Same here, I also sing "Plug it in, plug it in" in that monotonous tone so much when plugging in electronics that my kids (11 and 9) sing it. Generational jingle trauma right there.

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NuovaFromNowhere@reddit

I sing “plug it innnn, plug it in” too lol!

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Koss424@reddit

i going to say some of the best songwritters of the above generation wrote jingles.

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Mid-Reverie@reddit

I was vegetarian growing up .. and yep I still sang the jingle. 😜

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ijustsailedaway@reddit

I'm not vegetarian but I've never had this product and yet I sang it too.

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MessageSpecial3696@reddit

How about Pace picante sauce ending a commercial with "New York City?" "Get a rope" Ah, different times.

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

I always look at the bottle is salsa and see where it’s made.

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Itchy-Apartment-Flea@reddit

I feel like chicken tonight, CHICKEN TONIGHT! I don't remember if we ever ate this. We were more hamburger helper people. This would play in my head randomly back then and is again today. Thank you.

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Mail_Order_Lutefisk@reddit

I don't know why they call it Hamburger Helper. It does just fine by itself.

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Downtown_Falcon_2127@reddit

does it go: 🎶i feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight, like chicken toniiight🎶?

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Downtown_Falcon_2127@reddit

im terrified that jingle was still accessible in the far reaches of my brain after all these decades

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Zagmut@reddit

This is my fear: senile and drooling in my sunset years, brain rotted from decades of booze and weed and microplastics, mumbling jingles from my youth because that's all that's left upstairs.

mumble mumble buck buck buck eighty nine

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Omg I’ll take it!! Lol dementia is legit terrifying so I do get the fear. For me though, all I do is overthink so mumbling jingles kinda sounds like a mental vacay. Lol I spend most of my day mumbling stupid jingles to self-soothe pffttt 😂

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Mail_Order_Lutefisk@reddit

My buddy, my buddy, my buddy, wherever I go he goes, my buddy

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Bellabird42@reddit

I’m pretty sure I’ll be humming jingles interspersed with rants about GOT (yes, I am still bitter)

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derek4reals1@reddit

https://i.redd.it/t5siu0jkd02e1.gif

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_Face@reddit

I feel like chicken tonight!

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danbob411@reddit

I recently became aware of this Aussie version:

https://youtu.be/Fl3GC6bxmWE?si=ThRkdK6v1oN4LNyi

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gumby_twain@reddit

Me too, which feels especially weird since like OP i never actually had this.

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NuovaFromNowhere@reddit

Oh, I never had it either! How about this — I didn’t even know it was like a sauce for chicken. I don’t feel like I’ve ever SEEN one of these commercials but I can hear the jingle in my head somehow! Lol

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GroundbreakingAge591@reddit

Me too!!!!

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ayaruna@reddit

I started doing that dance with the one arm chicken wing while singing it

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laffinberry@reddit

Same! I had forgotten all about this one until this post and now it's stunning my head! 😂

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NuovaFromNowhere@reddit

Right?! Hadn’t thought about Chicken Tonight in ages!

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InevitableTension667@reddit

Not tonight. Maybe chicken tomorrow

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VisibleCoat995@reddit

So are you saying…beef. It’s what’s for dinner?

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TitaniumMarbles206@reddit

Or pork….. the other white meat

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SilverParty@reddit

But do they…..got milk?

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anniemdi@reddit

It does a body good.

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VisibleCoat995@reddit

It’s also part of the three course meal they liked to call a balanced breakfast.

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cardie82@reddit

What about the incredible, edible egg?

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InevitableTension667@reddit

See my other comment because I'm a weaponised idiot that didn't reply to this one

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HollyCalamity@reddit

“Meet, The Chicken of Tomorrow!”

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InevitableTension667@reddit

Indeed. There was an advert over here for it with a Panda singing about it at one point .

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Top-Web3806@reddit

My mother definitely used the chicken cacciatore one regularly.

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

I didn't even realize it came in jars 😂

Like, how did I know the jingle and remember the commercials, but had no idea this was a jar product?!

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malaclypse@reddit

Same, my mom used to buy it down on Sullivan Street, across from the Medical Center.

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LadyMirkwood@reddit

This made me snort laugh

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No-Slice-6509@reddit

On Sgt. O’Leary’s beat?

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Bia217@reddit

Same, I loved it

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robkillian@reddit

I totally spaced that this was an actual product… but the jingle goes through my head very often when deciding what’s for dinner.

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myloveisajoke@reddit

Extra points: Iguana Tonight spoof from America's Funniest People.

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Jaereth@reddit

My mom used to sing this and do the most sickening dance i've ever seen when she would make chicken. Horrible memories.

And we didn't even use the product. She used Shake and Bake - she just liked the song..

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NeonSomething@reddit

A few years ago, I proofread and playtested an RPG gamebook by a UK-based author - I'm in the US to be clear. There was a reference to this jingle in the book, so in my list of feedback I sent to the editor, I mentioned it's unlikely that anyone under about 35 would recognize this, so the joke may be missed. But I looked it up and found it's actually still going strong in the UK. So I had to revise my statement to "under 35 in the US." They kept it in.

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Weirdassmustache@reddit

My parents never cooked and so I never got to try these. We’re they as good as they looked?

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malarckee@reddit

Another image you can hear! I always think of The Simpsons doing this but can’t find a gif…

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qtjedigrl@reddit

Thank you for putting this dang song in my head

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TacoDangerously@reddit

gif

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CarfDarko@reddit

Still a widely available product in the Netherlands.

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elgigantedelsur@reddit

God damn it now I DO feel like Chicken Tonight

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WeAreNotAmused2112@reddit

My mom wore that stuff out back in the day.

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Purple-Haze-11@reddit

The jingle though.......Ironically I was looking for this in the aisle the other day. Used to be located by the hamburger helper section. I am pretty sure I never tried the product though.

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TalesFromMyHat@reddit

I somehow read this in the same cadence as the jingle the first time I read it.

Now it’s stuck on repeat.

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PeanutNSFWandJelly@reddit

You can still get this online! You have to import it so it isn't cheap

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kristosnikos@reddit

My family sung this jingle for YEARS!

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OtherlandGirl@reddit

I’m sure it was but I loved this stuff! Always got the red one :)

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draculasbloodtype@reddit

Sweet and sour chicken! The first time I had this was at a friend's house and I couldn't get enough. Now I just make it at home: Grab 2 bottles of this, pan fry some chicken, chop an onion and a green pepper, throw in a can or two of pineapple chunks, a jar or two of maraschino cherries, and a small can of mandarin orange slices, saute together for a minute or two, then add the sauce and simmer for 20 minutes, serve over hot rice.

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Dr_Parkinglot@reddit

You could also serve it over ice cream. Holy fuck that sugar content.

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LadyLoki5@reddit

well, yes, it is sweet and sour sauce, lol

even homemade sweet and sour sauce has sugar in it

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seacookie89@reddit

The bottled sauce is already sweetened. I can't imagine how that recipe tastes with all that fruit and syrup lmao it's sweet enough to make your teeth fall out

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VisualMany4709@reddit

That chicken cacciatore was the bomb back then. Started singing it as soon as I saw the bottle.

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stego_man@reddit

I always have a different version in my head. I thought this was an SNL parody but I guess not, it was Americas funniest home videos at some point!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Q05TzltT4

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Anorion@reddit

Came with that link in hand, but you beat me to it!

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crackedtooth163@reddit

I FUCKING LOVED THAT

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comdoasordo@reddit

When I was in high school I had this job shadowing class at the facility in my town that made these sauces and the other Ragu selections. I remember walking through into the production area and getting blasted with the smell of the flash-frozen ingredients they loaded into the process. It was a really neat facility and the whole area around it smelled like simmering tomato sauce when you drove by.

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tiredmum18@reddit

My husband and I before we were married would have the lemon and herb one at least once a week. It was bloody delicious. Probably full Of all Sorts of crap. But delicious

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Ninjachuckz@reddit

...chicken Tonght!!

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

I remember the jingle, but I don't think I ever had any of the sauces from that line

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black-kramer@reddit

same, never had it but the song is permanently seared into my brain.

I think they still sell it but I'm confident it'll be disappointing.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

God that jingle! Damn you Madison Avenue!

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South_Tea5210@reddit

This jingle pops into my head all the time. I wish they still made it. We always served it over rice. It was delicious!

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NoClipHeavy@reddit

Had this one night and absolutely wanted to hurl it was disgusting (I was 6)

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sputnikrootbeer@reddit

It was so good after soccer ⚽ practice

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GamerCirca80@reddit

Wow. I knew the song, but not the product. Lol

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ScaleEnvironmental27@reddit

Damn, I miss this stuff. The caccitori(red sauce) was so good. I still dream of that stuff.

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Obvious-Hunt19@reddit

I immediately jingled it up in my head but... who'd have thought this was a jarred product? I assumed it was some kind of breading... what are you gonna do to chicken with sauce like this? It's chicken *tonight* so it's not a marinade, what the hell did you do with this stuff

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JMan82784@reddit

I always wanted to try this and never got the chance to. I feel like I missed out :(

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PhillyPhanatik@reddit

Literally anytime my wife says "I feel like..."

🎶I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight🎶

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JoisChaoticWhatever@reddit

NOO, that earworm of a jingle is in my head! Make It Stop!!

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VectorB@reddit

Ugh. This always gets me now.

In middle school our class was horrible. Little middleschool shits all around. I cant remember what we did to be horrible this time around, but our teacher was trying to talk to us like we were actual humans, and we had just done something to hurt someone's feelings i think. The teacher led a deep heartfelt discussion about it and asked how that made us feel that we hurt another students feelings so badly. THAT kid, im sure we all knew, looked at her teary eyed and said..."I...I feel....I feel like chicken tonight!!" with flappy chicken arms. It broke her. She quit that week.

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