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

[7 Biddies]

The movie "Snatch" comes to mind...

I was thinking more along the lines of Weekend at Bernies.

 

[sunflour]

Hi!

I have not read through all of the posts, so I apologize for jumping in here and posting if this has been posted already. We have a bunch of chickens and I sell or donate excess eggs. Well a few weeks ago one of my olive eggers started laying & I had (excitedly) told most of my customers about the new green eggs. Must have neglected to tell one customer though. I gave him his eggs, he paid me & went home. Next day, I get a call that he has a rotten egg! Then he said it's an odd color (green!). When I explained, he is still scared to eat it. Said it just doesn't look right. LOL!! The eggs to me are (of course) beautiful

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I also have another story. I was bringing eggs to work and a couple of young girls were sitting in the breakroom. I showed them the eggs (because I love them) and
one girl said "They're BROWN!"
I said "Yes, My hens lay brown eggs."
The other girl piped up and said "They all do! The grocery store eggs are bleached!"

Welcome…love the rotten egg comment, maybe that one is not as bad as thinking they bleach the eggs!

 

[7 Biddies]

In Key West it was a common occurrence for visitors to think they were in a foreign country. Almost any day I'd be asked if US stamps would work for their post cards, did they have to exchange their American money for ours, would their cell phones work since they were out of the country, etc.

Two H.S. grads away from home for the 1st time stick out in my mind...they asked me if the chicken was our state bird (chickens roam freely in KW). They asked me that after already telling me they were from central Florida and they were amazed when I told them their state bird was the same as ours in KW.

Lots of stories from those days. Some days it was funny and sometimes just plain aggravating. Too many people seem to pack their suitcases with everything but their brains.

Will stories from my old stewardess (as we were called back then) days count as tourist stories?? I did a LOT of NY to Miami trips. We used to say they checked their brains at the ticket counter.

 

[N F C]

Will stories from my old stewardess (as we were called back then) days count as tourist stories?? I did a LOT of NY to Miami trips. We used to say they checked their brains at the ticket counter.

You bet they would count! I'd love to hear some of your stories.

 

[7 Biddies]

You bet they would count! I'd love to hear some of your stories.

Those late night flights were murder. Many a honeymoon started on them.

 

[N F C]

Another favorite story from KW...I was standing right outside the door of our shop when a group of 20-somethings walked by, all with their faces buried in their 'smart' phones. The lead girl was complaining loudly that the shoe store they were looking for was right here but she couldn't find it. When I got her attention (and face) off her phone, I pointed across the street at the huge sign about 20 feet from where we were standing...the store was directly in front of them, if they had only looked up from their phones.

Guess smart phones are no guarantee the user will be smarter, lol.

 

[jmbwholesale]

My cousin's wife is a beautiful gal, from the city, never exposed to chickens before. I walked her to the shed to see the newly hatched peeps, so she asked, how do you get baby peeps? I replied from the eggs. She thought about this then asks, will any egg hatch? I said, no, just fertile eggs hatch. Again a pause of thought and she said, how do they get fertile? ( this beautiful mother of three has no clue?) So I replied, the rooster mounts the hen and fertilizes the egg. And here it comes, in all seriousness she exclaims, "oh, so the rooster lays the eggs!" I laughed so hard as I tried to fill her in.....

 

[hennible]

 

[sunflour]

My cousin's wife is a beautiful gal, from the city, never exposed to chickens before. I walked her to the shed to see the newly hatched peeps, so she asked, how do you get baby peeps? I replied from the eggs. She thought about this then asks, will any egg hatch? I said, no, just fertile eggs hatch. Again a pause of thought and she said, how do they get fertile? ( this beautiful mother of three has no clue?) So I replied, the rooster mounts the hen and fertilizes the egg. And here it comes, in all seriousness she exclaims, "oh, so the rooster lays the eggs!" I laughed so hard as I tried to fill her in.....

Everybody knows a rooster cannot lay an egg….so a bunny must appear with it..

 

[oldrooster]

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Reminds me of the year my dad lived in CA, he lived most of his life in IN and a guy he met while living there in S.CA wanted to know if he ever saw the Indy 500, my dad said no, he went up for time trials and carb day and some of the qualifications over the years but not to the race. The guy went off on him about he wished he lived in Indiana and he'd go to t every year, it was close to the time of the year for the rose bowl and my dad had tickets for the parade (didn't have the time to get tickets for the game before they sold out or the money for them) and my dad asked his new "buddy" since he lived in Pasadena if he saw the game in person, or at least saw the parade, he said no, my dad said that to him he was a bit of a hypocrite then since he had several years to attend one, or the other if not both, and the first year my dad was in town for it he saw the parade. and that when he lived in Indiana, most of those years he was a minor child, plus lived more than an hours drive from the track, let alone live in the same freaken town like this dude did for the rose bowl, apparently the guy shut up and slipped away pretty fast because of his own fat mouth.