# Is guys that only eat chicken fingers a thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382 "2023-10-31T17:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 158
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382/158 "2025-03-01T20:40:24Z")
But they need to be served in cage-like boxes that take tools found in the habitat to open. Enrichment is important to keep your subjects from going nuts with boredom. A brief and partial history of Bachelor Chow on the Dope: March 2011: > [@An update on the 'bachelor chow' front](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-update-on-the-bachelor-chow-front/574937): > > Seems that Campbell’s has come up with a ‘complete [meal in a can](http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/954575--campbell-s-cans-hunger)’. I wonder how complete it really is. Feb 2013: > [@Bachelor Chow redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bachelor-chow-redux/651221): > > Just wandering through some blogs and I ran across an old post about a patented idea for a [compressed food](http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2012/10/condensed-ration.html). I could see this as bachelor chow, but also fuel for farting contests! Add some sort of minerals and vitamins and assorted amino acids and I think it would appeal to a bunch of people. I sort of wonder what it would taste like, it seems lacking in seasoning. Dec 2019: > [@Is there a common food that could serve as Bachelor Chow? Or would be close?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-common-food-that-could-serve-as-bachelor-chow-or-would-be-close/845350): > > In “Futurama,” Philip Fry is often seeing consuming “Bachelor Chow,” which as the name would suggest is a commercial food made to feed a human. The implication is that it’s boring to eat but provides a person with the right nutrition to remain alive, like Dog Chow does for dogs. Is there a commonly available food stuff - something you could buy at a grocery store, and not have to combine two or more things (except water, if applicable) that would serve as Bachelor Chow? That is, a human could… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-guys-that-only-eat-chicken-fingers-a-thing/992382)._