Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[wildeflowers]

jvls1942 wrote:

My wife, an excellent cook..

we were at the county fair in the poultry barn..

A man was doing something with his pretty very white lacy looking doves..

My DW says to the man.. Do you eat them?? He looked like someone just kicked him in the stomach.. I was just as shocked.

Oh, my goodness! This JUST happened to me at a local feed store. I overheard a guy talking about pigeons.

Asked his wife, "So you raise pigeons?"
"Yes, he raises hundreds of them!"
"Oh, that's wonderful. Well, I'm looking for a local processor. Do you raise them for meat?"
"What?"
"Do you eat them?"

LOL, she was shocked. I thought pigeons were also known as squab when gracing the dinner plate. What does someone DO with hundreds of pigeons if they don't eat them?

 

[estpr13]

Death and Dying, Sex and Reproduction, and Where food comes from are not taught in schools because they have always been observed at home on the farm. Now that we are removed from farm life these areas are giving society fits.

If city slickers knew about these rules, perhaps a lot of silly comments would not be made.

Rule number one on a farm: Never get so attached to a farm animal that you cannot either kill and eat it or give it to a neighbor to kill and eat.

Rule Number two: Always feed your dog, never feed the cats. Because the dogs will protect the animals unless they are hungry then they will kill the farm animals to eat. Cats will kill and eat mice and other things that come to eat the feed at night, unless you feed them, then they could care less.

Rule Number three: If your dog kills an animal, and it wasn't hungry; put it down right then. Otherwise you will find a feedlot full of dead bodies and a happy dog. (been there)

Reality sucks... It's a good place to visit, but I don't want to live there. Unfortunately, if you have a farm, you have to live there.

Be gentle, be kind, but do what needs to be done. Give thanks that we don't have to deal with hunger. That, is the ultimate reality.

These rules were taught to me over fifty years ago by family, friends, and neighbors, all saying basicly the same thing. I've eaten pets, killed dogs, and grieved because of them, but it needed to be done.

When someone asks when you are going to eat a pet, they are gently reminding you of reality.

 

[jarcoo0153]

I haved lived in the city my whole life, but I am very close to my 83 yr old grandpa. His parents were immagrants from Czechoslovakia and lived on a farm and raised 9 kids in South Texas. They did everything themselves, and he has always instilled in me that it is better to raise and grow things yourself. Since I was 13 we have always had a garden, and when I was telling a coworker that we grew Black eyed peas, she said: "Don't they grow on trees?" and another coworker responded: "No silly, they have to be dug up like potatoes!"
I was also telling a girl in my Texas History class in college, that I was going to "Cull" one of my ducks because of a broken leg, and this girl said : " How will naming your duck "Cole" fix his leg?" I told her what Cull meant and she didn't believe me that people killed ducks to eat, and finally the professor told her the same thing, and she argued with her too!
I am so thankful that my grandpa took the time to teach me valuable life skills, so that I wouldn't end up like the rest of the uneducated young adults in this country!

 

[funnybirds]

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Well said.

 

[MeatKing]

We raise our own meat chickens here, and one of my best friends won't eat our chicken cause it grosses her out. (So do lots of normal things, our fetilized eggs, cutting up big chunks of meat ect.) She feeds meat to her kids for the protein, but is squemish. So she won't eating anything that we produce

So unfortunatley, she ran into hard times and had no alot of extra food or money. Her being my bff I offer her some chicken, eggs ect. She took and said Thank-you. She also made soup with it and said it tasted great

She may have been converted, if only cause of her circumstances.

Edited to add, she wasn't starving her children or anything like that. Just really tight, between pays, and not eating as healthy as she what usually feeds her kids.

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

I was at a fair a few weeks ago and heard people talking about "malnourished chickens" (Bantams) and neglected and abused/ bad hair day chickens (frizzles)

 

[justbugged]

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OMG

Would this mean my darling Fuzzy is a product of bad chicken parenting by me?

 

[dutchman]

I had been selling eggs to some of my co-workers, So I was asking around to make sure everbody was happy with the eggs they were getting. And one guy replyed that he enjoyed them alot but his wife would not cook the green eggs. becauce she thought that they had spoilded and molded.

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

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OMG

Would this mean my darling Fuzzy is a product of bad chicken parenting by me?

Yes, obviously anything that wasn't shown on television as "a proper chicken" is due to poor raising!

 

[dandelionheart]

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I've had this conversation a few times too. I just tell them my hens are lesbian hens and don't need a rooster.

Imp

I've also had people stumped by the fact that I have eggs but no rooster. I tell them that I ovulate every month whether my husband is around or not... and I think it strange that they haven't figured that part out from health or biology class many many years ago... because they still seem confused by that concept.