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

[cassie]

But if you are a dieabetic and eating fast food your choice of beverages are usually water, diet soda, sometimes unsweetened tea or coffee. so would you deny them the diet soda (that does not contain sugar)? I understand you meant someone counter reacting the callories in the food with a diet soda when they would usually drink a regular soda,but there is always 2 sides to every coin. Also everyone remembers the "documentary" super size me where a guy eats fast food and if asked he'd tell them yes to up sizeing the meal or an additonal item like a slice of pie, etc. A co-worker has been watching similar "documentaries" to see both sides of an issue and he saw one where someone wondered if that was true, and decided he didn't believe it 100% so he made his own doucmentary he researched the fast food places menus and callorie counts and proved eating 3 meals a day you could actually lose weight, but it was simply making informed choices.

I wouldn't deny anybody anything. And that was not the intent of my post. Assuming it even had a point. All I meant was I have seen, and known, people who are trying to cut calories. OK. Good for them. And they cut calories by ordering a diet soda to go with the double cheeseburger and large fries. It defies logic. If they want to cut calories it would make more sense to get a smaller burger and a small or even medium fries. In the total calorie count of a meal made up of a large double cheeseburger and large fries, the persentage of calories saved by ordering a diet soda rather then a regular soda is small. If people want or like diet sodas and choose to drink them that is fine with me. But the calories saved by doing so won't help much with the calorie count of the double cheeseburger and large fries. But it it makes them happy, who am I to judge? I don't happen to think it makes a whole lot of sense, but that's my opinion. And I'm sticking to it.

 

[oldrooster]

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I'm sorry we are fine I am way past it I am sorry I never made that more clear. I just simply went on a different rant and I guess I drug you along by mistake! my apologies.

 

[Amastacia]

My MotherInLaw feels the same about fresh eggs! "Eww I cant eat those, they are gross!" Cause they come out of the chicken's butt...We have had many discussions that always go the same.... very similar to the first post. I tried to tell her they are better, fresher, etc. We have been banned from taking anything that could contain eggs to her house when we go over for dinner. She loooved my deviled eggs, but wont let me make them anymore. Not sure what is wrong with that woman!

Sounds just like my mother in law. the problem is apparently just that they are brown. if i got white eggs she would be fine. she won't even eat store bought brown eggs. i'm not sure what she would think of blue or green ones. maybe i will have to get some EEs some day and find out.

 

[Onyx9370]

I was talking to my mother today, who is actually interested in my chickens and can't wait until they start laying so she can have her fair share of the eggs. I recently discovered i have 3 roos in the flock (they were all supposed to be pullets, but oh well i still got 30 girls!) So she asks if i will be having baby chicks, i said no I plan on collecting eggs everyday and not letting them sit the eggs. She asks if they eggs will be fertilized, i said possibly since they are in the same pen as the roos. Then she asks if chickens "actually have sex". She thought the hen lays the eggs then the rooster comes along and fertilis them. I said no, they actually mate, then the hen lays fetilized eggs. She didnt argue or anything, but i just thought it was a bit funny. I dont know where people learn this stuff!

 

[MidsummerNight]

My husbands Gma on slaughtering your own chickens "oh YUCK. I prefer them nice and sanitary with the plastic packaging."

 

[annewandering]

My sister in law wants to get rid of two banty roosters someone gave my brother. My mom asked me if I wanted them. She will not tolerate anything that is not paying its way. Anyway we were chatting about it and it turns out that she will not eat eggs that are not white. Apparently the brown ones are not good enough. And here I was hoping to unload chickens I dont want or have too many of on my brother since I know my brother is going to want chickens when he finishes his greenhouse improvements! lol.

 

[7 Biddies]

My MotherInLaw feels the same about fresh eggs! "Eww I cant eat those, they are gross!" Cause they come out of the chicken's butt...We have had many discussions that always go the same.... very similar to the first post. I tried to tell her they are better, fresher, etc. We have been banned from taking anything that could contain eggs to her house when we go over for dinner. She loooved my deviled eggs, but wont let me make them anymore. Not sure what is wrong with that woman!

Did she ever kiss her babies? And, just what did *they* come out of? Some people are so silly.

 

[chooks4life]

LOL 7 biddies...

Exactly what I was thinking, but dared not say...

Someone should ask her if she kissed her babies when they were still FRESH.

lol. Also, this white egg/brown egg prejudice is beginning to demonstrate to me how white folks back in the day could so gullibly believe black folks were tainted or not even human. I've always wondered how a color change so deeply impacts perceptions.

 

[7 Biddies]

I was talking to my mother today, who is actually interested in my chickens and can't wait until they start laying so she can have her fair share of the eggs. I recently discovered i have 3 roos in the flock (they were all supposed to be pullets, but oh well i still got 30 girls!) So she asks if i will be having baby chicks, i said no I plan on collecting eggs everyday and not letting them sit the eggs. She asks if they eggs will be fertilized, i said possibly since they are in the same pen as the roos. Then she asks if chickens "actually have sex". She thought the hen lays the eggs then the rooster comes along and fertilis them. I said no, they actually mate, then the hen lays fetilized eggs. She didnt argue or anything, but i just thought it was a bit funny. I dont know where people learn this stuff!

"I dont know where people learn this stuff!"

It's really more a matter of what people *don't* learn. But, I give your mom credit for having an open minded - being willing and anxious to try the eggs, and wanting to learn about chickens. Rather than having a closed mind about the whole thing, she's open to learning. Good for her! The people that drive me nuts and that I criticize, are the ones who aren't interested in learning, who refuse to eat anything but store bought white eggs, and the ones who correct *you* because they're convinced they're right and won't listen to anyone else. <sheesh>

Go Mom!

 

[7 Biddies]

she will not eat eggs that are not white. Apparently the brown ones are not good enough.

So, what color cow or carton does she insist her milk come from? How about her beef or pork; what color cows and pigs must they come from? If people would only think things through; they'd either get over their ridiculous biases, or starve to death and spare the rest of us.