Plant-Based Nuggets That Taste Good? When Chickens Fly

Rethink plays a fowl stunt on Vancouver for Simulate's meatless Nuggs

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Local media dubbed the bizarre flock a “poultrygeist” and residents thought they were clucking crazy when they recently caught sight of several chickens soaring through the air above Vancouver.

The fowl caused quite a stir, with videos of their overhead adventure going viral and amassing millions of views on TikTok and Instagram.

Then the public got an explanation: the awkward-looking birds were—you guessed it—part of an ad campaign. Also, definitely not real chickens, as many observers had already suspected.

“It’s like a bad deep fake of a chicken mapped onto a seagull,” one commenter said on Reddit.

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