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yep as a matter of fact in the sixties you could buy them in the meat counter as stewing hens, but now people are so squeamish,that its ewwwwe i cant eat that ewwwwe, unless its in a fancy package and full of crap I cant pronounce let alone spell, if things get real bad in this country the average American is going to be SOL, i'm glad there are some folks trying learn something like the ones on this site
I'm old enough that I remember seeing the stewing hens, I'm sure we ate a few, when we ran out of homegrown.
You're right, people have certainly gotten silly about what they eat, and have bought into the mass marketing BS. I mention this from time to time, as a good example of absurd things that are sold, and that there is evidently, to my astonishment, a real market for: There are actually frozen PB&J sandwiches, on white bread, with the crusts cut off. And there are actually idiots that buy them! I thought buying naked boneless chicken breast (even if all you ever eat is the breast, you can buy split breasts with the bones and fillet them yourself, at about half the price, and have bones left for soup) was silly enough, but the PB&J's even beat that.
Have you seen the pre-cooked side dishes, like mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, etc? People evidently either don't know how to make this stuff, (how pathetic is that?) or are just too lazy to do it. You'd think that people who are so dependent on technology would think to look up recipes on the internet. I do, fairly often!
Oh well, if a person can't manage to take bread out of a bag and smear peanut butter and jelly on it, all by themselves, I guess something as complex as boiling a potato and mashing it with a bit of milk are completely out of the question. Much less raising food!
