Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[sepaditty1]

[The first week or so of school a new student from "up North" told me that everyone was so sweet to her. Including a nursing home resident that would always say, "Bless your heart." I was trying so hard to not bust out laughing. Finally I told her that was NOT a compliment.]

Have you warned her about "isn't that nice", too?

Southerners aren't really nicer - they just manage to put you down in a sweet sounding way. Must be all that "sweet tea" we drink.

Yeah, when I moved from PA to SC I was shocked to find out that the whole Southern Hospitality thing I'd heard about was a lie. There aren't very many nice people down here.

 

[mrballance]

Sure we do. Eggs grow in those styrofoam cartons, milk is manufactured in those plastic jugs, and meat comes from the meat counter. No animals or dirt anywhere.

Love it !!!

 

[mrballance]

Now that's raising a baby right! I have skinned a deer, catfish, chickens, and squirrels. My kids have all seen it and I tell them where their food comes from. Our neighbor has cows across the road and they know that's where their hamburgers come from. Every time my son sees me cooking any kind of meat, he asks if daddy shot it and did I skin it. lol We also garden and my little one was helping me water it last week. He would water a plant and say, "Help it grow." He then looked at me and said, "Help you grow, momma?" lol I'm only 5' tall. It's sad I've got a 2 year old making short jokes at me.

Well Bless your heart

 

[boundtogoboogie]

I am somewhere between laughter and tears on this one. I only got my first dozen chicks this year after wanting to do it for all the years I have worked at TSC, but I still know, and have for a very long time, that I'd much rather eat the eggs from a family flock than from the grocery store. BYC eggs are lower in cholesterol, higher in omegas and just plain better tasting than factory farm eggs. I had a lady tell me she would never eat the green and blue eggs, but when we got the Ameraucanas in this year it was the deciding factor in my finally giving in and buying chicks. I prefer brown eggs to white eggs, though I know they don't taste any different. I have always made a point of dragging my kids through the livestock barns at the State Fair, because I wanted them to understand where their food came from, whether it was eggs or the meat I put on the grill. The disconnect between food and the animals that provide it is scary to me. Both of my girls have flirted with vegetarian diets and decided they enjoy meat too much to eat that way, but they both understand the farm to table cycle that provides them with this. I wish I was able to raise meat birds for my table, but I know my own limitations. If I have raised it and held it and cared for it I would not be able to eat it. I just have to buy my roasters.

 

[boundtogoboogie]

Isn't "bless your heart" southern speak for "you are absolutely an idiot"?

 

[Aunt ruth]

Isn't "bless your heart" southern speak for "you are absolutely an idiot"?

Yep

 

[Aunt ruth]

Though it can also mean you poor pitiful soul if used non sarcastically.

 

[boundtogoboogie]

I had a customer ask me about the rooster thing the other day and I gave her the explaination I knew she would understand.

"You are a female mammal. You produce ova, eggs, once a month, and would do so whether there were males present or not. The hen produces and egg and incubates her young externally. If no male is present, the egg will not be fertilized, just like you. The difference is that we incubate internally. Birds incubate externally." She completely understood this when presented this way. Of course, this was an intelligent, well educated woman. That wouldn't work on all my customers, but for someone with a basic understanding of reproduction it is an effective way to explain it.

 

[boundtogoboogie]

Lets amend that to "people are no nicer down south than anywhere else." There are nice people and awful people where ever you go. I like to think the nice ones outnumber the nasty ones, but I still like my dogs better than most people. At least if they bite me I know I probably had it coming.

 

[mrballance]

Isn't "bless your heart" southern speak for "you are absolutely an idiot"?

That is too harsh. More like we are sorry for your lot in life