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

[GimmeCake]

40 years ago, when Silkies were very little known, I used to show them in the 4-H fair. I'd hold the hens and let people pet them (this was pre E. coli scares). Sometimes I would tell people I got them by crossing a chicken and a rabbit. You could tell the city kids vs the country kids by whether they believed me.

 

[chicksurreal]

Lol!

 

[7 Biddies]

Oh on to home dairy? I smell a can of worms.
I could open it if you like... Just kidding.
Why are people afraid of home maid butter? Crazy, is it less toxic if it's from a goats milk?
" your drinking raw milk? Aren't you afraid of getting sick?"
" not if the cows healthy and the bucket etc is clean"
" well I'd never risk it! Much safer from the store"
A short for of a conversation I had.

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God Bless Charles Darwin for figuring out natural selection. The thought of it brings me peace.

 

[hennible]

My poor brother! So true. Ever seen the Darwin awards? Natural selection at its best.

 

[oldrooster]

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Yes in part the school lunch is one of many reasons kids are fat (mind you I said one of many) they ate healthier lunches when I started school in the early 80's but still I had never had a corn dog, pig in a blanket, or tater tots until I was in a school lunchroom. Gravy and fried foods where rare at my house growing up, like 1-2 times a year for either. dessert was a once a month treat if that often. I know that my home was an exception not the rule. Once a year my parents had literally a full chest deep freeze (a true chest kind, one you could kill a family of four and hide the dead bodies in kind) they bought a steer and had a local processing plant butcher it to order. I grew up with at least one meal a year each containing one of the following brains, ox tail, heart and beef tongue. most people my age have not and will not eat those things.

 

[mrballance]

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Yes in part the school lunch is one of many reasons kids are fat (mind you I said one of many) they ate healthier lunches when I started school in the early 80's but still I had never had a corn dog, pig in a blanket, or tater tots until I was in a school lunchroom. Gravy and fried foods where rare at my house growing up, like 1-2 times a year for either. dessert was a once a month treat if that often. I know that my home was an exception not the rule. Once a year my parents had literally a full chest deep freeze (a true chest kind, one you could kill a family of four and hide the dead bodies in kind) they bought a steer and had a local processing plant butcher it to order. I grew up with at least one meal a year each containing one of the following brains, ox tail, heart and beef tongue. most people my age have not and will not eat those things.

Most of the time that stuff was made in to sausage at my house.

 

[evemfoster]

Most of the time that stuff was made in to sausage at my house.

Yah, a lot of that stuff ended up in the sausage at my house too.

When I was growing up in the late 50's and 60's, my family grew nearly everything we ate for a family of eight on a small 4 acre farm. We all pitched in from turning a acre sized garden with shovels to canning or storing all the root vegetables in the cellar. We butchered and froze all our own meat, pork, chicken, deer, rabbit, catfish and we had our own eggs. Our goal was to have a years worth of everything we could produce put away before winter.

Mom made everything from scratch and cooked it all on a cast iron wood burning stove. About the only thing we bought at the store was the staples, sugar, flour, shortening, salt, baking powder/soda, spices and anything we couldn't grow or make ourselves like oatmeal and dried noodles. In other words we only bought ingredients. This was at the time Swanson TV dinners came out and all the kids at school were always complaining about how sick of them they were and how much they liked the school lunches. The school still cooked from scratch, real mashed potatoes, fried chicken, beef roasts, green beans and so on. My family only got TV dinners a few times as a treat. My brothers and i still argue about how many times we had TV dinners as we were growing up I believe it was 6 and my brothers say 5.

After i grew up and left home I eventually started eating out about as often as i cooked and have been fighting the battle of the bulge for most of my adult life. A couple of years ago i found i had become allergic to a few of the modern foods additives so i brought out moms old recipe book and started cooking everything from scratch again. To make a long story short i have been slowly loosing weight for those 2 years without even trying to diet. And everything tastes so much better than the packaged crap.

 

[Toots Birds]

Quote: Yep, cram the kids all together in tight rooms, have these strict testing that they have to pass, take away the ability to really effectively punish kids with something that carries a lot of weight, that phone call home to their parental units just doesn't carry as much weight when the parents immediately take the kids side, and lets not discount the effects of letting jocks get away with everything short of murder in schools because if they don't play the football team will really suck instead of having a shot at least being .500.

I look at how kids act nowadays and how they acted in the 60's and agree with you all the way.

It drives me crazy how kids feel they can act to adults now.

Total disrespect. That is why the only thing kids know how to do is fiddle around on there handheld machines. What I say, is bring out the paddles!

 

[cassie]

I look at how kids act nowadays and how they acted in the 60's and agree with you all the way.

It drives me crazy how kids feel they can act to adults now.

Total disrespect. That is why the only thing kids know how to do is fiddle around on there handheld machines. What I say, is bring out the paddles!

You can teach kids respect without resorting to paddles. The only thing a spanking ever taught me was to be more careful next time. It sure didn't teach me respect. I think the big problem is people bring children into the world and then don't take the responsibility of civilizing them because they don't want to be bothered. Children take time, effort, and commitment. People who don't want to give these things simply should not have children. That is the way I look at it anyway.

 

[JadedPhoenix]

I look at how kids act nowadays and how they acted in the 60's and agree with you all the way.

It drives me crazy how kids feel they can act to adults now.

Total disrespect. That is why the only thing kids know how to do is fiddle around on there handheld machines. What I say, is bring out the paddles!

The problem is that their parents are the ones who teach the kids to behave so badly. I have neighbors on either side of my apartments that are, shall we say, less than cordial. I've had issues with them for the last few weeks and the parents have taught the kids to yell obscenities as they drive by when they see me out at my chicken run or driveway. A truly "mature" way to handle the situation. NOT!! With parents out there like that, it is no small wonder that kids go to school striking teachers and cussing them out with no fear of reprisal.