# All Tricks, No Treats (October Mini-Rants)

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 30, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-tricks-no-treats-october-mini-rants/951693 "2021-09-30T21:48:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-tricks-no-treats-october-mini-rants/951693/42 "2021-10-05T20:37:07Z")

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There are no chickens to be had in Belgium since almost two weeks ago, so I asked the cashier what was wrong. She answered: “The chicken are on strike!”. I guess she meant the abbatoirs or the processing plants or the distributors or whatever, but I hat to think of Lluís Llach’s song _La gallineta_ (I am aware that nobody here will know a fifty years old song in Catalan about a hen going on laying strike with the refrain _La gallina a dit que no, visca la relvolució!_ but never mind). Here are the [lyrics](https://lyricstranslate.com/de/llu%C3%ADs-llach-la-gallineta-lyrics.html), here an English [translation](https://lyricstranslate.com/de/la-gallineta-little-hen.html-0), here a [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGgNE0hc8Q) to a performance.  
BTW, if I were a hen, I would go on strike too, they lead miserable lives. But I am missing my weekly roast.  
ETA: Per haps I should have posted this on the thread about [first world problems](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-first-world-problems/951904), which is in itself a first world probelm.

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