Some folks have issues with eating meat from an animal they've known personally while it was alive, especially those they've raised from birth. I'm getting to the point where I have more issues with eating meat from an animal that I have NOT met before, and don't know how well it was raised or how humanely it was processed.
I never liked handling uncooked chicken from the store, and would even forgo my cheapskate ways to pay extra for already cut-up pieces. But I don't have that problem with my home-grown chickens, they don't have that gross slimy feel.
Nifty, you and my youngest son can relate about drumsticks. He doesn't eat much meat, just hot dogs and chicken nuggets & fish sticks. But recently he asked for the drumstick from a chicken I was roasting. I think he was expecting it to be like a meat lollipop, like in the cartoons, a nice clump of meat on a bone like a stick. When he was faced with the reality, all the tendons & ligaments & connective tissue, he handed it right back to me.
I never liked handling uncooked chicken from the store, and would even forgo my cheapskate ways to pay extra for already cut-up pieces. But I don't have that problem with my home-grown chickens, they don't have that gross slimy feel.
Nifty, you and my youngest son can relate about drumsticks. He doesn't eat much meat, just hot dogs and chicken nuggets & fish sticks. But recently he asked for the drumstick from a chicken I was roasting. I think he was expecting it to be like a meat lollipop, like in the cartoons, a nice clump of meat on a bone like a stick. When he was faced with the reality, all the tendons & ligaments & connective tissue, he handed it right back to me.
