- "I guess...I guess I’d want to be back on a farm. There is enough money for me to buy a little farmstead of my own. I’d get some geese, and ducks, maybe some turkeys...chickens, of course. Couple of pigs. I love bacon and ham. And a mule for plowing, and some milk cows."
- ―Robert Greene to Jack Sparrow
The chicken was a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, there were more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.
History[]
- "Your countrymen ran like chickens before Guillaume le Conquérant!"
- ―Etienne de Ver to Lucius Featherstone
Chickens were often kept on board ships to provide fresh eggs and meat.
Fresh food was a luxury on the ships because it soon rotted in the tropical heat. Mostly the crew lived on hard tack (biscuits) and salted meat. The captain ate better and the ship carried a few live sheep and chickens for his table.[1] There were chickens in the hold of the Black Pearl, most notably during Jack Sparrow's second captaincy. After Jack and the Pearl were dragged to the realm of Davy Jones' Locker by the Kraken,[2] Sparrow hallucinated many versions of himself, including one vision that clucked and walked in the manner of a chicken.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
- In Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, chickens appear in the marketplace, where an impromptu auction is taking place. Chickens on display in the marketplace were "continuously clucking".[4] Chickens are among the fifty-five animals that appear in the ride.[5]
- One of the ride's many refurbishments, the Pooped Pirate brandishes a chicken leg instead of a lady's undergarment in the revised incarnation of the scene.[6]
- In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, a cage of chickens clucked as Captain Jack Sparrow entered below decks of the Black Pearl. As written in Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay and the film's junior novelization, the captain raised his pistol and the chickens suddenly went quiet. "That's what I thought," Jack said before making his way to the rum locker.[7][8] However, presumably due to Johnny Depp's improvisation on set, Sparrow says, "I thought so." This ultimately became the deleted scene "Steady As She Goes" as featured in Blu-ray releases beginning in 2011.[9]
Appearances[]
- Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean (First appearance)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
- The Price of Freedom (Mentioned only)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow
- The Duel!
- A Revolting Development! (Mentioned only)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Online
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)
- Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life (Non-canonical appearance)
External links[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide, pp. 28-29: "Black Pearl"
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies, p. 94
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies, p. 50
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies, p. 99
- ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization)
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Deleted Scene: "Steady As She Goes"