Fat Hen

Fat hen or fat-hen may refer to:

  • Hen and chicks, common name for a group of small succulent flowering plants native to Europe and northern Africa
  • Fat Hen, common name for Aristolochia rotunda (Smearwort), a perennial herb native to Southern Europe
  • Fat-hen, common name in Britain for Chenopodium album (White Goosefoot), a fast-growing weedy annual plant that is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop, where it is referred to in Hindi as "Bathua".
  • Fette Henne, or "fat hen", nickname for the portly eagle of the Coat of arms of Germany that used to decorate the chamber of the Bundestag in Bonn, Germany. Also shows on certain German Euro coins

Famous quotes containing the words fat and/or hen:

    “Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “When every Sunday afternoon
    On the Green Lands I walk
    And wear a coat in fashion,
    Memories of the talk
    Of hen wives and of queer old men
    Brace me and make me strong....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)