Oh-oh Frango!

Back to language. I've been studying Brazilian Portuguese and find it perplexing and fun.

Let's talk about chickens. The male chicken is called Galo, easy enough and the female chicken is called Galinha. The baby chicken or chic if you will, is called the pintinho But the teenage male chicken is called frango.

Teenage chicken?

What the heck? Why the differentiation? Trust me on this: you don't want to be a teenage chicken. Teenage chickens are the ones we eat, so your life expectancy as a male chicken plummets when entering your teen years.

Well, I guess that fact isn't really all that different than humans.