Every now and then, I’ll be reading a story, not really sure whether it’s meant to be sf or not, but realizing that it has a pleasant sfnal tone—and then, voila!, there’s time travel. Davidson’s story is a piece that lives on the edge between real and surreal, ostensibly telling the story of Fred Hopkins, an artist who puts old buildings on canvas and takes a late morning breakfast at La Bunne Burger.
He read on: Ingredients: Water, Other Poultry and Poultry Parts, Dehydrated Vegetables, Chickens and Chicken Parts, seasoning. . . the list dribbled off into the usual list of chemicals.

Variants

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  1. “Full Chicken Richness” by Avram Davidson, in Last Wave, October 1983.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Avram Davidson