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> Zoomers: The chicken dinner thing is an outdated video-game reference. That’s cute but also completely untrue, “winner winner chicken dinner” predates video-

• lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  It actually made me wonder if the video game call-out was tongue-in-cheek, as if to suggest that a member of Gen Z would not understand a game which isn't a video game. Looks like it's (probably) a reference to PUBG[0]: > Winner winner chicken dinner became popular online after the release of the 2017 multiplayer shooter video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Game developer Brendan “PlayerUnkown” Greene is a fan of the phrase and included it in most of the battle-royale modes he has created. If a player manages to be the sole survivor of the notoriously difficult game of PUBG, they are greeted with the poultry praise upon victory. [0] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-dinner/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-din...
  • zamnos 3y ago
    From your link: > David Guzman, author of a book on craps lingo, has said that the term comes from back-alley gamblers during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
• chrisco255 3y ago
  I'm pretty sure it's a Las Vegas reference to winning a free meal.