Does anyone else get mad ....

[DrakeMaiden]

I just want to say that I love you guys!

Oh, and totally agree.

Fortunately my grandmother died before we got around to telling her that we were raising ducks. She probably would have passed away right then and there when we told her anyway -- she was very concerned about appearances and one's rank in life.

My brother has made it clear he will NOT eat any eggs from my ducks.

Hee hee, so when we had some extended family visiting last year, my mom asked for some of our eggs to make deviled eggs for the guests. We didn't say a word about where the eggs came from. The guests actually remarked that the eggs were REALLY GOOD!!!!

I think my brother was a little po'ed when he heard where the eggs came from, but we never told the guests.

 

[quadcam79]

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not to threadjack but heres a prime example...tomatoes ...store bought tomatoes suck...every one in awhile you can get some with decent color and flavor but for the most part all you find are rock solid, slightly pink and almost white inside excuses for tomatoes....nothing beats homegrown and that pretty much goes for all things

 

[Blisschick]

To clarify my statement -- SOME commercial things. I agree that fresh veggies from the garden and stuff you grow at home tastes way better than anything grow for commercial purposes. I was thinking more along the lines of things like pizza, etc., that you just can't replicate as well at home.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Homemade pizza is 1,000 x better than commercial . . . what kind of recipe do you use? Do you make your own crust?

 

[WoodlandWoman]

OMG I love my own pizzas!

I really am not trying to pick on you, Blisschick. Maybe I just love to cook and I have spent a lot of years tailoring recipes to the way my DH and I like them, rather than for the masses. I often will tell my DH when I am cooking or baking that it's a prototype. That way he doesn't get his hopes up too high and he also knows that I'm going to want a critique as he eats, not just a gobble and go.

Something that really bugged me, was when the pork industry decided that pork had to go really lean and then it had the flavor of cardboard. Bacon was still fatty and we quit eating pork entirely, because it had no flavor anymore. I know they eventually started to try to breed flavor back in, but sometimes I really want to just find somebody around here that's still raising pigs that taste good. I have a big freezer...

 

[silkiechicken]

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Animals are intelligent in their own ways, but there is little correlation with brain mass and intelligence, even when looking at humans. It's all a matter of the connections within it.

And how big of a mass difference in brain is there between a jersey giant and a 2 lb tea cup designer dog? Or between a serama and a cornish x?

 

[michaelvcrowder]

purple chicken,
i don't know how that works but my chicken is smarter than quite a few of the people i have to deal with every day.

quadcam79,
there is a reason that commercial tomatoes don't have a flavor that compares to vine ripened. the store bought kind are picked green and sent to the plant where they are sprayed with a chemical that inhibits them from turning color. then they are stored and shipped. the driver is given a fogger that looks like a big bug bomb. at a designated time he pulls over, throws the ether bomb in the trailer and closes the door. when he arrives at the final destination they have magically turned red. you are buying a product that has been chemically treated twice to ensure it arrives at the grocers looking attractive.

taste? who cares about that as long as it is pretty? ;-)
michael

 

[mom'sfolly]

WoodlandWoman,
I like pork, but I love the locally raised Berkshire pork I get from the farmers market. Berkshires are a heritage breed known for marbled meat. This is literally the best pork I have ever eaten. If you can find someone raising pork locally, it is well worth it. Much like backyard eggs compared to commercial, or a homegrown tomato compared with a grocery store one.

 

[Blisschick]

I've tried to make homemade pizza before, but it just wasn't very good. I also don't have a working oven, so there's no way I can improve upon my past failures. I used to work for Godfather's Pizza way back when, and so far, I have found no other pizza to top theirs.

 

[devora]

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Not sure if it's a CA thing ("Hey man, whatever...") but the idea of a truly rural person (not some neighborhood w/ trees, but rural 'dirt road, I'm in the-middle-of-nowhere and I love it that way' person) ever thinking chickens are anything but way, way cool sounds so frustrating!

I have town friends who watch too much frenzied tv nonsense about bird flu, but they would never (ever!) question our desire to raise chickens. Healthy birds, fresh eggs? Who can question that?