# Duck survives in fridge for two days ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834 "2007-01-21T13:48:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/21 "2007-01-22T13:27:00Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] It was propbably quaking away inside the fridge, but they couldn’t hear it because it didn’t echo. [/QUOTE] Was the duck really alive or dead, before sombody opened the refrigerator to observe the duck? ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/22 "2007-01-22T13:46:16Z")
This reminds me of the news story I saw last year–too lazy to dig up a link so BELIEVE WITH CAUTION!–of a cow who ran away from a slaughterhouse. Of course the cow was caught, and of course she wasn’t made into meat loaf. I realize, as with the OP’s story, that there’s a huge amount of hypocrisy in it, but human nature dictates that we applaud any being who defies the odds and fights with fate. IOW, if a cow is plucky enough to run away from a slaughterhouse, or a duck is stubborn enough to survive being shot and stuffed in a fridge for a couple days, who can help cheering for them? We’re the same people who grew up watching Disney movies. If we can identify with it, we want to save it. Kinda like the President, pardoning one turkey a year for Thanksgiving. How silly and kinda morbid a tradition is THAT, anyway? And yet I always find it kind of cute. I’m just as absurd and silly as the rest of the country. I say GO DUCK GO! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/23 "2007-01-22T13:49:04Z")
> [@](#): > > My father was a big hunter and he used to pull similar things although none of them were actually alive. One time, I opened our regular kitchen freezer and a frozen coyote kind of slid out and I couldn’t help but catch it horrified. As a big fan and over-and-over watcher of sci-fi flicks, I couldn’t help thinking of the scene in the greenhouse in the 1951 version of **The Thing** when I read this. Your father wasn’t a giant carrot by any chance, was he? ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/24 "2007-01-22T13:57:07Z")
I personally would have eaten the duck anyway. Any duck that was that perseverant must be delicious when cooked up Peking style with some pancakes. Mmmm, hard to kill peking duck… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/25 "2007-01-22T13:57:58Z")
Every once in a while there’ll be an incident like [this](http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050213-121442-2052r.htm), which is a bit worse than the duck story. [QUOTE=tarragon918] I just can’t imagine opening the door to the fridge or freezer and having something look back at me, something I thought was dead. [/QUOTE] Obviously you’ve never searched for snacks at the back of _our_ refrigerator. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/26 "2007-01-22T14:03:10Z")
Sure it wasn’t a phoenix? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/27 "2007-01-22T14:13:20Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Sure it wasn’t a phoenix? [/QUOTE] Only if it had already been cooked. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/28 "2007-01-22T14:35:32Z")
Hah! I didn’t realize until after I’d heard about this story a couple times that it happened in my town. And the author ain’t kidding about those muscovy ducks. They’re some crazy aggressive quackers. I go jogging at Lake Ella every weekend and it’s like an obstacle course. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/29 "2007-01-22T15:30:27Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] And I would have missed an interesting - but non-important - tidbit if it hadn’t been posted here. Did it \*really \*change the quality of your life? [/QUOTE] No. Why would you think that? ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834/30 "2007-01-22T18:33:51Z")
Well, personally, I’m just glad it wasn’t **Duck Duck Goose** or **Duckster** that was stuck in the fridge for two days… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-survives-in-fridge-for-two-days/388834.md?page=1)