April 1st as April Fool's Day is associated with the vain rooster, Chauntecleer, in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
But this is not the Chaunticleer that Chanticleer Gardens is named for. And there are large rooster statues at the entrance gates, and throughout the garden. So one wonders how this pretty garden in the Philadelphia area got its name.
"The Chanticleer estate dates from the early 20th-century, when land along the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was developed for summer homes to escape the heat of Philadelphia. Adolph Rosengarten, Sr., and his wife Christine chose the Wayne-St. Davids area to build their country retreat. The family's pharmaceutical firm would become part of Merck & Company in the 1920s."
"Mr. Rosengarten's humor is evident in naming his home after the estate "Chanticlere" in Thackeray's 1855 novel The Newcomes. The fictional Chanticlere was "mortgaged up to the very castle windows" but "still the show of the county." Playing on the word, which is synonymous with "rooster," the Rosengartens used rooster motifs throughout the estate."
Chanticleer was used as the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox. Its definition refers to this: a domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.
On to rooster jokes, as there aren't any Chanticleer jokes. They are mostly profane, given the job of a rooster. On jokes sites this is the approach:
This is pretty well it for the rooster jokes. A long, long listing of this box. And generally, it is the same joke with variations.
So here are the remaining two jokes:
What do you call a rooster that stares at lettuce all day long? Chicken sees a salad.
Why didn't the rooster tell Dad Jokes? He was afraid his kids would crack up!
