The Food of the Gods1976

Jack Bensington:
[pointing at bubbling fluid from ground] That's what your husband brought us out here for?

Mrs. Skinner:
Just like Mr. Skinner found 'er. Just like that one day. At first he thought it was oil and it was going to make us rich.

Jack Bensington:
Come on, Lorna.

Lorna Scott:
No, wait a minute, Jack, wait a minute. Look at this. I've never seen anything like it. Mrs. Skinner, how did your husband happen to feed it to the chickens?

Mrs. Skinner:
Well, when we found out it weren't no oil, there was nothing to do about it, so we fed it to the chicks.

Lorna Scott:
Right out of the ground like that?

Mrs. Skinner:
No, miss. Nothing'll eat it unless we mix it with chicken feed.

Lorna Scott:
And did all the chickens grow?

Mrs. Skinner:
Only the baby chicks. Nothing seemed to affect the grown ones. Nothing at all.

Lorna Scott:
Nothing happens to the full-grown chickens, is that right?

Mrs. Skinner:
Well, they didn't grow none, if that's what you mean. But I didn't say nothing happened to 'em.

Lorna Scott:
Well, what did happen?

Mrs. Skinner:
They got et... by the real big ones.

Jack Bensington:
Come on, Lorna.