Let’s talk turkey about chicken. Not chicken, the popular poultry that’s probably on your plate for dinner tonight — chicken, the test of wills “game” that goes on until somebody gives in.

The problem with playing chicken is that in most cases, both players lose. Take, for example, the chicken scene in the movie Rebel Without a Cause in which Jim Stark bails out of his car first, theoretically making him the loser, yet Buzz Gunderson goes over the cliff, killing him and making him the ultimate loser.