My parents are divorced my father remarried a major city slicker. Although she tries to pretend she's not, and he has improved her some in that area.
My DH2B is from a farming family. DH2B's brother raised chickens and turkeys for the fair several years. My father grew up on a small farm. My Grandpa on my Mom's side also worked a small farm. DH2B and my friends are nearly all farmers, dating farmers, or married to farmers. All of DH2B's aunts and uncles were raised in a farming family(although mostly crops and cattle-they knew where their food came from).
So enough of the back story. We had a late Christmas this last weekend with DH2B's mother and siblings and while we were there I offered some of our fresh free range beautiful eggs to DH2B's sister whom is on a special diet right now. Knowing the health benefits of pastured and free range eggs over store bought I though she would be grateful. She laughed and told me they were too fresh. To fresh??????.... Well I could save you some for a couple weeks of you want. So basically I never did understand except that she said no store bought eggs are fine for her and that even though they're old and not as healthy they're cleaner and according to her less likely to get you sick and she just can't eat an egg that came out of a chicken's butt.. ..
I couldn't help myself guys! It was word vommit. I just looked at her said okay no problem and by the way the store bought eggs come from a chicken's butt too.
Oh my gosh! We live in a rural area surrounded by rural people! I mean holy crow! But it gets worse!
Same night we go to a new years eve party at a friend's. Where we begin a conversation with a friend of ours going to school for food sciences. She was pretty tipsy by this point but walked us over to the food table and asked us of we had eaten any of it. We told her not yet. She then told us thats good because none of its safe to eat because it wasn't prepared in a manufacturing plant(I believe she meant like a factory.) And it wasn't processed food. Ew she actually said processed food is the only safe food!!! Like whoa! This young woman is great love her to death. Could have slapped her. So of course eggs and our chicken meat got brought up(Yes sorry if that offends anyone. Of our birds we hatch out the spare cockerals are raised to eating age and processed humanely by us.) And she, well you can imagine, our eggs and meat are bad BC they aren't processed and carry salmonella and all that. I looked at her shocked and said your family raises cattle you grew up on a farm. Isn't that kind of a conflict of interest with what you're telling us?
Her response was that you cook beef so it's okay. Yes because most people eat their chicken raw.
I know what you're thinking it was the alcohol. But she really is like crazy about this stuff it's nuts! I mean this person was at a bonfire this last summer and lost her appetite BC she saw a rooster breed a hen while they were free ranging. It was only when I finally explained a chicken or rather a rooster's anatomy to her that she stopped carrying on. BC there wasn't penetration...
Hello they have cattle breed cows and help calve but that was gross?!
I tell ya sometimes I think that people are a waste of time.
My father wants to buy eggs from us his wife won't let them. My sister in law says she wants eggs and then never calls(she likes farm fresh eggs). My aunt wants them but lives too far away and doesn't see why we charge for them since they're "free". Bc it's not like last week we didn't buy 1000 lbs yes you read that right of feed. Which may or may not last us a month.
DH2B's family think we overcharge for the eggs and half of the don't see a difference between store bought and their eggs of course I haven't cracked an egg open for them, shown and explained the differences before.
Yet everyone loved our eggs when we brought devilled eggs to get togethers. Everyone tells us they're beautiful. Idk people are dumb lol. It's true.
