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Chook
Chook is an Australian/New Zealand slang term for a chicken. Chook or chooks may also refer to: People * Chook Sibtain (born 1969), Joplin Sibtain, English actor * Charles "Chook" Fraser (1893–1981), Australian rugby league footballer * Bill "Chook" Fowler, cricketer, born 1959 * Stan "Chook" Maxwell, (1935–2001), Canadian professional ice hockey player Food * Chooks Fresh & Tasty, a Western Australian fast food chain * Chooks-to-Go Chooks-to-Go is a chain of stores owned by Bounty Agro Ventures, Inc. (BAVI), a privately owned company operating in the Philippines. It offers roast chicken and processed meats for off-premises consumption. Chooks-to-Go currently has close ..., a Filipino restaurant chain. See also * * Chooka (other) * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chooks-to-Go
Chooks-to-Go is a chain of stores owned by Bounty Agro Ventures, Inc. (BAVI), a privately owned company operating in the Philippines. It offers roast chicken and processed meats for off-premises consumption. Chooks-to-Go currently has close to a thousand outlets. The majority are in suburban areas and small towns, enabling access to a larger part of the population. The product mix is adjusted to suit local preferences. The company has 23 processing plants across the country, allowing logistical and processing flexibility to match daily orders. A cold chain system delivers fresh products every day. Food safety is constantly monitored, with HACCP compliance underway. Chooks-to-Go is an official partner of the Gilas Pilipinas program for the Philippine men's basketball team since 2016. History Chooks-to-Go is a brand of Bounty Agro Ventures, Inc. (BAVI), a company established in 1997 which was originally engaged in selling raw poultry products. The influx of cheaper raw po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan "Chook" Maxwell
Stan Maxwell, known as "Chook" Maxwell (March 24, 1935 - September 7, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player whose professional hockey career spanned from 1959 to 1971. Stan “Chook” Maxwell is documented as one of the earliest Black professional hockey players, first appearing with the Quebec Aces. He frequently played with Willie O'Ree throughout the span of eight years and five different organizations. He also once competed in a professional exhibition game with the Boston Bruins at Boston Garden. In 1980, he was inducted to the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame. Early life On March 24, 1935, Stan “Chook” Maxwell was born and raised in Truro in the province of Nova Scotia in Canada. He was the second oldest of fifteen children. Growing up, Chook Maxwell was skilled in a variety of sports, but his greatest strengths were baseball and ice hockey. The young Truro boy purchased his first set of skates at a yard sale. It is said that he practiced with his siblings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chook Sibtain
Joplin Sibtain, sometimes credited professionally as Chook Sibtain, is a British actor known for the Netflix series ''Safe'', his seasons at the National Theatre and as Tarak Ital on the ''Doctor Who'' special, "The Waters of Mars". He voiced Olin in ''Horizon Zero Dawn''. He won best actor at the New York Movie awards for the title role in ''Memory Man'', and starred as Brasso in the ''Star Wars'' television series '' Andor''. Biography Joplin Sibtain was born in Waltham Forest, London in 1969. He won a scholarship and attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He has performed in theatres including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. He is known for playing various film and television roles including Mickey, opposite Nick Nolte in ''Head Full Of Honey'', Neil Chahal in the Netflix series ''Safe'' and Tarak Ital in ''Doctor Who''. Selected filmography References External links *Joplin Sibtainat the British Film Institute The British Film I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chooks Fresh & Tasty
Chooks Fresh & Tasty was a Western Australian fast food chain that specialized in barbecued and fried chicken. History Chooks was originally a well known regional fast food brand named River Rooster. Operations began in Busselton and Margaret River in 1991. River Rooster stores were generally in areas that lacked popular fast food chains – namely Chicken Treat, Red Rooster or KFC. Around 2003, the River Rooster name was dropped. The company felt they were not generating new transactions due to the similarity in brands with other outlets. The company started a competition where customers could submit new names to them for consideration, after which the current Chooks Fresh & Tasty name was adopted.Franchise Council of Australia Board of Directors (accessed 2007-09-17) In October 2010, Chook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicken
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and a younger male may be called a cockerel. A male that has been castrated is a capon. An adult female bird is called a hen and a sexually immature female is called a pullet. Humans now keep chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and as pets. Traditionally they were also bred for cockfighting, which is still practiced in some places. Chickens are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion , up from more than 19 billion in 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird. There are numerous cultural references to chickens – in myth, folklore and religion, and in language and literature. Genetic studies have pointed to mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles "Chook" Fraser
Charles "Chook" Fraser (1893–1981) was an Australian rugby league footballer and later coach. He was a versatile Rugby league positions#The three-quarters, three-quarter for the Australia national rugby league team, Australian national team. He played in 11 Tests between 1911 and 1920 as captain on 3 occasions. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century Balmain Chook Fraser was born in Short Street, Birchgrove in 1893. A Balmain junior, Fraser was graded with the Balmain Tigers at age 17, before an extraordinary seventeen year first grade career for the club at either fullback or centre from 1910 to 1926.Whiticker pp71-73 He was member of Balmain's premiership winning sides of New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1915, 1915, New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1916, 1916, New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1917, 1917, New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1919, 1919, New South Wales Rugby Football League sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill "Chook" Fowler
William Peter Fowler (born 13 March 1959) aka Bill "Chook" Fowler, is a retired English cricketer who played first-class cricket in England for Derbyshire in 1983 and 1984. Fowler's cricketing career started at Worcestershire's Second XI in 1979 before he found himself out of the side at the end of the season, thought ineffective as a middle-order batsman after his final-game duck against Yorkshire. Fowler moved to New Zealand in the early part of 1980 in order to play for Northern Districts, who he represented until 1982. He moved to Derbyshire in the 1983 season in time for that year's County Championship. A regular fixture in the first team, he played seventeen out of the twenty-four games of the season, and in the 1984 season, was a middle-order fixture as he recorded his career-best score of 116 against Glamorgan. Alternating between England in the Northern Hemisphere summer and New Zealand in theirs, he did not play another County Championship game after the 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
