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

[loveourbirds]

Quote: ive been known to write "don't eat yellow snow" on a napkin as a tip.

 

[tsuninight]

My husband sold a dozen of our large brown eggs to a lady he worked with. She was so excited to get them but when her husband looked at them he said he wouldn't eat them (They were clean, just different shades of brown and not all perfectly the same size). She told my husband she had to scramble them and feed them to the dogs!!!!! Oh what a waste. Guess she didn't think about the other aspects of eggs besides just to cook and eat them.

Lol if Jer ever tried to pull something like that (though I really doubt he would), I'd cook them anyway when he wasn't paying attention then let him know what I thought of his egg snobbery lol. PPl get so strange about so many simple things.

 

[NickyPick]

My DH will leave 3 pennies tip if the service is bad He thinks that way they won't think he just 'forgot' to leave the tip or something. The 3 pennies sends a message. They got what the service warrented.

But if the food is bad/not right, it's not the server's fault, but the kitchen. Why punish the one person in the restaurant making 2.65 an hour for something that isn't their fault? They're still bringing you the food/drinks, running back and forth to make it right.

 

[Amastacia]

But if the food is bad/not right, it's not the server's fault, but the kitchen. Why punish the one person in the restaurant making 2.65 an hour for something that isn't their fault? They're still bringing you the food/drinks, running back and forth to make it right.

service is more than just the order. when you don't get your drink until you are half done eating, that is the server's fault. and as for the minimum wage, that is all they get as long as they get tips to bring them up to the regular state minimum. if they don't, their employer is supposed to pay pay them enough to meet minimum wage. i know this doesn't always happen, but if the server ever notices that they didn't bring home a total of minimum wage, they need to bring it to their employer's attention, or to higher authorities if that doesn't work. most people just don't know that and so it doesn't happen.

on the other hand, i dislike being directly responsible for someone's wage when i didn't get to choose them. i think tips shouldn't be "required" and that servers should make a reasonable wage without it.

 

[Amarisus]

Here in California servers make minimum wage + tips so they get it good here lol

 

[Mac14]

Brilliant! Brilliant!

I think the kids will love this worm bread...It looks good!

The In-Laws...They REFUSE to eat ANYTHING I cook, bake or whatever. I even tried to use THEIR recipes. Doesn't matter if it's a chef's recipe from the finest restaurant in all of Europe. Believe me, I've tried and cooked/baked some really neat things...they just turn their noses up. Then, I realized they do the same at restaurants. For germ freaks, they may have eaten a few louggies from some angry chefs if you ask me...another reason we don't want to eat out with them if you know what I mean!

LOL!

You should take them to a McDonald's and then afterwords tell them what happens to to the chickens and cows that go into those. But maybe they are too much of germiphobes (spelling) to go there in the first place!

 

[settingdusk]

Me "you want some chicken? i just processed these two two days ago"
Roommate "sure, haha i will have some chicken"
Me "okay im frying some up"
*fixes food*
Girlfriend "Oh, those are the roosters we killed? I want some!"
Roommate "Wait...you weren't joking?"
Me "No, I raised these from chicks"
Roommate "Well there really isn't enough for all of us and I ate some earlier"
Me "uhhh okay, there is two chickens..."
Girlfriend "He's scared"
*Roommate takes a bit then sleeks off to bathroom*
Girlfriend "Why did you push him? Couldn't you see he was scared?"
Me "Of what? Healthy food, raised on bugs, grass and mixed grains?"

 

[cassie]

You should take them to a McDonald's and then afterwords tell them what happens to to the chickens and cows that go into those. But maybe they are too much of germiphobes (spelling) to go there in the first place!

What do you mean what happens to the chickens and cows that go into those? Other than go through the processing plant, that is. By the way, some years ago when I took a bacteriology class in college, one assignment was to collect ice water samples from various eateries around town. MacDonalds was one of the cleanest. Some of the fancier restaurants did not fare nearly as well.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

What do you mean what happens to the chickens and cows that go into those? Other than go through the processing plant, that is. By the way, some years ago when I took a bacteriology class in college, one assignment was to collect ice water samples from various eateries around town. MacDonalds was one of the cleanest. Some of the fancier restaurants did not fare nearly as well.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but your question got me thinking because I do agree with you and yet ...

CAFOs seem to be disease factories, so a lot of science goes into keeping the animal populations at CAFOs healthy, which means the animals are denied the opportunity to anything/everything they might have experienced in a "natural" environment. And once something "bad" gets into one CAFO, it is easily shared with the processing plant it travels to, so problems tend to spread.

As meat production gets more and more centralized, with bigger batches and faster processing, more and more science is going into sanitizing slaughterhouse operations so that the products are safe to eat. What they are sanitizing isn't actually the meat, but the contaminants that find their way into the meat via the high-volume centralized batch processing. Use your imagination, maybe even read The Jungle, for a list of potential contaminants.

I believe that the USA has a comparatively safe food system and I personally eat "commercial" food with confidence. But I also believe we have overdone the "efficiency" factor and are losing too much in terms of safety and quality of the food produced by this system. I believe we jumped the shark when we started trying to figure out how to sanitize animal feces so that it is safe to eat instead of slowing down the process so that the feces doesn't find its way into the product. Joel Salatin addresses this issue with specificity when talking about the test results for his on-farm processing facility compared to industrial poultry processing plants. I've learned more about this issue by listening to "What's Eating What" with Michael Olsen at Food Chain Radio http://www.metrofarm.com/mf_Food_Chain_Radio.php There have been several TED Talks about food in the past few years, each with a valuable message. Et cetera. It is a hot topic these days, with a fair amount of passion from all directions and lots of conflicting information.

So about McDonalds: I believe places like McDonalds in the USA tend to have very good, well tested procedures for handling food. I believe it isn't very likely a person will get sick from a single McDonalds meal. I believe it is likely that an independent restaurant will not have the benefit of as much procedure and practical testing as McDonalds does. This makes McDonalds relatively "safer." That seems like common sense to me when considered from that narrow perspective.

From a broader perspective, when I think very much about the practicalities and realities of the industrial food system here in the USA I do feel more than a little bit sick inside.

This is a big part of why I have poultry in my back yard.

 

[LadyBehir]

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