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

[Peep_Show]

Truth be told, though, I couldn't eat my dogs. I'm one of those that in Hurricane Katrina would've stayed behind with my dogs. I mean, afterall, they have saved my DH's life and done the Lassie thing. What kind of a reward would putting them in the stew pot be?

 

[Amarisus]

My uncle always tells the story when he was in China, He saw this puppy in a window so he thought he'd save it. He told the guy working there he wanted to buy the puppy in the window. The guy took the puppy in the back and brought back a neatly packaged hunk of meat

Why he told this story to his 5 and 10 year old niece and nephew I'll never know lol

 

[ronott1]

My uncle always tells the story when he was in China, He saw this puppy in a window so he thought he'd save it. He told the guy working there he wanted to buy the puppy in the window. The guy took the puppy in the back and brought back a neatly packaged hunk of meat

Why he told this story to his 5 and 10 year old niece and nephew I'll never know lol

A twisted type of Modern Fable?

 

[Weirdness555]

That makes me so sad. Dogs are such emotional creatures, can we stop talking about eating them now please?

 

[Kymarose]

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I suppose it all depended on where a person lived. My grandparents were on a small farm during those days. They were "poor" in many ways... but always had good farm milk, eggs, meat and veggies to eat. Times were very hard indeed, and those who were "poor" and in the city had it worse. I still like to think of the little farms, as I knew them, who raised their own food and had plenty to eat. I have never lived in Asia... but have heard many stories about our dear Native Americans serving up puppy.

Wow..; did I open a can of worms... or what?

Back to the chickens... my babies (they are all adult chickens and ducks) but babies to me....are very cold today. We are having a horrible cold spell here in western Oregon... in the 20's today, and to be the same tomorrow. Where's the rain??? I check my "friends" often.. they have food and water, however their water keeps freezing. Poor babies... they do have a sheltered place to stay in.

I'm fairly new to the forum... and enjoy reading and posting now and then. This thread is very entertaining.

Sorry about the pups in the stew pot way back when.

 

[gimmie birdies]

We had zero degrees. I have been soaking dogfood to get my ladies extra protein.

 

[Gryphon]

I've gotten quite a few golden comments from people.

"You have chickens?! Do you eat their eggs?!"
"No, I just look at them. Of course I eat them!"

"How many chickens do you have?"
"Six."
"WOW that's a lot of chickens!"
"Not really, they need company to be happy, and they keep each other warm in the winter."
"You don't heat their house?!"
"No, I don't want to risk a fire, or have the power go out and have them freeze to death. Besides, they're covered in down jackets at all times."

"Blue eggs! Is the yolk blue too?!"
"Do brown eggs have brown yolk?"

"A blue egg, oh I'm not going to eat that!" (my boss's wife said that when he brought home an egg I gave him. He ate and enjoyed it. She also got weirded out over goose eggs that I bought. I informed her that they make FANTASTIC omelettes.)

These ones are from my aunt...Who was raised on a farm!

"You have all hens? You won't get any eggs then, you need a rooster!"
"A hen needs a rooster to lay eggs as much as you need a male to do so. You only need a male or a rooster for babies/chicks."

"The eggs are soft when they're laid and harden really fast when they hit the air!"
"........" (I was walking out the door and just couldn't formulate a response to something like that in such a short time. I can only assume that as the baby of the family, her elder siblings pulled her leg, A LOT. Plus she's the type that couldn't wait to get away from the farm and live in the city and be pampered.)

She's said a few other things that slip my mind and it's all utterly ridiculous stuff.

 

[QueenofKings]

Dog? I don't think either of the rents have eaten it. They've eaten donkey, lamb, venison, goat, rabbit, snails, frog and horse. (Outside of the typical, chicken, fish, pork and beef)

I've eaten lamb, goat and frog. Though a few family friends have eaten rats as well, since they grew up in poverty in Mexico. You eat what you can get and kill what you can. Though, the rents have joked numerous times about eating the cats and boiling them down.

Eh. Meat is meat. If it's not forbidden to me, then I'll eat it.

 

[Weirdness555]

Since when is lamb an unusual meat? Is it uncommon in the US? We have lamb almost once a fortnight It's my favourite meat. I would eat any of those things if it looked appealing, I'm not sure on snails because they sound slimy (I don't eat shellfish for that reason) but if they were cooked in a way which made them not slimy I'd eat them. It's just that I have a special relationship with dogs, they are practically human and I consider them family. I just couldn't eat one, I'd sooner eat human.

 

[Tiller]

The question is why would one eat their dog? There is so much food out there that you would have to go through before the dog debate would even be considered. Areas of the world where people eat dog, or horse, or donkey, or whatever we might consider odd they are not raised as a best friend or companion but raised with the same mentality that we raise farm animals. As far as unusual foods it's all in the location. Some people around my area wouldn't even consider opossum, racoons, and the occasional coyote all that unusual, all can be rather tasty if prepared correctly.. As farm as lamb, I consider that a delicacy.

Back on topic though: My wife watches a few kids off and on, and one of the children's mother made the comment of, well those are so many different kinds of birds don't they fight all the time? And then proceeded to inform me about how store bought eggs are "better" then farm raised eggs, because that's what the person at the local grocery store told her.....