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

[AvianEgo]

I get every ignorant comment you can think of. One woman i work worth will not eat brown eggs. She is convinced she can't eat them because eggs are suppose to be white. I've also run into a ton of people who think all organic eggs are brown, that white eggs are not organic. I just shake my head..

 

[7 Biddies]

What happened to "the customer is always right?" And who buys a house without a bathtub/ only a shower?
I had a co-worker who couldn't stand the smell of Roast Beef because once when pregnant, she became very nauseated. Her baby was in his mid 20s when she told me (expecting first grandchild thus the reason for stories) the the association was still just as strong as when it first happend. She knew the reason for it, but couldn't get past the one time reaction. Sometimes are brain doesn't always make the correct connections.

CG

I forget the psychological term for this type of food aversion, but it's adaptive behavior that's borne out of survival instinct. When our ancestors were foraging for food, they often didn't know what was poisonous and what wasn't. If they ate something that made them sick, they would develop an aversion to it which would protect them from further sampling of that food item, and possible death from poisoning.

Sorry if my explanation isn't very good, but I haven't had any coffee yet. It's still brewing.

 

[7 Biddies]

I forget the psychological term for this type of food aversion, but it's adaptive behavior that's borne out of survival instinct. When our ancestors were foraging for food, they often didn't know what was poisonous and what wasn't. If they ate something that made them sick, they would develop an aversion to it which would protect them from further sampling of that food item, and possible death from poisoning.

Sorry if my explanation isn't very good, but I haven't had any coffee yet. It's still brewing.

Ah ... here we go:


Wikipedia:

Conditioned taste aversion,[1] also known as Garcia effect (after Dr. John Garcia), and as "Sauce-Bearnaise Syndrome", a term coined by Seligman and Hager,[2] is an example of classical conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning. Conditioned taste aversion occurs when a subject associates the taste of a certain food with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance. Generally, taste aversion is caused after ingestion of the food causes nausea, sickness, or vomiting. The ability to develop a taste aversion is considered an adaptive trait or survival mechanism that trains the body to avoid poisonous substances (e.g., poisonous berries) before they can cause harm. This association is meant to prevent the consumption of the same substance (or something that tastes similar) in the future, thus avoiding further poisoning. However, conditioned taste aversion sometimes occurs in subjects when sickness was merely coincidental and not related to the food (for example, a subject who gets a cold or the flu shortly after eating bananas might develop an aversion to the taste of bananas).

 

[Scott H]

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I have a conditioned taste aversion to tequila.....coincidence....I think not.

 

[7 Biddies]

I have a conditioned taste aversion to tequila.....coincidence....I think not.

Most likely, self induced.

 

[Scott H]

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[RachaelS]

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I have a conditioned taste aversion to tequila.....coincidence....I think not.

Mine is champagne and tequila, just the smell of either will make me queasy, LOL!!!! Yep, self induced!!! Also, I got sick (I think the flu) after eating a fried chicken patty (the gross kind you buy in bulk from Sams), it took me over 20 years to get over it. Still, not my preferred food.

 

[tsuninight]

HAH I recently had a conversation with my step father who thinks I'm crazy for having chickens, and even more so for supporting their bug eating habits.

"Have you seen what they eat?! That' can't be better for you" (I find this funny considering he grew up with chickens)

I then smiled and proceeded to show him a national geographic article about how much better free range eggs are than caged. Then provided a couple of articles on the sanitary conditions of some of the 'caged' chickens.

The look on his face as it sunk in and made sense was pretty funny.

 

[cassie]

HAH I recently had a conversation with my step father who thinks I'm crazy for having chickens, and even more so for supporting their bug eating habits.

"Have you seen what they eat?! That' can't be better for you" (I find this funny considering he grew up with chickens)

I then smiled and proceeded to show him a national geographic article about how much better free range eggs are than caged. Then provided a couple of articles on the sanitary conditions of some of the 'caged' chickens.

The look on his face as it sunk in and made sense was pretty funny.

Does your step father eat crab or lobster? If he does, ask him to check out what THEY eat.

 

[Alaskan]

Here lately I have been bombarded with this question at every cookout we've had:

Can I have a couple of your chickens?

Ummm, NO! They aren't party favors...

Huh? Huh? WHAT?

People stop by, see your cool stuff, and want to know if they can walk off with it?

Like, cool car, can I have it?