- One is definitely too few chuggas.
- Eight seems like an exhausting number of chuggas.
I insisted it was obviously two "chuggas."
But that sent the Insider Slack into a frenzy.
This Facebook post from a Vermont moms group reignited a long-running internet debate over how many "chuggas" come before "choo choo" when imitating a train.
Answers on the thread ranged from two to eight, with even numbers being far more common than odd ones.
Some reasoned fewer than four chuggas was too few to get the train up to speed. And really milking those chugs would, in theory, keep a kid entertained for longer.
Others argued that eight chuggas was simply too exhausting — maniacal even.
An Insider editor's nearly-2-year-old, whose fabulous nickname is "news baby," settled the debate: given the option between a prolonged chug and a shorter ride, she responded in the affirmative to just two chuggas.
How many chuggas does it take to get to the choo choo? The world may never know.