Slaps Chicken at 3275.95 MPH

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Published September 27, 2026

On February 14th, 2019, a Reddit user asked how fast someone would need to slap a chicken to cook it through kinetic energy alone. Three days later, Facebook user Parker Ormonde ran the math and answered 3,725.95 MPH, and the screenshot of his physics calculation spawned an image macro that got remixed through Slaps Roof of Car, Prequel Memes, and Shaggy's Power templates.

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Overview

The joke rides on a single Facebook screenshot in which Parker Ormonde works through the conversion from kinetic energy to thermal energy and arrives at 3,725.95 MPH, or 1,665.65 m/s, as the hand speed required to fully cook a raw chicken with one slap1. The oddly precise decimal is the punchline. Templates paste that exact figure onto existing image macros so the answer sounds like a straight-faced physics result even when the delivery is absurd2.

The format works because the maths reads as authoritative while describing something ridiculous. Common variations pair the 3,725.95 MPH stat with the Slaps Roof of Car car salesman line3, Obi-Wan and Anakin Prequel Memes exchanges4, Skyrim perk trees5, and Shaggy's Power charts6, each swapping the usual punchline for chicken velocity.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (question) / Facebook (viral answer)
Creator
Parker Ormonde
Date
2019

The setup came on February 14th, 2019, when Reddit user MrWaterplant posted to /r/NoStupidQuestions asking, "If kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy, how hard to I have to slap a chicken to cook it?"7. Three days later, on February 17th, Facebook user Parker Ormonde posted a screenshot of his own reply, working out the conversion and returning the figure 3,725.95 MPH1.

Ormonde is the meme's creator in the sense that his screenshot supplied the exact number every later remix cites. His post pulled in over 37,000 reactions and more than 167,000 shares before the joke moved off Facebook2.

How It Spread

From Facebook the joke moved to iFunny, where a Slaps Roof of Car edit with a car salesman promising "this chicken is gonna cook so good" pulled over 47,000 likes3. On Reddit's /r/memes, a Prequel Memes take titled "Is It Possible?" gathered more than 23,000 points4.

/r/dankmemes user Herripotter posted a Skyrim skill tree parody framing the original question as an unlockable perk, and the post drew over 12,000 points5. Ormonde also boosted derivative posts through his own Facebook, including a Shaggy's Power meme by Michael Wolfe that picked up over 5,800 shares6. Know Your Meme catalogued the format later that year, tying the templates back to Ormonde's February 17th post2.

How to Use This Meme

Templates typically drop the 3,725.95 MPH figure into an existing image macro where a punchline would go. A common convention is to lift a two-panel format like Slaps Roof of Car or a Prequel Memes exchange and swap the closing line for a boast about chicken slap velocity34. The joke often includes the full decimal so the specificity sells the fake-science tone.

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