I am born in the year of the rooster, and I collect rooster type things for my kitchen. In fact, there exists a Facebook page of my cock collection.
Plus the jokes never get old. Coffee Mugs? I love to wrap my hands around a big warm cock in the morning. I get a new knick-nack …oh its never as big as you think its going to be. Pre Christmas cleaning…? have to wash my cocks tonight. (sung to the tune of while shepards watched their flocks…")
Yup. I’m a big fan of the cock.
The rooster being popular goes way back. I kind of thought it might have to do with the break of day and where most of us start our mornings, in the kitchen. So I did a search and found this article on Rooster’s. I thought it was enlightening.
Thanks, I am getting the dishes and sometimes I just have to splurge. I have two partial sets of dishes one with apples and one modern. They are chipped and I always said when the kids move out I’m going to have dishes that match.
Growing up we had sometimes 2 or 3 partial sets of dishes in the cupboard. One set was so ugly I disliked drying them. It was almost evil. A little girl next to an empty crib in the ugliest shade of green. Gives me the willies just remembering them.
I’ve never heard of such a thing until now. Hmmm. My mom does have a small stained-glass window of a rooster in her kitchen, though, and some other chickeny knick-knacks. Huh. I always thought it was part of her embracing the local ambience, though. (The town where my parents live, and where I mostly grew up, was, years and years ago, the egg production capital of the world. It’s a yuppified suburb these days, but there’s still lots of chicken and egg imagery all over town.)
Since I can no longer have chickens in my backyard, I have chickens in my kitchen. Chickens are wonderful personalities, and I miss them talking to me when I go outside.
Roosters are just one of the popular kitchen themes.
At Kitchen Themes, you can order several different Rooster styles–or other themes, like Apples. But that’s cheating. If you are truly into a theme, you’ll use more than one source. Like eBay! (Roosters & Chickens have been popular a long time.)
The most efficient kitchen would be slick & unadorned, but most of us like a bit of decoration–even if we avoid the “themes.” I tend toward Retro or Vintage–but mostly in useful items, not bric-a-brac.
Chinese Astrology won’t work for me–born in the Year of the Rat.